Conservatism gone since '61
In response to the assertion that "conservatism does work" (Readers' Forum, May 1), I ask, how do we know? We haven't seen conservatism in the White House since 1961. The party that claims conservatism today certainly hasn't practiced it. The last three Republican presidents, all or individually, have spent stupidly, attacked a Caribbean country with the population of Provo, fabricated justification for war in Iraq, grabbed at the powers of a "unitary executive," sold weapons to an enemy to finance a revolution in a third country, spent drunkenly on a war rather than on energy self-sufficiency and seized for the federal government powers that should belong to the states, such as educational oversight. And our "conservative" state legislators are too reactionary to be what I would call conservative.
Real conservatism might work — if it were actually tried.
Dave Wilson
Saratoga Springs
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