The sad thing about modern liberalism is that it is
driven mostly by reaction, not by what actually creates social good.
You can't put that only at the door of liberalism, it's true for all
parties in politics now. It's even wider, arguably. Business, as well as
politics, is based on such short-term perceptions that people are afraid of
investing anything in the long term because they might become losers in a
very reactionary race to gain advantage as things change faster than they
ever have before. Considering this in electronics (in a vague attempt to
steer to topic), companies like Yamaha, developing their FM synthesis over
10 years, ended up cashing in, releasing variants of their own work, and
others, in a bid to try to please a mercurial market. If people want
instant gratification from manufacturers and politics alike, they tend to
get what they want. I'm not even going to try to say whether something so
complex is 'good' or 'bad', but I do say that to lay the blame at the door
of whoever is deemed 'the opposition' is a tad silly.
