Are you a conservative?

[Wry Catcher]

What is a conservative?

Is there a prototype which includes: social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, neo conservatives, one-issue conservatives and callous conservatives?

Where do these separate sets intersect (on what issues do they all agree?)

How do you feel about change?

 

[Avatar4321]

Yes. I am someone who believes in upholding and following the Constitution, fiscal sanity, and small government.

 

[The T]

Yes. I am someone who believes in upholding and following the Constitution, fiscal sanity, and small government.

Add practicing Liberty with responsibility.

 

[The Rabbi]

I believe in dismembering liberals and hanging their parts from trees as a warning to others.

 

[BDBoop]

I voted change is good. I have no idea what the poll has to do with the thread title.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I believe in dismembering liberals and hanging their parts from trees as a warning to others.

That would explain why you wish to relive the Dark Ages.

 

[PredFan]

Change can be good, but not all change is good.

 

[PredFan]

I am a libertarian, IMO, we are the true conservatives.

 

[Wry Catcher]

I voted change is good. I have no idea what the poll has to do with the thread title.

I thought the nexus was congruent, change can be for good or bad, we know it is scary and can be dangerous. Thus, which word on first blush describes how the reader sees change? It goes with are you a conservative, since support for tradition and slow cautious change are generally included in most definitions of the word conservative.

 

[Avatar4321]

I believe in dismembering liberals and hanging their parts from trees as a warning to others.

That would explain why you wish to relive the Dark Ages.

If he wanted to relive the Dark ages, he would vote for progressives.

 

[BDBoop]

That was my guess. But if I extrapolate, then I would say use reasonable caution. Reason things out, and that applies to both sides. Don't knee jerk "Yes it is good" or "no it is bad" without thoroughly examining the issue.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I believe in dismembering liberals and hanging their parts from trees as a warning to others.

That would explain why you wish to relive the Dark Ages.

If he wanted to relive the Dark ages, he would vote for progressives.

You might want to read up on who ruled the Dark Ages? They weren't progressives, but they would have burned you at the stake for saying so.

 

[Avatar4321]

Change can be good, but not all change is good.

Change for the sake of change isn't good. But it can be used to better society.

That's why supporting liberty is important. Because it empowers individuals to change as they need instead of demanding the conform to the rigid demands of a big government.

 

[whitehall]

Leave it to the left to promote an inane poll. Lately all you see from the left is a variation of the old Seinfeld joke, posts based on nothing.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

That would explain why you wish to relive the Dark Ages.

If he wanted to relive the Dark ages, he would vote for progressives.

Christ was a progressive....

And look what happened to him, when the Conservatives were in charge.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Are you a conservative?


Change is
* Good
* inevtable
* Scary
* Dangerous

What does any of that have to do with conservatives?


Oh, I get it. You looked up some dictionary definition of "conservative", ignored that fact that the name was applied as a perjorative and a fib by the socialists of a hundred-plus years ago to honest people who wanted the limited government called for in the Constitution.

And then you decided to make a poll asking if the hundred-plus-year-old-lie was "still true".

Now your "poll" is understandable. Or at least the lies it embodies, are.

 

[The T]

Change can be good, but not all change is good.

Change for the sake of change isn't good. But it can be used to better society.

That's why supporting liberty is important. Because it empowers individuals to change as they need instead of demanding the conform to the rigid demands of a big government.

And demands of a government that favours only certain groups at the expense of others for the sake of vote buying to remain in power. THAT is tyranny.

 

[Avatar4321]

That would explain why you wish to relive the Dark Ages.

If he wanted to relive the Dark ages, he would vote for progressives.

You might want to read up on who ruled the Dark Ages? They weren't progressives, but they would have burned you at the stake for saying so.

Robbers with any other name are still robbers.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Progressive version of "Change" is: the USA has the Number 1 economy and until recently, the most prosperous middle class on the planet, and they intend to do something about that!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Are you a conservative?


Change is
* Good
* inevtable
* Scary
* Dangerous

What does any of that have to do with conservatives?


Oh, I get it. You looked up some dictionary definition of "conservative", ignored that fact that the name was applied as a perjorative and a fib by the socialists of a hundred-plus years ago to honest people who wanted the limited government called for in the Constitution.

And then you decided to make a poll asking if the hundred-plus-year-old-lie was "still true".

Now your "poll" is understandable. Or at least the lies it embodies, are.

99 out of 100 times Wry is our Freddo Corleone. Every once in a while he breaks pattern and says something sane and decent...well maybe it's more like 999 out of 1,000 times