Steve’s Barking; Tribal politics

There is no such thing anymore of conservative politics. For that matter there is no such thing as progressive politics. As a young man it was the conservatives who didn’t believe in lowering taxes, but it was the liberals-progressives who would lower the taxes to juice the economy. Prior to President Truman it was the Republicans that were bigger into civil rights then the Democrats. Wasn’t Republican Teddy Roosevelt head of the progressive movement? Didn’t Liberal Democrat President Woodrow Wilson segregate the civil service and if I’m not mistaken just about legalize lynching in the south.
The modern day conservatives/librarians vs the those modern day liberal/progressive seem to have changed places when it comes to funding the arm services prior to WWII conservatives tried to keep military spending down compared with the Roosevelt Democrats.
When one looks at the founding fathers of the United States the ones we called conservatives wanted
our taxes to be high enough to pay our bills, and a strong centralized government.
The liberal (Jeffersonians) wanted a looser form of government and were not that concerned with taxes.
Now getting back to were I started, those who call themselves conservatives or liberal are just part of a tribe that loosely fits into there prejudices and the other tribe or tribes also fit into their prejudices.
None look at the changing landscape of what a liberal or conservative is, if the tribe fits what they preceded to be them they call themselves liberal or conservative and they foolishly call the Democrats liberal and Republicans conservative, throwing in libertarian for not wanting to be part of the new
conservative tribe, or progressive being slightly independent of the liberal tribe.