If we're going back to work by Easter, why are we wrecking our free market system now?
"If" indeed… Michael Kane does Rudyard Kipling, and does it rather well
“ Is there any principled conservative position that you will stand for against Donald Trump? Is there any conservative hill you will die on with or without Donald Trump?”
This is a ludicrous consideration. When you are surrounded by a raging fire, you are not liberal, conservative, communist or capitalist. You are a survivalist...or you are dead. The economy is slammed shut. The people - the workers, the businesses that drive our entire way of life are within a couple of weeks of losing everything right up to being able to feed themselves. All you pensioners...do you think if this dragged on you’d keep getting your checks? The public sector employees are all getting paid, whether they are working or not...for awhile...a month or two.
Principle conservatism has all the value of a glass of water to a man whose house is burning down around him. It has never been anything but a way of thought written on paper anyway. In reality, no society, no nation anywhere has operated on those principles (with the possible exception of some podunk backwater somewhere in the world that can be dredged up) in well more than 100 years. All the conservative principles you can come up with aren’t worth a roll of toilet paper today. This is - or more likely has been made into - an existential crisis, from the standpoint of the nation right down to the personal level.
“Is it not fair to ask whether Trump vigorously fought the Democrats hard enough against fiscal insanity?”
I am not a pensioner, I am not a business owner or the employee of a shut down business or industry. I have no skin in the game - yet. But I too will be swallowed under like everyone else if the economy is not resuscitated in pretty short order. I’ve said this a hundred times, if the American voter didn’t want to give the Democrats power they wouldn’t have elected so many of them. In an existential crisis, where every day matters, you play the hand you are given, not the your “political principles” say you should have. The engine - the heart - that pumps the blood to everyone living in this country has gone into cardiac arrest. “Principle conservatives” are what - 15%, or I can be Uber generous and say 20% of the people - a faction. If you want to promote your conservative principles in the middle of a raging fire, you (and I’m speaking of Massie here, not you Mr. Forrest) you are beyond foolish, you are completely out of touch with the mass of humanity around you.
If we're going back to work by Easter, why are we wrecking our free market system now?
"If" indeed… Michael Kane does Rudyard Kipling, and does it rather well
Thank you for your post.