Caucasian is beautiful. All lives matter.
“The next time Mark Levin or Ted Cruz, or Bill Kristol...any number of pundits in media or on Free Republic try to shame you, tell them to take a hike.”
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Okay, but can I tell them something more...colorful?
“Conservative Orthodoxy has become a whore, drunk on our blood and travails.”
I’ve thought that for years! If what we’ve seen of “so-called conservatism” in recent years is what is really is, it needs to go, and be replaced with populism or whatever it is that you call what Trump is selling. Conservatism only works for the crony capitalists today. The Dow isn’t a measure of how average people are doing, it’s just a barometer for the rich.
I’ll not budge one inch on Sodomitic “marriage” because it violates the Natural Law on which not just this society but every society is based.
However, there were a lot of “conservative” positions that just didn’t make sense anymore, and it’s about time a Republican realized it. If “strong military” means being involved in senseless conflicts throughout the globe count me out. If “pro-business” means letting the big banks charge the American taxpayer for their losses, or allowiung illegals to pour in and “do the jobs Americans won’t do” then stuff that.
No way to put “Free Trade” back in the bottle, Mariner.
Business owners and consumers from almost every country in the world can compare prices and product quality in milliseconds.
And, the pay scale for low and medium skill labor, in EVERY country, has peaked, and will stagnate or decline for decades into the future.
Trump and the “new” Conservatives are fighting the last economic war.
The next war will be “our” robots and business/engineering software against “their” robots and business/engineering software.
Most of the conservative movement has been co-opted by Davos-style, transnational neoliberalism.
This is whay the mini-cons at NR and Weekly Standard strongly prefer $hillary to Trump.
Oh, I love this thread....and the comments. Thx everybody.
I must dispute your central statement.
I do not believe that conservative orthodoxy is dead. What we have seem in the past few decades is NOT conservatism. What we saw last night is, I believe, the rebirth of conservatism. Law and order, justice, equality, equality before the law, fairness, good business practices, security, strong military, protect and take care of own.