<img attachment="us_and_them.jpg" align="right"><bq source="Crooked Timber" caption="Comment on 'The travesty of liberalism'" author="Frank Wilhoit" date="03.22.18">Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.</bq> We have chosen this because we all think we're in the in-group, or that we will soon be in the in-group. We do not care about the out-group because we all egotistically and absolutely immorally believe that we are only <iq>temporarily embarrassed</iq> out-groupers (to steal part of a quote from John Steinbeck<fn>). <hr> <ft>The quote is here, but it's disputed and seems to have been a paraphrase of a very similar phrase from an article. <bq source="Wikiquote" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed">Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.</bq></ft>