Without gerrymandering, expensive all media blitz campaigns and massive voter suppression, what are the odds Republicans could rule anything?
Who votes to keep things as they are and to fight against progress? Can that be anyone?
56-60, F
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Rule?
I'm not sure where exactly you're going, but conservatism, i.e., resisting progress, has a long history over the last few centuries, and I could certainly make an argument, a la Buckley and others, that legitimate principled conservatism can be a constructive political force.
I'd have a harder time with reactionary movements, ideologies based on pseudo history like Naziism and the Lost Cause, and Trumpism's toying with bringing back the guilded age of criminally unrestrained crony capitalism.
I'm not sure where exactly you're going, but conservatism, i.e., resisting progress, has a long history over the last few centuries, and I could certainly make an argument, a la Buckley and others, that legitimate principled conservatism can be a constructive political force.
I'd have a harder time with reactionary movements, ideologies based on pseudo history like Naziism and the Lost Cause, and Trumpism's toying with bringing back the guilded age of criminally unrestrained crony capitalism.
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
@MistyCee The Republicans have fallen a long way from William F Buckley to today's cable TV gasbags.
Watch reruns of "Firing Line" and anticipate how far Buckley could lean back in his chair with a pen in his hand.
Today's conservatives would hate him. He had this odd easy coast upper class accent spiced with words with more than five letters.
80% of this country's problems can be traced to Republican dogma.
Watch reruns of "Firing Line" and anticipate how far Buckley could lean back in his chair with a pen in his hand.
Today's conservatives would hate him. He had this odd easy coast upper class accent spiced with words with more than five letters.
80% of this country's problems can be traced to Republican dogma.