YoungRepublican;6564740
Not true at all sir. Just because I dont care if gays get married or evolution is taught in schools does not make me a democrat.
To YoungRepublican: It does not make you a conservative either.
I’m curious. Do you care about being forced to associate with gays or anybody else? Fire a homosexual because you do not want to have anything to do with him and you get hit with a lawsuit. Gays getting married is a smokescreen.
Teaching the three R’s should be the extent of state and local governments’ involvement in education. The federal government has no business in education. Anything after the three R’s is up to the parents.
YoungRepublican;6564740
I believe in a small effective government that knows its role.
To YoungRepublican: If that’s the case the only thing you have to say is “I believe the government can only do that which is clearly enumerated in the Constitution.” Your previous call for “effective government programs” indicates you do not believe in small effective government.
Incidentally, I can’t count the number of politicians that ran on a promise of efficient government —— efficient being a synonym for effective. In fact, I think Romney spouted that very line. Conversely, promising the country efficient government is the one thing Democrats cannot lie about. Even they know the public will not buy efficient coming from a tax and spend crook.
In the same vein reforming this or that is another standard much favored by politicians looking to get elected. Politicians running for reelection do not often call for reform because the public might point out that they made the mess that needs reforming. In short: Whenever the public hears the words reform, efficient, or effective coming out of a politician’s mouth they should hide the family silver.
To YoungRepublican: Good grief. Now it’s effective moderate. So far, I’ve not heard you say anything effective or moderate about day to day government.
To YoungRepublican: Let me enlighten you.
Totalitarian government is one extreme. Anarchy is the other extreme. Limited government is the permanent center; it never moves. At least it is not supposed to move.
In reality, Democrats have been nudging the center to the Left since LBJ declared war on poverty. Democrats repeatedly established new centers by moving the existing center to the Left and all while swearing they govern from the center. Example: Bill Clinton moved the center he inherited much further Left than it was when he took office. Hussein took the center he inherited so far to the Left there is serious doubt it can ever be moved back to Clinton’s center. LBJ’s center is so far gone few Americans remember what it was.
So-called moderates trying to show how politically sophisticated they are readily accept every new center. One day they will wake up in a work camp and swear that totalitarian government is moderate rather than admit they did not know what the hell they stood for all of their lives.
Incidentally, in my long life the center never moved to the Right. At best, it stopped moving Left for brief periods.
Finally, why has socialism’s incrementalism worked so well for Democrats? Answer: Because every generation produces an overabundance of fools who believe that a benign totalitarian government is possible.
Toro;6564747
Fiscal conservatism married with social liberalism is often called "libertarian" or "classical liberalism."
To Toro: I’ll assume you don’t know the meaning of incompatible:
incompatible (
adjective)
1. Incapable of associating or blending or of being associated or blended because of disharmony, incongruity, or antagonism:
incompatible views on religion.
2. Impossible to be held simultaneously by one person:
the incompatible offices of prosecutor and judge.
3. Logic. That cannot be simultaneously true; mutually exclusive. See synonyms at inconsistent.
4. Medicine.
a. Producing an undesirable effect when used in combination with a particular substance:
a medication that is incompatible with alcohol.
b. Not immunologically compatible:
incompatible blood types.
Toro;6564747
The idea that you have to be a social conservative - believe in God, oppose abortion, criminalize drugs, oppose gay marriage, etc. - to believe in free markets and liberty is utter nonsense.
To Toro: You are mixing oranges and apples. I don’t give a rat’s ass what anyone believes so long as they do not force their beliefs on me, or demand that I fund those beliefs with tax dollars.
As far as behavior goes, Socialists —— not conservatives —— insist on dictating behavior. The worst of it is their sick attempts to legislate love.