Review: 'Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World' Inspiring Profile. He said, "The vision of the Left — and I think many conservatives underestimate this — is really a more attractive vision. The only reason for not believing in it is that it doesn’t work."

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The difference is quite simple:

Socialists believe leaders can and should engineer human behavior (v.Soviet Union/China by force,v.US/Europe by bribery/coercion) to create "a beautiful society".

Conservatives (who in truth are far rarer than the number of people who use the name) believe if you leave individuals to make individual decisions - with limits only on those individuals directly harming other individuals (e.g. violence or theft) - society will come to the best possible solution without any overall plan at all.

The conservative side has no collective vision, and this is precisely our problem. It's hard to sell people on "Make your own vision a reality within your own sphere" when the left is selling them this amazing Disneyworld of everybody being equal and treating each other with kindness and light. They grab the imagination and run with it. Our side tells us we have to work for any positive we wish to witness. Theirs says they will take care of it for us.

Youth goes for the superficially beautiful because they haven't lived long enough to see the ugly face behind the mask (we all have that face). And everyone goes for the "Let them do it" aspect of it, because humans (like all animals) always try to take the "easier" path offered.

So few see that what appears so easy is actually by far the harder route.