Stepping Back from the Precipice ... & Towards It

A good (and my favourite) working definition of a Conservative, first encountered by me many many moons ago as a poli sci student dipping into a British book of readings on the subject, is someone who steps back when they find a precipice at their feet.

Some of us are conservatives by instinct.  Others learn to be so by experience.

One of the latter, to whom I suppose the term "mugged liberal" applies, is the man in this new PragerU.com video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiVQ8vrGA_8):

                                      
To quote the uploader:

"Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report used to be a big progressive. He even had a show with The Young Turks! But now he's not a progressive. He has left the left. Why? Dave Rubin shares his story."  Donate today to PragerU: http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h

Some, by contrast, seem hell-bent on opening up that precipice and falling right in, taking all that they should hold dear along with them.

British blogger Edgar Davidson gives an example of potential precipice plungers:

 Read his post with its links here