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.
Oh, I love this thread....and the comments. Thx everybody.
American, constitutionalist, conservative, compassionate (where deserved), hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding, 2A-friendly, red meat-eating, white and PROUD!
DAMN PROUD!
I live a couple miles from the Microsoft main campus, and I have posted dozens of comments and articles on the flagrant and near-criminal abuse of H-1B.
However, I consider H-1B to be a symptom of “corporatism” (complicity between government and big business), not “Conservatism.”
I also agree that distributing our core technologies is military suicide, but economically, I'm not so sure.
I would say the three greatest beneficiaries of our industrial and IT technology are Mexico, China, and India.
Yet, those countries are also the three leading sources of legal immigration to the USA.
If our technology is so bountiful, why do millions of their citizens want to move to America, but almost no mature American adults want to emigrate to Mexico, China, or India?
Re: “Currency manipulation makes your argument moot.”
Completely disagree.
Currency value only influences the sale of raw materials and interchangeable commodity products.
Few Americans understand the specialization and value added nature of our industrial economy.
In 2007, before the Great Recession, the value of America’s industrial output, adjusted for inflation, was the highest in our history.
The productivity of American industrial workers is phenomenal, the highest in the world - five times higher than Chinese workers!
The problem in industrial America is that:
(1) Our country has been LEGALLY flooded with millions of low and medium skilled foreign born workers - when labor supply goes up, wages go down.
(2) The number of American industrial jobs is stagnant, or declining, because of automation and because we have the best industrial management in the world.
I must dispute your central statement.
I do not believe that conservative orthodoxy is dead. What we have seem in the past few decades is NOT conservatism. What we saw last night is, I believe, the rebirth of conservatism. Law and order, justice, equality, equality before the law, fairness, good business practices, security, strong military, protect and take care of own.
In the last 30+ years it's also included foreign, do-gooder interventions in the world and cultural suicide.
Modern Conservative Orthodoxy is NOT Paleo Conservative.
It has also thoroughly enabled the most corrupt governance in American history by allow the overt bribing of the US Congress, who was for sale to the highest bidder anyway.
And they did that by distracting the electorate with valid social issues...creating as much controversy around them as possible...and making them nearly the sole basis of campaigns.
I swear the term globalist has become so waterdown here on FR just as the John Birch society water down the term communist
The public email address I have listed is globalist@nwo.gov—it was fun to tweak the Brigadiers with it a decade or so ago. Now, despite that the definition of “globalist” has mutated in every direction, I keep it there for historical purposes.
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