I'm not as concerned as who holds the office for 4/8 years. What bugs me is the persistent dereliction by Congress (this is but one example, see too failure to timely draft legislation creating Military Tribunals, even though they KNEW they had to, lest the executive-created ones be found unconstitutional), and the ignorant, indifferent, selfish character of the people.
Screw it. It can't go to hell fast enough to suit me. I'll defend my house, my family, my neighborhood, but beyond that, I frankly lost my give-a-damn.
“the ignorant, indifferent, selfish character of the people.
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Now THAT is also a conservative principle ! People have always been like this. There is just a whole lot wrong with human nature and always has been. History shows no particular degradation or enhancement of virtue. There is no point getting exercised by that at all.
Conservatism, by one definition, is a philosophy of working with the grain of human nature, as opposed to the alternative, which insists on systems that require virtue, or else.