[bigbob]

You don’t need 10:

Smaller government, few regulations, individual liberty, and a strong national defense.

If that was good enough for Rush it should be good enough for the rest of us.

[EdgeOfDarkness]

You absolutely need number 10. It is the balance between stagnation and decline, and chaos and anarchy. By reading this article you should have picked up that most of these thoughts require balance.

Conservatives abhor instability, unpredictability, and chaos. Wherever possible we crave consistency, predictability, stability, and peace. But we are not naive enough to believe change will not come. We prefer mostly steady, predictable, limited changes realizing that some changes are inevitable and change societies rapidly.

The devil you know and can live with or the devil you don't know and the risk of collapse and ruin (at both the personal level and the community level)

[EdgeOfDarkness]

You absolutely need number 10. It is the balance between stagnation and decline, and chaos and anarchy. By reading this article you should have picked up that most of these thoughts require balance.

Conservatives abhor instability, unpredictability, and chaos. Wherever possible we crave consistency, predictability, stability, and peace. But we are not naive enough to believe change will not come. We prefer mostly steady, predictable, limited changes realizing that some changes are inevitable and change societies rapidly.

The devil you know and can live with or the devil you don't know and the risk of collapse and ruin (at both the personal level and the community level)