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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is a joke built on a physical image. A conservative, the quote says, has two perfectly good legs yet never learned to walk forward. It's a pointed jab at resisting change, portraying that outlook as unwilling to move even though nothing is stopping it.
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