BlackAsCoal
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- Oct 13, 2008
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The modern conservative plays martyrdom like a fiddle, even if they win they lose. It is so interesting how they are always the loser, and as the loser, pity must be felt for them as all things out there challenge them. Conservatives only exist - feel real - in the strange world of a sinking ship, for when the ship is not sinking, they have no place to hide and whine that great losses are upon them. What a weird ideology the right has become, in losing or even winning, the world is against them.
"Conservatives often complain that theyve been exiled from power, whether in the corridors of the Capitol or the pages of the New York Times. Yet conservative ideas have dominated American politics for thirty years. The centerpiece of that dominance is the notion that the market equals freedom and government is the threat to freedom. Despite the Great Recession and election of Barack Obama, the most progressive candidate to win the presidency since 1964, that idea retains its hold. The ideological realignment we have been waiting for, in which that idea is repudiated, has yet to come." Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom | The Nation
Read this book for it clarifies an ideology I used to take seriously. Amazon.com: The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (9780199793747): Corey Robin: Books
You are wrong that government spending per definition creates jobs. It just as often wipes them out. The equation is much more complex than you suggest.
http://www.usmessageboard.com/economy/220510-the-greatest-job-creator-of-all-time.html
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If I am misreading this I apologize .. but the last time I was posting here I believe you were a conservative. I ask with all due respect.