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That is the tension between: history as informant and the rationalistic approach of ideas being useful for their own sake. Jefferson\'s ennunication of the inalieanable rights or man is a wonderful ideal which has been pursued throughout political history, so much so that modern history has been one of the battle for increasing suffrage and rights. Enough that we have been inching closer and closer to pure universalism in liberalism and libertarianism.

I dont accept that conservatism and progressivism is a binary choice, as both can be used to inform superior outcomes in a situation. Human affairs are messy and context often decides the effectiveness of an approach or idea. The ideals in Jefferson\'s summation of the enlightenment or Deniehy\'s equation tyranny as the main impediement to moral virtue gain value, if anything, as human progress adopts a more liberalistic stance. Their philosphy gains in credence with changing circumstance.

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