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Article: A conservative country examines its values.
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- December 23, 1996
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As the pendulum of political fortune has swung from left to right and back again, the genius of America has been that its people have found ways to reform the causes of provocation and injustice.
I often think it's comical, how nature does contrive," declares one of the immortal songs from Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. "That ev'ry boy and ev'ry gal/That's born into the world alive/Is either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative!" And what was true for the English comic opera duo in 1882 is no less true for America today Indeed, Gilbert and Sullivan might have added that it's true for generations, too: some a little bit conservative (and sometimes more ...