Don't you hard-right Liti-Cons realize you are undermining the Republican Party?

[Slowlane]

This goes without saying.

I was thinking something like that. Also how much the person he was answering and he have in common. As alike as a pair of jokers.

 

[The_Trouvere]

This goes without saying.

I have liked members of the Socialist Workers' Party. They, and the Communist Party members I have known were civilized, well informed people, with whom I could have civil and interesting conversations.

I have also liked the Mormon missionaries who have tried to convert me. Unlike you, I do not dislike people just because I disagree with them.

I have not liked the people I knew who belonged to the Progressive Labor Party and those who belonged to the Workers' League because they were as fanatical as Literotica General Board wingnuts.

 

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[Slowlane]

I have liked members of the Socialist Workers' Party. They, and the Communist Party members I have known were civilized, well informed people, with whom I could have civil and interesting conversations.

I have also liked the Mormon missionaries who have tried to convert me. Unlike you, I do not dislike people just because I disagree with them.

I have not liked the people I knew who belonged to the Progressive Labor Party and those who belonged to the Workers' League because they were as fanatical as Literotica General Board wingnuts.

If you're not a fanatic then I hope I never meet one.


Oh, wait - I have --- they're just like you.

Imagine that.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I have liked members of the Socialist Workers' Party.

Trotskyists, aren't they? "Marxist-Leninist" but anti-Stalinist? Those are always interesting. Curiously enough, that environment bred the earliest American neocons.

 

[KingOrfeo]

That piece misses the distinction between fiscal conservatism and social conservatism.

The Bush II years saw social conservatism on top among Republicans, that's true. But outcomes such as expansion of government, ballooning of the national debt, and TARP/partial nationalization of banks, indicate that fiscal conservatism has not been well represented in our government for quite some time.

Nitpick: "Expansion of government" is not incompatible with fiscal conservatism, so long as it is not paid for by deficit spending. (It almost always is, but I mean, in principle.) Fiscal conservatism != economic libertarianism or small government.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I read #23. And they have NO relevance. They wrote that Nixon and Bush were conservatives. Perhaps in their world. They have no status here. Haven't you heard, Obama has decreed that the UK is just another third rate nation on the same level as the Taliban.

Ishmael

One of Wooldridge and Micklethwait's points is that American conservatives are far more fiercely nationalistic than European conservatives. And you're providing a prime example.

 

[off2bed]

Nitpick: "Expansion of government" is not incompatible with fiscal conservatism, so long as it is not paid for by deficit spending. (It almost always is, but I mean, in principle.) Fiscal conservatism != economic libertarianism or small government.

Expansion of government is not a conservative concept. Conservatism shares with Libertarianism the goal of minimalist government. So I hope you didn't get any poo on your fingers as you pulled that statement out of your ass.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Conservatism shares with Libertarianism the goal of minimalist government.

Conservative ideology does, perhaps. But fiscal conservatism is a narrower concept.