You can support the candidate who'll promise everything to everyone with only negligible differences between his/her opponent, and I'll support the candidate who's able to draw a sharp contrast and is confident that his beliefs are the right approach.
We'll see who wins.
I never suggested promising everything to everyone.
I do advocate our elected leaders at least reflect the values of the majority, even if the majority has come t a different conclusion that I have.
Conservatives like the federal system because they like the idea that states should decide many policy positions. We are right in that respect. But there are many, many cases where those states are going to tell conservatives and their values to go to hell. It’s called losing. Under that setup, we will win many times and lose many times. That’s fine with me, it’s the nature of the social contract.
Will stick up the arse conservatives take rejection and defeat as well as stick up the arse liberals take rejection and defeat?? From what I see on FR, my guess is ‘yes.’
And that really sucks.