RE: Are Republicans Conservative?
July 17, 2015 at 7:50 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2015 at 7:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Conservatism, held at arms length and assessed only for what it is by it;ls own claim, implies that one should resist change. That's really all there is to it. They seek to -conserve- traditional institutions and conceptions.
The rest is just branding. A conservative can easily be pro-war, pro big government, con civil liberty, pro increased domain, con secularism. All they need to do is point to a tradition of any of these things, and there's no shortage on any count, and they;ve satisfied the basic meaning of the term "conservative". Our parties, btw, have essentially "switched places"...more than once. Used to be that the democrats were the corporate whoring busybodies. The republican party was once the party of the "little man".......Just saying.....
It's so pronounced, that my bigoted grandfather, a lifelong republican -and- deep, deeeeeeep racist....voted for a democrat for the first time in his life.....in Barack Obama......mull that shit over.
The rest is just branding. A conservative can easily be pro-war, pro big government, con civil liberty, pro increased domain, con secularism. All they need to do is point to a tradition of any of these things, and there's no shortage on any count, and they;ve satisfied the basic meaning of the term "conservative". Our parties, btw, have essentially "switched places"...more than once. Used to be that the democrats were the corporate whoring busybodies. The republican party was once the party of the "little man".......Just saying.....
It's so pronounced, that my bigoted grandfather, a lifelong republican -and- deep, deeeeeeep racist....voted for a democrat for the first time in his life.....in Barack Obama......mull that shit over.
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