Do conservatives believe in anything?

[BidenPresident]

American conservatism exists, if I could put it in my own words, to clean up the messes created by the country’s dominant class of liberal elites. The Reagan Revolution wasn’t a proper “revolution” at all but a series of conservative repairs, chief among them reforming a crippling tax code and revivifying the American economy. The great triumph of neoconservatism in the 1970s and ’80s was not the formulation of some original philosophy but the demonstration that liberal policies had ruined our cities.

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So, no.

 

[BidenPresident]

The post-World War II conservative coalition’s stress on the free market and individual liberty made sense during the Cold War, when Soviet totalitarianism threatened the West and tempted its intellectuals to embrace Marxian centralization, but what’s needed now is cultural and economic solidarity. This critique, popular among some self-described “national conservatives,” overestimates the good and underestimates the harm government planning can bring about. Still, it isn’t an unreasonable argument. R.R. Reno’s “Return of the Strong Gods” (2019) is an eloquent expression of it.

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[Truck Fump / h1b]

American conservatism exists, if I could put it in my own words, to clean up the messes created by the country’s dominant class of liberal elites. The Reagan Revolution wasn’t a proper “revolution” at all but a series of conservative repairs, chief among them reforming a crippling tax code and revivifying the American economy. The great triumph of neoconservatism in the 1970s and ’80s was not the formulation of some original philosophy but the demonstration that liberal policies had ruined our cities.

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So, no.

we believe in a plain text reading of the constitution and bill of rights, the primacy of the individual, and a healthy suspicion of the corrupting influence of power and centralization.

I would add we are also opposed to critical theory, and post modernist dumbassery.

all of that shit is for retards.

 

[BidenPresident]

we believe in a plain text reading of the constitution and bill of rights, the primacy of the individual, and a healthy suspicion of the corrupting influence of power and centralization.

What is a "plain text reading of the constitution?"

 

[Nordberg]

Repubs want the followers to leave no wealthy person unblown. The reds are happy to provide. They see foes in every direction but the real one. Our wealth is going straight up to the foreign bank accounts of the super-wealthy. The Repubs on this board just love that and fight for it. Money =power. Yes, Repubs give those one-percenters all you have. They deserve it. You are correct, you should have nothing. no money, no power, no regulations. nothing.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

What is a "plain text reading of the constitution?"

it means reading it according to what words mean.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

Repubs want the followers to leave no wealthy person unblown. The reds are happy to provide. They see foes in every direction but the real one. Our wealth is going straight up to the foreign bank accounts of the super-wealthy. The Repubs on this board just love that and fight for it. Money =power. Yes, Repubs give those one-percenters all you have. They deserve it. You are correct, you should have nothing. no money, no power, no regulations. nothing.

yes. the foreign banks accounts of the super wealthy, that's due to globalism which you seem to unconditionally support like a typical neocon moron.

 

[BidenPresident]

it means reading it according to what words mean.

Then why have a Supreme Court if the meaning of the Const. is obvious and self evident?

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

Then why have a Supreme Court if the meaning of the Const. is obvious and self evident?

to render decisions on the matters at hand. doy.

 

[BidenPresident]

to render decisions on the matters at hand. doy.

blerf

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

blerf

exactly.

you're a fucking idiot.

 

[BidenPresident]

exactly.

you'.

ignore. tired of the trolls

 

[BidenPresident]

I think conservatives just hate liberals. Nothing more to it.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

ignore. tired of the trolls

I gave you a very honest and accurate answer.

then you acted retarded.

 

[BidenPresident]

Especially today, conservatives are really fascists.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

I think conservatives just hate liberals. Nothing more to it.

you think that because you're a retard.

 

[Truck Fump / h1b]

Especially today, conservatives are really fascists.

nope.

dems don't even know what the word means.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

What is a "plain text reading of the constitution?"

I would start with that the preamble of the Constitution, the part that reads ...to promote the general welfare... is not a blank check to allow the government to freely institute a massive social-welfare state using mass confiscation of wealth. To go further, it does not give Congress any legal authority whatsoever but rather is a opening statement on intent, not a physical written law.

 

[BidenPresident]

I would start with that the preamble of the Constitution, the part that reads ...to promote the general welfare... is not a blank check to allow the government to freely institute a massive social-welfare state

Where in the 'plain text' does it explicitly prevent it?

 

[AProudLefty]

I would start with that the preamble of the Constitution, the part that reads ...to promote the general welfare... is not a blank check to allow the government to freely institute a massive social-welfare state using mass confiscation of wealth. To go further, it does not give Congress any legal authority whatsoever but rather is a opening statement on intent, not a physical written law.

So no taxes?