[rabscuttle385]

Statists of all stripes—whether they be liberal, conservative, or just plain nuts—are thoroughly dangerous.

[SoConPubbie]

Statists of all stripes—whether they be liberal, conservative, or just plain nuts—are thoroughly dangerous.

Careful Rabscuttle, you run the risk of being thoroughly misunderstood unless you explain yourself.

What do you mean by trying to classify conservatives as statists?

[fnord]

I think “social conservatives” are elitists rather than statists, i.e. statists are a subset of elitists. Elitists all want to rule from above and keep the masses down below. Statists prefer to use the government to do this (and they are quite successful). Other elitists might prefer to use a religious tome or the ravings of a megalomaniac. Some combine all three, ha.

They all have the same goal, some just use different playbooks.

By the same tokern, the Libertarian party is as much “libertarian” as the Republicans are “republican” or the Democrats are “democratic”. All parties exist to advance their version of elitism.

And anybody who confuses the Republicans with conservatives is not very observant.