About 20 years ago, I wrote
Rochester is a curious blend of progressive conservatism.
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Steven McIntire Allen
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Some Americans thought that oxymoronic. After an unpleasant experience in Pittsford with a homophobe in what used to be the Bill Wahl's parking lot, I reconsidered. I suspected that I was wrong. Now I realise I was wrong. I was right.
I have never made a mistake except that one time when I thought I was wrong. I was right.
Bradley Moore Allen
I was speaking with a young person recently. She had very traditional ideas. She's a conservative. Nonetheless, her conservative ideology was well grounded in liberal democratic philosophy. Ideas defined by and often associated with John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine and Alexis de Tocqueville (two of my favourites). Apparently, I was wrong. I was right. Yes, Virginia, there really is a conservative liberal democratic philosophy.
