Back when I was a progressive, the one thing I respected about conservatives was that they generally understood just how fucked up man is. The irony is that they wanted the least amount of government to control the men they understood to be fallen. It's like making sure the leopards eating people's faces had the longest leash humanly possible while understanding that leopards eat people's faces. Our laws should keep the leopards on a short leash--especially the most powerful ones. Instead we worship the leopards and try hard as shit to be just like them because we think we have a chance at becoming leopards some day too. We never will. Not at this rate. Our kids will just lose their faces too.