“You hit the very reason that conservatives will never be able to turn the country back around. They can’t work together. In fact, they are openly hostile toward each other most of the time.”
With true liberty and freedom comes independent thinking and action. True conservatives value the ability to think, speak, and act as an individual, not simply participate in group think, group speak, and enforced group actions.
Progressives can present a unified front because in their philosophy the individual is subservient to the group. Progressives must “submit” in order to belong. By submitting they accept the role of slave to the lifestyle requirement of the group. True conservative lovers of liberty relish the ability to be independent actors. Hence they exercise their freedom to disagree, no matter who they disagree with. They have the will and fortitude to reject slavery and chart their own paths. Therefore it is difficult to engage them in group efforts. Developing a consensus among for cooperative action among free people is difficult, messy, and often not possible.
That is why I have always dreamed of a Congress that went to Washington DC and did absolutely nothing year after year in perpetuity. Instead each member arrives newly minted with a desire to make their mark by each new hair-brained scheme they can come up with to the determent of us all.
George Washington's cabinet included four original members: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.Every other Governmental Department should never have existed.