Your certitude about us should baffle me but it doesn’t. The unquestioning attitudes so many liberals have about anything conservative smacks of preconceived notions literally hard-wired in your neurons.

One of the fundamental differences between libs and cons is that conservatives are unwilling to chuck what’s currently working well just to experience “the latest new, trendy thing” without true critical examination and testing.

Having a “free mind,” as you describe below does not exclude having a mind that is disciplined which is something that distinguishes most conservatives from liberals.

Even then, when something new appears to be worth adopting, we will do so only while we run it in tandem with the associated elements to be replaced in our current system, much as IT professionals do when they convert from an older operating system or application to a new one. They are unwilling to go whole hog into the new system without a fail-safe backup still running successfully when bugs in the new system emerge, which they always do despite rigorous testing beforehand.

Simply put, we hold down the fort to which you can retreat after running off half-cocked to experience something new that turns out to be fatally flawed or inhospitable to some uncomfortable degree.

We provide the adult supervision while you all go out and play.

Be glad that we don’t raise the fort’s drawbridge after you sally forth in your routinely fevered stampedes.

Does this sound a little like how the liberal machine in Congress charged headlong into making housing available for everyone by chucking tested and proven credit qualification criteria for getting a mortgage?

It sure does to me.