Report me. Ping Jim Rob and tell him what I'm saying. I'm pretty sure, pal, he can point you to DOZENS of his own threads that remind libs this is a pro-God, pro-Family site.
I dont care what he reminded people of, he didnt stipulate that YOU can amend his statement to include whatever pet issue where you want to be shut down reasonable discussion.
Dont get some insane idea that the sides on this topic are Conservative Vs. Liberal, because I can tell you from the times I’ve talked about this with actual liberals, and libertarians, the views do not fall where you assume they do.
We disagree. I understand your position. I think you understand mine.
Libertarianism in some of its positions is a purely conservative thing. In some other manifestations (National Defense) it is abjectly liberal. So, one must pick and choose.
For example, legalization of pot could be looked at as a Federalism issue, and a states as laboratories of democracy opportunity. That’s reasonable. We can see how it works in Washington, and proliferate (or not) the policy based on its effect.
Freedom includes the freedom to do stupid things. That’s a pretty conservative position.
So, we disagree. Fine. We can both be on FR with our 95% agreement on everything else, and find that our perspective on conservatism differs in this one area, and not have to be peeved or use lots of bold capital letters.
:-)
The fact that there are regularly anti-pot prohibition threads at FR that don’t get pulled suggests to me that Jim Robinson is not quite as reactionary on the subject as you are.