FA_Q2
Gold Member
Really? Outlawing abortion requires LESS government regulation, enforcement and intrusion? Defining who you can and cannot marry? The war on drugs? Need I go on? No, I need not - it is obvious that to enforce moralistic standards you require massive government. The republican party just does not want to admit that.Because the social conservative position naturally requires MORE government involvement. That is what social conservatism essentially is - the mandate that the government enforce some set of morality.I am not represented by anyone so no - right now there certainly is not representation for everyone.The social conservatives have always been the problem with the right - the very idea of social conservatism in this nation is 100 percent counter to the idea of smaller less intrusive government. One CANNOT exist within the same framework as the other. It is the doublethink that the right has to deal with.
I wait with bated breath for them to shed that part of the party but have no real hope of them actually managing it.
really, so much for Representation FOR EVERYONE in this country
no big tent from you eh?
Simply put - we have 2 big government parties in this nation. The republicans talk all the time about small government and fiscal sanity and then propose EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. Big tent away - just don't mix 2 ideologies that are incompatible at their very core.
It is like trying to be a Marxist Capitalist. The very idea is silly.
I won't disagree with what you say there. but you were dumping on Social Conservatives. I don't where you came up they can't be for smaller Government. no big deal. it just caught my attention
hum, I think you have that backwards. but no matter.