Posted on 06/11/2022 9:29:56 AM PDT by A Cyrenian
Are we now a minority in this country?
May need more muggings.
A very vocal minority gets the majority of press time
No. Most people are conservative. The liberals want you to think they are the majority but they are not.
Not even close... But the media has made them think so.
We have ALWAYS been a minority.
The fact that we have any influence at all is because we have the highest voter turn out (until 2020 anyway) and the most courageous rank and file activists.
In terms of economics, no. Most people are not Socialists. They don’t want their stuff taken away. However, most people do support some level of support for working/poor people.
I think that support for Big business, especially multinational business is fading fast, even among conservatives. We have been thrown under the bus too many times.
In terms of social behavior, yes. Most people even if they are conservative have decided it’s not worth the cost to speak out if it doesn’t affect them personally.
Depends on how you define “conservative”, but yes, and have been for a very long time. It’s not new.
Reagan won his two terms not because most Americans were conservative, but because because Carter was horribly incompetent, and Reagan's policies brought prosperity to the country, and he was charismatic, so they reelected him.
And what did we get immediately after Reagan? A much more.moderatw Republican who have a backhanded slam against Reagan by promising a "kinder, gentler" America. How could a true conservative majority manage to not nominate somebody more conservative than Bush??
The issue is not what your philosophy is, but how effectivrly you practice it. A person with no voice in his/her LOCAL party operation that determines who goes on the primary or election ballot for each local polling place has little or no effect om the outcome.
Were Christians a minority for the first 300 years? Does that matter?
Were bolsheviks a minority during the revolution....yes too.
The fact that few “conservatives” still argue that Soc Sec and Medicare are not allowed by the Constitution shows that at best we have a Tory-like residue of Conservatism in place.
There are more registered Republicans then Democrats in Florida. It used to be the other way around.
Conservatives by nature will always follow the law. And the one time conservatism was the official "religion" during the Reagan administration it was the bowlderized version of the neocons.
They do not control who gets nominated. If they did, Reagan would never have won the nomination in 1980 because Bush, not Reagan, was the establishment favorite. Nor would Trump have been able to win the nomination in 2016 because the establishment despised him, and still does.
Anyway, I simply do not believe that a majority of Americans think that men can get pregnant, or that drag shows are appropriate for kids, or any of the other outrageous things that the left is treating as loyalty tests.
There is a truly massive middle ground between being a conservative, and supporting the radical progressive agenda items you just listed. I would agree with you that most Americans are not radical progressives, and do not support that agenda. But I disagree with you that they are majority conservative, and consistently support conservative candidates and principles.
It's possible that conservatives are the largest single faction between conservatives, moderates, and progressives. But we are not a majority.
Depends how you define conservative. Some divine your “conservativeness” through a bizarre and distorted filter. Some seem to measure conservatism by absolute belief in every nutcase conspiracy theory they believe. If you only consider traditional conservatism, as in family values, individual freedoms, personal accountability, strong work ethic, and general Judeo-Christian values, I think we have a majority. But it’s shrinking and being watered down.
Some Judeo-Christian traditions, like a God centered education are almost gone, but a person can be a conservative and still support secular education. A conservative can even be an agnostic or atheist, and still be a conservative.
If you whittle down the definition of conservatism to “people who think just like me”, you will always be a tiny minority.
Unless everyone can agree on a definition of “conservative”, this is an entirely pointless question.
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Exactly. Americans are increasingly fleeing from God and his word. That my friends is the issue. We’re are Founding Fathers Christian, staunch believers? Yes.
I maintain that to be a “ Conservative “ one must have a strong belief in Christianity. The very least of which is knowing the minimum requirements: the Ten Commandments. I am posting a Conservative’s minimum requirements:
1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 “You shall not murder.
7 “You shall not commit adultery.
8 “You shall not steal.
9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
God almighty in his wisdom issued these basic rules for mankind to flourish. Any deviation from the “ rules” results in exactly what we are seeing today.
I am troubled deeply by Freepers growing non belief, they are neither Conservatives nor Christians.
There are more non-Americans than Americans in the U.S. today. The U.S. is no longer a melting pot. It’s now the world’s septic tank.
First of all, you have to rely on the candidates you have, and not on imaginary ideal candidates that don't exist.
Secondly, Bush had name recognition and had good relations with donors, politicians, and party officials.
Third, there was a feeling that Reagan had fixed things and the country could go on from their in it's usual way.
I don't think there is a solid conservative majority in the country now.
It's not like the 1960s or 1970s when it was everybody against a small radical or progressivist fringe.
But also, even a conservative country isn't always going to vote for the most conservative candidate.
That's why third party candidates, who are often more conservative than Republicans, never win.
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