Changing Over Time

IF YOU WERE TO jump into a time machine and land in 1967 America, you might notice, if you stayed long enough, that conservatives considered Martin Luther King a trouble maker, at best, and someone deserving of imprisonment at worst. That's all changed now, of course. Even though King was a socialist, especially late in his life, the cons are still on board, because they'v nowhere else to go, and retain their humanity. There was a time when the American democratic party had southern conservatives, and the republican party had northeastern liberals. Now, the two parties have realigned stricty on ideological grounds, which is partly why half the nation is at the throat's of the other half, and they (we) can't get anything done in Congress. Modern conservatives are more liberal, in some ways, than they were fifty years ago, as society creeps inexorably to the left: fifty years ago conservatives wanted nothing to do with gay marriage, or gay people, or anyone who considered gay people healthy normal people. And now? Just look at 'em go! Gay marriage, MLK, marijuana, sex on television. Liberalsim seems to be prevailing in all the right ways!