Conservatives defend Tradition

[SuperDemocrat]

My own thoughts about living in a society with so much belief in freedom is that people are going to eventually question traditional culture such as marriage. It is just the way free thinking is because there isn't a reason why some elements in tradition shouldn't be questioned. Why do have long standing taboos against homosexuality and other such things. This doesn't mean we would automatically throw out tradition because maybe some of those customs we inherit are actually healthy in society.

I think the mistake conservatives, particularly social conservatives, make is that they defend things like the sanctity of marriage based on tradition and tradition should be maintained for its own sake. That is the only argument they have and the problem with that is that we really don't know why certain things exist in society other than our forefathers before us did them so we do them to. These conservatives really don't make as good as argument for their position as 'liberals' do for theirs because they really don't think critically of tradition. I personally don't think they see a reason why traditions should be questioned which is why they don't think about their own position that often and, consequently, why they don't have a good argument for their defense of tradition other than it is just the way things are done.

I think 'liberals' are more motivated by a sense of social destruction because, in the eyes of socialist, modern society is really created by bourgeois elements in it. That is how they see it so everything that has anything to do with the maintenance of capitalist society has to be destroyed and that includes tradition since we inherit the capitalist creations from our fathers.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Yup, SD's type of conservative defends the traditions of slavery, white voting, male voting, children factory workers, so and so on.

Mods, please put this in the badlands.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Yup, SD's type of conservative defends the traditions of slavery, white voting, male voting, children factory workers, so and so on.

Mods, please put this in the badlands.

This is an example of censorship mentality that 'liberals' should have. It makes people wonder if these people are 'liberals' at all.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Yup, SD's type of conservative defends the traditions of slavery, white voting, male voting, children factory workers, so and so on.

Mods, please put this in the badlands.

This is an example of censorship mentality that 'liberals' should have. It makes people wonder if these people are 'liberals' at all.

I am not a liberal, you are not a conservative. You are an Alt Right clown. Your silly thread is best placed where it belongs: badlands. Now tell me how the badlands is censorship.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Yup, SD's type of conservative defends the traditions of slavery, white voting, male voting, children factory workers, so and so on.

Mods, please put this in the badlands.

This is an example of censorship mentality that 'liberals' should have. It makes people wonder if these people are 'liberals' at all.

I am not a liberal, you are not a conservative. You are an Alt Right clown. Your silly thread is best placed where it belongs: badlands. Now tell me how the badlands is censorship.

I see the new strategy the left is employing. They can't say the right is racist anymore because it has been shown the democratic party has been the party of the KKK for most of the 20th centurty. Now they create alt-right and label them as racist and throw anyone they don't like into that catagory. BRAVO! It is pretty ingenious and downright diabolical.

 

[Moonglow]

Yup, SD's type of conservative defends the traditions of slavery, white voting, male voting, children factory workers, so and so on.

Mods, please put this in the badlands.

This is an example of censorship mentality that 'liberals' should have. It makes people wonder if these people are 'liberals' at all.

I am not a liberal, you are not a conservative. You are an Alt Right clown. Your silly thread is best placed where it belongs: badlands. Now tell me how the badlands is censorship.

I see the new strategy the left is employing. They can't say the right is racist anymore because it has been shown the democratic party has been the party of the KKK for most of the 20th centurty. Now they create alt-right and label them as racist and throw anyone they don't like into that catagory. BRAVO! It is pretty ingenious and downright diabolical.

Except for the GOP members that started to flock to the KKK in the 1920's.....

 

[bodecea]

My own thoughts about living in a society with so much belief in freedom is that people are going to eventually question traditional culture such as marriage. It is just the way free thinking is because there isn't a reason why some elements in tradition shouldn't be questioned. Why do have long standing taboos against homosexuality and other such things. This doesn't mean we would automatically throw out tradition because maybe some of those customs we inherit are actually healthy in society.

I think the mistake conservatives, particularly social conservatives, make is that they defend things like the sanctity of marriage based on tradition and tradition should be maintained for its own sake. That is the only argument they have and the problem with that is that we really don't know why certain things exist in society other than our forefathers before us did them so we do them to. These conservatives really don't make as good as argument for their position as 'liberals' do for theirs because they really don't think critically of tradition. I personally don't think they see a reason why traditions should be questioned which is why they don't think about their own position that often and, consequently, why they don't have a good argument for their defense of tradition other than it is just the way things are done.

I think 'liberals' are more motivated by a sense of social destruction because, in the eyes of socialist, modern society is really created by bourgeois elements in it. That is how they see it so everything that has anything to do with the maintenance of capitalist society has to be destroyed and that includes tradition since we inherit the capitalist creations from our fathers.

Yes...the "Tradition" of 100+ years ago.

 

[guno]

"It’s no surprise that conservatives have such limited, regressive views on what makes a ‘good’ family,”

The Conservative Definition of 'Family Values' Is B.S.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The Alt Right are not true conservatives.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

The Alt Right are not true conservatives.

I see you got the email. Keep playing to this strategy. It may save you from a Trump presidency.

 

[Indeependent]

Conservatism is Manifest Destiny by another name.
They scream "Liberty" and Christianize "Liberty" by applying their religion as to what should be restricted.
Why not just call themselves Manifest Destinians.

 

[Indeependent]

The Alt Right are not true conservatives.

We have no true Conservatives, we have selfish pigs.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The Alt Right are not true conservatives.

We have no true Conservatives, we have selfish pigs.

You are wrong.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

OP is onto something with the leftists acting out of destruction. More accurately, they act out of greed and selfishness and don't concern themselves with the destruction.

 

[Indeependent]

The Alt Right are not true conservatives.

We have no true Conservatives, we have selfish pigs.

You are wrong.

I am a Conservative aka the Alt Right.
Screw the pigs.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

"It’s no surprise that conservatives have such limited, regressive views on what makes a ‘good’ family,”

The Conservative Definition of 'Family Values' Is B.S.

I think if you actually read and understood what I wrote instead of reacting you would have seen I was critiquing social conservatives. I didn't say anything about the benefit of the nuclear family vs other kinds of families. I said conservatives don't see a need to change traditions in this country while 'liberals' do for some reason. In fact, I don't even think most conservatives care about the postives or negatives of traditional values. to them, it is just a non-issue so they don't think about it politically.

'liberals' on the other hand seem to be the opposite and because of that private decisions now become politics which is why every single social science class feels so political sometimes.

 

[JakeStarkey]

"It’s no surprise that conservatives have such limited, regressive views on what makes a ‘good’ family,”

The Conservative Definition of 'Family Values' Is B.S.

I think if you actually read and understood what I wrote instead of reacting you would have seen I was critiquing social conservatives. I didn't say anything about the benefit of the nuclear family vs other kinds of families. I said conservatives don't see a need to change traditions in this country while 'liberals' do for some reason. In fact, I don't even think most conservatives care about the postives or negatives of traditional values. to them, it is just a non-issue so they don't think about it politically.

'liberals' on the other hand seem to be the opposite and because of that private decisions now become politics which is why every single social science class feels so political sometimes.

Slavery was not ended by cons, neither was segregation, nor was all white male voting.