RE: How Conservatism Killed Democracy
First of all: great post, it reminds me of so much. For example I feel there’s a perfect Reagan campaign slogan as an outline of your idea that conservatives mainly oppose change that threatens to upset the current power hierarchies in society: “ Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
His economic advisor has also spoken the quiet part out loud regarding what trickle-down economics is meant to do: prevent the growth of government during liberal rule by bankrupting government during Republican rule — there will be no way to pay for changes to the power hierarchy if the debt is sufficiently crippling. By the time a Democrat fixes the economy to where social programs cannot be fought with “how will you pay for it?” people will vote against the ruling party because any party in power for 8 years has a hell of a fight to get 4 more.
If you want constructive feedback, i think theres room for more of a transition when going from a list of “against this, against that” to “for x, for y” and in terms of word choice when x in that example contains the word “for” then maybe “supported” is a better antonym for “against” (and you should maybe have a more balanced list e.g. list more than one thing Republicans supported if you are going to list three things they are against).