Commentary: Conservatives need to wake up & see the threat.
“Social” and “fiscal” issues the same to those out to destabilize society.
When the radical homosexual organizations and the “Occupy” movement team up to brutally stop a Tea Party rally, what else do you need to know? They are clearly natural allies in the effort to destabilize our society.
A vocal minority of Tea Party people in Massachusetts were skittish and upset when the Tea Party Coalition decided to include so-called “social issues” in their repertoire of topics for that event. “It will hurt our brand” or “it will alienate people” or “it’s not what the Tea Party is about” were some whines we all heard.
Well, guess what? They rioters see it all as one big movement. They understand that “social issues” and “fiscal issues” are two sides of the same coin that can radically change America. (And of course, that’s how every philosopher from Marx to Jefferson saw it, because it is so.) A nation’s fiscal policies are merely the product of its overall morality and ideology. To have a solid constitutional government along with a population that can’t control its passions or morality is simply a pipe dream.
(In fact, the rioters jeered Carla Howell, a fiscal-issues-only Libertarian speaker — who took pains to inform them she is pro-gay marriage! — just as loudly that day!)
But more importantly, this event should make it clear that as soon as the Tea Party — or anyone — gets in the radicals’ way, this is what will happen. These people have no rules except to destroy those who disagree with them. You think you can agree with them on “gay rights” but disagree with them on taxes? Think again. With these people it’s all or nothing. And so it should also be with those who are fighting for what’s right.
http://massresistance.com/docs/gen2/12b/tea_party_0415/commentary.html
Good article. The GOP civil war that is brewing is exactly what the Democrats want and as many problems I have neocons and other moderate types is it worth the infighting with the country in real peril? We’re waiting for that 100% pure conservative and he or she isn’t out there. Conservatives are fighting amongst themselves and this resulted in Romney getting the presidential nomination last year after Gingrich and Santorum cancelled each other out. I don’t how we heal the rift but I know one thing for sure the other side is dangerous and fatal to our country’s future and finding common cause with them is a useless gesture at this point.
“Social conservativsm” is another term for right wing statism.
No thanks. Go find another place to enlarge government
Yes, no one talks of the fiscal/social liberal divide.
There is one but it doesn’t matter either.
I’ve always found both fiscal and social conservatism to be intrisically related. They should fit hand-in-glove. When one is missing, it’s like a vacuum. And that vacuum always gets filled by creeping liberalism.
Over and over again, I’ve been taught to be wary of any so-called “conservative” who just fits one side of that coin. It always winds up in disaster.
Prager is guilty of over simplification here, and there is just no getting around that. There is no magic switch that secular conservatives can flip so that they suddenly believe in a God. I know, I number myself among them. I would love to be able to believe that I’m in possession of an immortal soul, and that I don’t “really” have more days behind me than in front of me. However, no amount of want turns the skepticism off and allows me to believe.
It’s equally, if not more so, foolhardy to expect those without religious beliefs to embrace anyway.
And Ron Paul libertarians need not apply.
"America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own."
--John Quincy Adams
Another article that is a covert attack on Social Conservatives
Fiscal Conservatives are neither
The GOP loses elections pushing Free Trade Communism, going soft on Illegal Aliens, and attacking Christian Conservatives. None of those are anywhere near conservative ideas.
Strong social conservative values bring out the conservative base.