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  "text": "“Traditions are experiments that worked.”\n\nLouise Perry made a sharp point on Modern Wisdom: Progressives have a huge rhetorical advantage. They can always paint a shiny utopian future that’s never existed, so they never have to defend any real-world failures or trade-offs.\n\nConservatives, on the other hand, end up defending imperfect past cultures and traditions — and immediately get hit with “so you support domestic violence / imperialism / cholera?”\n\nAs Thomas Sowell said: there are no solutions, only trade-offs.\n\nAcknowledging trade-offs is fundamentally conservative — and often deeply unpopular in a world addicted to promises of perfect progress.\n\nI’ve always found this dynamic fascinating. It explains why one side feels perpetually on the defensive while the other gets to play visionary.\n\nWhat do you think — is the “traditions are experiments that worked” framing a stronger way to defend conservative ideas, or do you see it differently?",
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