To: headsonpikes
I think this runs on a false premise.
The "religious right" is the source of social conservatism (count me in!). Capitalism is the source of fiscal conservatism. The two have some interests in common; despite the delusions of Libertarians, social liberals believe in spending lots of money to promote every sort of perversion as "normal and healthy" and establishing "social justice." It is hard, if not impossible, to be a REAL fiscal conservative AND a social liberal.
But the choice isn't "Religious Right" or "Secular Left."
(BTW: the "Religious Left" is, if anything, larger than the Religious Right - it just doesn't stand for much of anything, except not being "judgmental." Oh, and "social justice.")
18 posted on
08/29/2006 9:01:07 AM PDT by
Little Ray
(If you want to be a martyr, we want to martyr you.)
To: Little Ray
The "religious right" is the source of social conservatism (count me in!). Capitalism is the source of fiscal conservatism.I'm more of a political conservative, based entirely on the historical record - I have no trust in Establishments of any kind, however "justified" they may be in their own eyes.
21 posted on
08/29/2006 9:14:59 AM PDT by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: Little Ray
The "religious right" is the source of social conservatism (count me in!). Capitalism is the source of fiscal conservatism. The two have some interests in common; despite the delusions of Libertarians, social liberals believe in spending lots of money to promote every sort of perversion as "normal and healthy" and establishing "social justice." It is hard, if not impossible, to be a REAL fiscal conservative AND a social liberal.You left out "political conservativsm" - the old school constitutionalists who won't simply take a social agenda into the political arena and let the end justify the means.
54 posted on
08/29/2006 10:06:50 AM PDT by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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