Posted on 07/22/2016 9:20:35 AM PDT by Mariner
What so few on the left or right are acknowledging, for better or worse, is the complete defeat of Conservative Orthodoxy last night...that rotten philosophy that brought us "Free Trade", resulting in the largest transfer of wealth in the history of civilization, Open Borders and the "Free" movement of labor that has destroyed large portions of middle America, Foreign Adventure when no strategic US interest is stake, and resulting in innumerable thousands dead, $trillions wasted and chaos throughout the world.
Also destroyed was the silly notion that the US should bear the full costs of worldwide security and that those who benefit from our Friendship can continue to take advantage of our good will.
But perhaps most importantly this convention and nomination burst the "Bubble of Shame" that has held down middle America.
From the left, admonitions on race, language, and welcoming ever more needy from foreign cultures that want to kill us...when we cannot feed all who are here now including ourselves.
And especially from the Conservative Orthodoxy Right...that we MUST fight to the death over who uses what bathroom. That we MUST see Homo Marriage as an immediate and existential threat. That we MUST fight foreign wars over issues like national pride compassion. Free Trade is always good. Open borders are compassionate. There's nothing we can do to stop the essential cultural transformation...and any objection comes with the racist label ratified by the right.
Conservative Orthodoxy has become a whore, drunk on our blood and travails.
And last night we kicked that b!tch to the gutter where she belongs.
We're free to think again, and suddenly realize some of the underlying forces and deceptions that have kept us moving, ever so slowly and deliberately, to destruction.
Caucasian is beautiful. All lives matter.
“The next time Mark Levin or Ted Cruz, or Bill Kristol...any number of pundits in media or on Free Republic try to shame you, tell them to take a hike.”
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Okay, but can I tell them something more...colorful?
He has no problem sorting through the clutter to address the existential issues.
“Conservative Orthodoxy has become a whore, drunk on our blood and travails.”
I’ve thought that for years! If what we’ve seen of “so-called conservatism” in recent years is what is really is, it needs to go, and be replaced with populism or whatever it is that you call what Trump is selling. Conservatism only works for the crony capitalists today. The Dow isn’t a measure of how average people are doing, it’s just a barometer for the rich.
Trump is selling Americanism.
It's okay, you can say it.
BS. If Pence wasn’t on the ticket, you’d be railing against him as a “globalist.” ‘Fess up.
I’ll not budge one inch on Sodomitic “marriage” because it violates the Natural Law on which not just this society but every society is based.
However, there were a lot of “conservative” positions that just didn’t make sense anymore, and it’s about time a Republican realized it. If “strong military” means being involved in senseless conflicts throughout the globe count me out. If “pro-business” means letting the big banks charge the American taxpayer for their losses, or allowiung illegals to pour in and “do the jobs Americans won’t do” then stuff that.
Of course I would. Undeniably.
However, Pence has no power of decision at VP. He has agreed, in essence, to keep his philosophy contained.
“Trump is selling Americanism.
It’s okay, you can say it.”
Thanks!
On your list of priorities, is that the battle we should fight first?
Lol! Well like the article says, we’ve literally all been shamed into not saying it. Or at least silenced from saying it by the scathing, mocking Left.
No way to put “Free Trade” back in the bottle, Mariner.
Business owners and consumers from almost every country in the world can compare prices and product quality in milliseconds.
And, the pay scale for low and medium skill labor, in EVERY country, has peaked, and will stagnate or decline for decades into the future.
Trump and the “new” Conservatives are fighting the last economic war.
The next war will be “our” robots and business/engineering software against “their” robots and business/engineering software.
I work for, with and among the most advanced Tech companies in the world.
What I see is even core technology research being distributed throughout the world and even to adversarial nations.
And ALL of the manufacturing is "over there". Half of all workers are H-1B or past H-1B with a green card.
Anyone who supports that is undermining the core, strategic security interests of the United States.
The “conservatism” of recent years has not been conservative at all.
“The “conservatism” of recent years has not been conservative at all.”
Yeah, we’ve all been sitting around while the “rich conservatives” have been blowing smoke up our collective a$$es!” It took Donald Trump to show us the way.
Currency manipulation makes your argument moot. Indeed, and what of price dumping and foreign tariffs?
Most of the conservative movement has been co-opted by Davos-style, transnational neoliberalism.
This is whay the mini-cons at NR and Weekly Standard strongly prefer $hillary to Trump.
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