You make some good points, especially if FR is meant primarily for social conservatives. ... This may sound kind of uninformed on my part, but I hadn’t really picked up on the fact that FR is strictly a socon site, I’d figured it for just “con” up until this week, though I’d certainly noted early on that libertarian thought is met with scorn by many freepers.
***Sam, I’m pinging JimRob not because I want to get you in trouble, but to ask him to put that socon stuff prominently on the front page of the website rather than as a click-through. People like you have been here for 5 years and didn’t realize they were on a socon site. I’ve run into some people that cross the line & denigrate social conservatism and nothing happens to them because socons want to play nice, but eventually enough is enough. It should really be clear on the front page, that might help to avoid some conflagrations in the future.
FR is a conservative site. We are not one or the other, we are both fiscally AND socially conservative.
FR is Pro-God, Pro-family, pro-liberty, pro-constitution, pro-capitalism, pro-defense, pro-small (constitutionally limited) government and pro-constitutionally limited taxing and spending, etc.
I believe the federal government should be stripped down to only those functions enumerated and authorized for it in the constitution. If we truly need a new department or function in the federal government, then a constitutional amendment should be proposed, debated, enacted and ratified first. And as Americans will reject most proposed amendments out of hand, that would automatically prohibit all of the unconstitutional socialist clap trap that the liberals/progressives/socialists et al have either legislated in or unconstitutionally adjudicated in via the liberal activist judiciary.
The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. We need to get back to original intent.
Think about it.