Posted on 04/24/2005 12:07:27 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
Wow! I'm shocked and awed!
Why as a 15 year old, I loved Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Elvis Presley and The Big Bopper. That was in 1957. In 1959 I voted for Kennedy, but recovered and was a Goldwater supporter in '64 and never looked back at a Dimocrat.
There's hope I tell you! There's hope! ;)
My views diverge from tradional conservatives, yet I don't accept "libertarian" either.
"South Park Republican" is cool, although it's rather childish sounding. What can we call a Rightist of Calvinist doctrine, pro-American at home and abroad, Constitutional idealistic, viciously anti-Left, and fervently pro-market?
I'm 25, I was a Junior in College on 9-11.
I went to Penn State University in Central PA.
"South Park Republicans" (BIG on free market enterprise, ownership, defense, patriotism, anti-media, but less culturally conservative) ARE real.
They see themselves as the 'irreverent bad boys of conseratism', taking strong stands for capitalism and a strong America as a force of GOOD in the world in an wave of ANTI-PC sentiment. Strangly similar to the 'anti-establishment' crowd, only "big media" and liberals as the 'established' wrong.
They've lived through the PC bull in the most intimate of settings (ie under 18, and then college) and we know its a sham.
At the core they care most about 'freedom' from gov't, personal accountablity, and free enterprise. They are VICIOUSLY anti-nanny state and view most issues wary of that tendancy.
Don't count on them on gay marrage and things like that, but holding the UN accountable, taxes, environmental paranoia, redistrubution of wealth, etc they will be good allies for a long time to come (Since all SPR are pretty much 18-27)
For those who don't get it I simply say my three top values are God, Family, and Country. My politics follow directly from these three.
RileyD, nwJ
That description would be apt. But I shy away from those self-appointed "Constitutionalists" because they use the Constitution as a billy club and they act like know-it-alls.
It is obvious that the Constitution is not being taught in our schools, and hasn't been taught in a long time. Go out and ask 5 random people to name Amendments and what they mean in the Bill of Rights outside of the first, fourth, and fifth. I'd wager that one could do it, maybe two on a good day.
How can people desire to live under that which they don't know? Those who argue loudest from a Constitutional perspective are doing so from a huge disadvantage. And using the Constitution to hammer people over the head is foolish. They are right, but they may as well be wrong. It has the same outcome.
They have conservative views, but aren't so much proponents of conservatism, but more hyper hostile to liberalism.
They are anti-authority, anti-establishment, anti-liberals.
They don't sell the case for conservatism, but they do one hell of a job of burning down the house of liberalism.
It should go without saying, that professors hate them, and acadamia loathes them.
What can we call a Rightist of Calvinist doctrine, pro-American at home and abroad, Constitutional idealistic, viciously anti-Left, and fervently pro-market?
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How about "Nationalist" !!!
To wit: Borders - Language - Culture !!! ;-))
"(Since all SPR are pretty much 18-27)"
I'd increase the age range a bit, as the creators are 33 and 35 years of age, and grew up with and suffered through the same Leftist trope that many of us tail-end Baby Boomers and front-end Gen X'ers did.
I'm forty. I know some that are older.
What led you to vote for Kennedy in 60 and Goldwater in 64? Seem pretty divergent.
You are correct.
SPR is just the new label for what PJ O'Rourke called Republican Party Reptiles. The demographic has been around long enough now to have two names, that means we're getting old, and renewing with another generation.
>>I'm forty. I know some that are older.
<*raises hand*>
let's examine the conclusion of the author about the conservatives haven't won the culture war because kids idolize rap
hello rap and hip hop is the antithesis to what the liberals have claimed to represent
it is misogynist aka anti feminist
it is confirming sexual stereotypes that I thought liberals were trying to do away with
it is confirming racial stereotypes that I thought liberals were trying to do away with
it glorifies materialism in a big way, again something I thought liberals abhorred, glorifies gas guzzling hummers etc, lol
in a nutshell, rap and hip hop are as politically incorrect and irreverent as the South Park cartoon itself, no it doesn't serve the religious/conservative agenda either
so it is perfect, a genre of music representing teenage rebellion because it will upset all parents, left and right, black and white
actually I think I may be onto something, I just realized that
You got it. Both my sons are "South Park conservatives" in their early twenties.
Political correctness' days are numbered once my generation dies off.
That is an interesting observation.
"South Park Republicans" (BIG on free market enterprise, ownership, defense, patriotism, anti-media, but less culturally conservative) ARE real."
Just to reinforce your point Dennis Miller showed up on the Daily Show and described himself as a libertarian and specifically said he wasn't a social conservative.
He dominated his 15 minute spot. Jon Stuart couldn't get a word in edgewise partly because he was laughing too hard and Miller didn't leave a single gap in the conversation.
It was one of Miller's best performances. Very funny.
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