It's clearly become, by admission of the owner, an R party site dedicated to R party advocacy.
Which, I think, is the opposite of 'conservatism', in my analysis.
Jim runs a great piece of software. And I believe he's a patriot, with the best of intentions.
But I think this is how our country has gotten *so* collectivist. *Both* parties are collectivist.
Perhaps I'm out of place here, as a non-R conservative.
There it IS! Maybe "statist" would be a better word, but maybe not... What we have is an arbitrary government.
An omnipotent sovereign parliment, not confined to laying down general rules, means that we have an arbitrary government. What is worse, a government which cannot, even if it wished, obey any principles, but must maintain itself by handing out favours to particular groups. It must buy its authority by discrimination...--F.A. Hayek, Law, Liberty, and Freedom
Many of us differ on the best way to turn this around, or even if that's possible.