“How has voting for people who wear their social conservatism on their sleeves worked out for you?”
I got Louie Gohmert as my elected Congressman.
Go look him up and see if you can do better.
If you think you can, I would love to see the evidence.
And yet he is a champion of the imperial war state which has beggared the country and damaged our national security; a champion of the prison-industrial complex which has the US leading the world in prisoners per capita; votes for military assistance to the fascist government in Kiev; supports militarization of police; votes for secret courts; supported a law that allows Obama to indefinitely detain American citizens; voted for line-item veto which surrenders a great deal of Congressional power to the President; votes for continuing the PATRIOT Act (and all its unconstitutional surveillance provisions); votes for all these "free trade" deals that aren't very free trade at all; votes for agricultural subsidies; voted for Head Start; and more.
And again, he's well above average for the kind of "social conservative" we've been voting into office. Possibly even in the top 5 percent overall.
It's like knowing someone who is a perfect father, loving husband, productive employee who gives generously to charity, attends church every Sunday... and has a freezer in his basement full of body parts.
We've been getting nothing from "social conservatives". Decades of voting for these guys and everything has gone in the wrong direction, because they're highly flawed and incomplete as conservatives.
What we need are the real deal: Constitutional conservatives... and on that score, Gohmert is kind of meh at best.
If you want to conserve America, everything starts with restoring the Constitution. Not bombing Iran, not wealth-stripping trade deals, not secret courts and secret police and throwing people into jail for smoking weed and keeping troops in Afghanistan and Iraq long past any rationale for keeping them there, and not consistently, time after time, where the rubber really meets the road, voting for the budgets that fund all the things that a social conservative tells you on the campaign trail that he opposes.