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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Right. Anybody who knows me knows that I despise semantics anyway...
It's just American conservatism. The rich staying rich and culture staying whiteish and Christian-looking.
But culture grows. The country isn't so white and Christian anymore, and the poor need to be given a better chance to move up.
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay
Indeed, America will certainly change greatly over my lifetime, and it needs to avoid becoming irrelevant to it's citizens. And not just in our foods or whatever,but the way individualism of our society,our national pride, and the way we view our history just for starters.
I will say that my problem with calling myself "Conservative" is that I'm not particularly fixated on tradition, though I do in practice support Conservative policies. I'd call myself a religious capitalist with patriotic/nationalistic tendencies, but that's a mouth-full.
Leviticus 19:34How ironic. A guy who prided himself on batshit levels of conservative policies is literally turning almost the entirety of a red state into a blue one.
Watch SymphogearHe raped his state's economy with ultra-reactionary Tea Party ideas.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"to be honest it's kind of embarrassing that congressmen in the US say like things like that.
also this is unrelated (i was mostly just browsing the todd akin article and was reminded of this) the whole "liberal media" bogeyman is really grating because it's like conservative politicians/voters have no idea how the rest of the world sees them and that their standards for what constitutes as liberal might be completely skewed.
edited 26th Oct '15 5:53:56 PM by wehrmacht
Update on the guy who jacked up medicine to over seven hundred dollars. He now has competition!
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/oct/22/imprimis-turing-daraprim/
@Ramidel:
RE Ben Carson's ideas: Wow, that's really toxic. How does a neurosurgeon get this insane? Did he somehow try to operate on himself or what?
edited 27th Oct '15 1:52:37 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
He's got two things working against him: neurology, psychiatry and psychology often attract odd ducks. Worse: he concentated on surgery. Only pathologists are weirder. Maybe annethologists, too.
But, seriously: if you want to find a God complex, pick the surgical unit and throw a stone at a bunch of consultants.
edited 27th Oct '15 4:30:23 PM by Euodiachloris
HAH! I CLAIM VICTORY THIS ONE TIME!
THE DAY IS MINE, EUO! I MADE THIS JOKE FIRST!
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesNow I expect some racist Shingeki No Kyojin mashup where the Mexican people are cast as titans.

It comes down to definitions being matters of convention rather than anything solid that one can peg down semantically.
Conservatism, in the general sense, incorporates a respect for tradition and a desire to preserve existing systems against unnecessary change. Change can be good, but can also leave chaos in its wake, so solutions to problems should draw on past ideas and have as little impact on society as possible.
Liberalism has a vast array of definitions, but generally it is the belief in the maximization of personal freedom. What it's most often used for in the United States (as opposed to Europe) is social liberalism (see below).
Socialism is the principle that it is the duty of those who enjoy more of the benefits of society to share what we have with those who have less, in order to maximize economic opportunity.
Social liberalism (the meeting point of the above two philosophies) is the belief that society should move towards greater equality (in all respects), using governance as a tool to implement any necessary changes. Social liberals hold that society is at its best when all individuals are guaranteed maximum opportunity through institutions that prevent any one person from seizing more than their fair share.
The Democratic Party in the United States encompasses an extraordinarily broad range of political philosophies, but is mainly conservative social liberalism — a hybrid of all of the above philosophies.
The Republican Party in the United States labels itself "conservative", but is actually a reactionary party with several agendas that overlap in a complex Venn diagram:
edited 26th Oct '15 2:58:01 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"