Wow. Then I guess those few thousand years we’ve spent figuring out what conservative values are just don’t count. Because according to you, being “conservative” now is redefined to mean, “Yes, I blindly believe and accept as holy and righteous all that is done by my government.” Well shucks, I’ve got a lot of editing to do. All this time I thought being conservative meant being for the respect of the inalienable individual rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as enshrined in our Declaration and embodied in our Constitution. Who’d have thought that today I’d wake up to learn that being pro-life, pro-liberty, pro-second amendment, pro-small/focused/constitutional government, pro-free market, pro-strong defense, pro-immigration law enforcement, pro-family, pro-traditional marriage, pro-parental rights, etc. etc. and whatever else has heretofore been mistakenly associated with being conservative, who’d have thought I’d find out that none of that has anything to do with being conservative, that really, thanks to you, we now know it all revolves on a single point - do I trust my government implicitly and without question. Thanks. Thanks for that. Just made my life so much simpler. Now, where’d I put that koolaid ....
>> [...] according to you, being “conservative” now is redefined to mean, “Yes, I blindly believe and accept as holy and righteous all that is done by my government.”
Pretty sure that’s not what I said, chief. I said nothing referring to “all [...] that is done by my government”. I spoke specifically about 9-11 trutherism — no conservative patriot can be a truther, its as simple as that. Her answer revealed a troubling truth about the premise from which she is operating, and it is a “progressive”, not a conservative, premise.
>> Who’d have thought that today I’d wake up to learn that being pro-life, pro-liberty, pro-second amendment, pro-small/focused/constitutional government, pro-free market, pro-strong defense, pro-immigration law enforcement, pro-family, pro-traditional marriage, pro-parental rights, etc. etc. and whatever else has heretofore been mistakenly associated with being conservative.
Those remain tenets of conservatism. One can, apparently, believe those things and still spread enemy propaganda.
“Trutherism” is aid and comfort to terrorists — it is an international fringe movement composed of radical leftists, conspiracy theorists, and terrorist sympathizers with the sole aim of blaming 9/11 on America and Americans. To me, it is functional the equivalent of Holocaust denial. If she entertains the possibility that anti-American enemy propaganda may be “truth”, she’s on the wrong side.
>> who’d have thought I’d find out that none of that has anything to do with being conservative, that really, thanks to you, we now know it all revolves on a single point - do I trust my government implicitly and without question.
That’s also not what I said. “Questioning your government” is great, but all “questions” are not created equal. Some questions are stupid. “Truther” questions are deserving of ridicule.
Entertaining the lies about this country spread by muslim fanatics and wacko leftists is not a hallmark of conservative thought, and not a trait I value in a leader. Like I said — “trutherism” is the intellectual equivalent of Holocaust denial ... she is participating or giving weight to the propaganda of anti-Americans.
She’s done.
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