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Conservatives Must Build Their Own Culture or Be Exiles Inside Their Own Society
Townhall.com ^ | June 4, 2018 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 06/04/2018 1:10:36 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: who_would_fardels_bear

But to be blunt, that isnt the world’s problem.

Either make it work or suck it up.


61 posted on 06/04/2018 8:12:58 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: AndyJackson
but otherwise law-abiding immigrant has little collective impact,

You see right there you go off the rails. Legal immigration has been hurting Americans and lowering wages for decades. Same with import dumping and no tariff. Look a the H-1b visa program. This is why IMO co called libertarians are dangerous and need to be fought tooth and nail.

62 posted on 06/04/2018 8:41:27 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

I go off the rails? You missed my point and conflate your view of what libertarians hold, a position that I carefully disagreed with, with what I hold.

We are, I think, in agreement on this one.


63 posted on 06/04/2018 9:10:36 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Kaslin

bump


64 posted on 06/04/2018 9:36:56 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: AndyJackson

Sorry I didn’t have time to read your whole past. I should have waited to respond. O the joys of Freeping and working at the same time. So I have finished with it and I agree with it. But I am confused: are you saying that libertarians, that believe in “free trade” and open immigration, are somehow conservatives too?


65 posted on 06/04/2018 10:12:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va
are you saying that libertarians, that believe in “free trade” and open immigration, are somehow conservatives too?

No I am not. This is the problem with labels rather than actual positions. There are conservatives whose view is that the power of the state should be used to enforce "conservative" social values rather than leftist social values. Classic liberals believe that the state should just stay out of the lawful business of its lawful citizens and define their lawful business rather broadly.

What I am arguing is that the attempt to pin the free and open immigration plank on all self-described libertarians is wrong. Classic liberal liberatrians take nations, citizenship and the rights that go with it seriously. Most libertarians believe in defending borders and national sovereignty against all incursions, not just armed incursions.

For instance I would argue that the American social contract is our Constitution and the British common law that underlies that constitution. Individual liberty is not consistent with the open immigration of 100,000,000 people whose avowed purpose is to live at peace under our laws until such time as they can vote in Sharia law. Any libertarian who signs up for that is going to meet his just Darwinian fate.

66 posted on 06/04/2018 10:32:08 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson
Most libertarians believe in defending borders and national sovereignty against all incursions, not just armed incursions.

I know quite few libertarians, and they all couldn't care less about illegal or legal immigration for that matter. Rush Limbaugh, what I consider the quintessential Libertarian parading as a conservative, pays lip service to the border and immigration but legal immigration is not his his thing. He has NEVER mentioned H-1b visa abuse on his show that I know of for example. He's been carrying the water for the globalist free traders for decades. There are other tell issues that Rush ignores.

67 posted on 06/04/2018 11:00:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: goldstategop

“You bleed the same on duty no matter how you live your private life.”

Utterly irrelevant. You’ve been in CA too long.

Faggotry has morphed from the vice that dare not speak its name to the vice that won’t shut up. Same-sex attraction disorder is a serious illness. It can’t be compartmentalized. It always spills over into other areas. There is no place in the military for anyone who suffers from SSAD. Or in any other area of life, for that matter.

“Conservatives have a different view. Your values and how you live them, is your business.”

That is not a conservative view. That is a libertarian-left position. A conservative view discerns good from evil, healthy from depraved, right from wrong.

Fudge-packing is evil. It is depraved. It is wrong.


68 posted on 06/04/2018 11:54:09 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: goldstategop
I always thought the ban on gays serving in the military made no sense because I have a libertarian view that what consenting adults do in the bedroom is no one else’s business.

Soldiers live in barracks, and other tight quarters - not in bedrooms. In spite of strong proscriptions against sexual deviancy in the military, homos will eventually act on their impulses anyway, which is bad for troop morale.

Rules of conduct in the military aren't arbitrary. They arose from centuries of war fighting experience, and most are designed to save lives and to maintain a better fighting force than our enemies.

69 posted on 06/04/2018 11:54:57 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Qiviut

You are correct in all particulars, but I am still angry with Normal Americans.

Normal Americans should have figured this out in the 1980s. I want to call them a name, but I just can’t come up with anything that both lauds them for being Normal and chides them for being late to the party.


70 posted on 06/04/2018 11:59:19 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: EdnaMode

“Her entire popular vote margin came in California.”

Please remember voter fraud. If valid votes only were counted, Trump would win by several million.

Accepting their figures is endorsing their crimes.


71 posted on 06/04/2018 12:02:37 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: bert
Hillary won the popular vote. There are more of them than of us.

I don't believe either one of those claims.

Liberals appear to be more numerous and more powerful than they really are, because they control so many of our key institutions. They're also experts at vote fraud.

If they're as numerous as you suggest, they shouldn't have lost over 1,400 state and federal elections since 2010.

72 posted on 06/04/2018 12:10:15 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Kaslin
For a change I can't agree with Schlichter. We have a culture, an astoundingly successful one. The issue is that it is being actively repressed and systematically plundered, and the necessary corrective is to defend it on its own terms. "We build it, they steal it" hasn't worked, and won't.

We need to confront that nonsense, hard, and raise the cost of liberal virtue signaling high enough that they will think twice before trying it.

Now that we can do, and the weapon is ridicule, because political correctness has become self-parody and its practitioners have become jokes from being humorless. The roles of the 70's have become reversed, and the mighty Counterculture is now the dull, smothering, totalitarian Establishment, just as some of us predicted lo those many years ago. They're Andropov-style enforcers trying to crush samizdat, and it isn't going to work.

It could get bloody, though, or more properly bloodier than now, because people who have seized power tend not to want to relinquish it. Embrace the struggle. You might as well, else it embraces you.

73 posted on 06/04/2018 12:16:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: goldstategop

The military is supposed to set an example for society


I generally agree with your sentiments, but you need to rethink that. The military is regimented and tasked to break things and kill people. That’s not what you want society to do.


74 posted on 06/04/2018 1:05:49 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Kaslin

later read


75 posted on 06/04/2018 2:57:00 PM PDT by Chuckster (There is no government solution to government corruption.)
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To: Kaslin

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76 posted on 06/04/2018 2:59:05 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: Kaslin

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77 posted on 06/04/2018 3:08:53 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: dforest
.....we take must back the educational system and return it to studies where kids actually learn things without
indoctrination.......school books designed with falsities have to go . ......

Doesnt anyone think its strange to have these Planned Parenthood genital sniffers in our schools 24/7 K-12?

Their only function is (A) to condition young women to tolerate the harvey weinstein's of the world,
(B) to condition young boys to be fodder for pedophiles, (C) to make sure youngsters are ready for sex, without the
"punishment" of (horrors) having a baby.

PP's goal is to outfit every youngster with birth control.....same as prostitutes.

78 posted on 06/04/2018 4:30:14 PM PDT by Liz ( (Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: a fool in paradise
"Can the ranks look up to a commanding officer who cross-dresses in uniform?"

Good point. ...or one who cross-dresses out of uniform. Either on or off duty, it would be a morale killer.


79 posted on 06/04/2018 5:01:05 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: carriage_hill; Honorary Serb

Ping.


80 posted on 06/04/2018 5:47:47 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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