Conservatives, Quietly Changing

MODERN AMERICAN CONSERVATISM (MAC) ,like everything else, changes continuously, if perhaps a bit slowly. For instance, today's conservatives are not, as a rule, racists! People can and do change. Wonders never cease. If memory serves, every conservative currently running for president denies climate change, as do conservatives in general, which is a problem for them, since climate change is real, is caused by humans, and is happening all around us, even as we speak. So, they (MACs) will soon begin to change, as smoothly and undetectably as possible. The weather changes all the time, with or without humans. Humans are far too small to have any impact on nature, but if they do, its minimal. So go their absurdly outdated arguments. It seems likely that by now they know the truth, and are merely trying to ding a way of coming around to it without anyone remembering how terribly wrong and stupid they were. People like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in particular, with their youth, Harvard educations, and intelligence, deny global warming only because to acknowledge it would undermine so many of their conservative values, such as unlimited economic growth, that to do so would be far too painful. But anyone who understands high school chemistry understands climate change, understands the simple fact that if you put billions of tons of extra carbon in the atmosphere and leave it there, it will effect the atmosphere. Like, duh. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz doubtless understand this, but cannot bring themselves, yet, to accept it and publicly acknowledge it. They must find a way to get to the correct side of the issue, without appearing to have ever been wrong. This is a bit tricky, but it can be done, and if anybody can do it, its slick boys Marco and Ted. In this sense, they are in a serious trap, clinging to a weird, outdated, false but standard Modern American Conservative belief. But give these guys credit. They both are slick as whistles, with their nice hair, pleasant words, and suits and ties. And hell, their still very young, and deserve a chance to improve themselves. They'll find a way, somehow, to accept reality, even if they have to sneak in the back of the house of truth. For the sake of all of us, let's hope they do it sooner rather than later.