I find myself hesitant to praise your eminently logical posts like this one. I fear my flippant humor and self surrender to reality will somehow taint your comments. It is sad because you make too much sense for some, but I recognize in you, the reasons why I used to call myself conservative. Your posts bring me back to a day when I could proudly call myself a conservative. When that meant more than a dismissal of both parties as evil, or the lessor of 2 evils. Today I say I am a pro-life, pro-gun, pro-business, pro-God, pro-taxcut, pro-military Republican...I have no idea what a conservative is in the age of pro PP, pro gun restriction, pro-emanate domain, pro-bankruptcy, pro-tax, pro-soldiers who don't get captured Trump. I am so filled with rage and disgust that this f*cker is representing MY party...a party that his fans callously reject, that I sometimes see good and honorable people like DC and AlignCare as my enemy, while Obama, and Hitlery laugh. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it wasn't for my Lucky Astrology Mood Watch (thanx Steve)
Seriously, I am so glad you take the time to be heard and understood...against the slings and barbs of those who would see you as a 1 issue voter. I may not call myself conservative today, but in my heart, and in the heart of liberal Madison, WI...I am.
I proudly accept your compliment, Once-ler, and am humbled by it at the same time.
I understand your angst about being called a conservative, seeing what's going on among
some conservatives these days (I call many of them "pseudo-cons"). I used to think that liberals base their ideology on feelings (they do), but that conservatives based our ideology on rational thought.
That, obviously, is no longer true. I've seen the Trump phenomenon explained a zillion times, but it always comes down to one thing..... we're
angry. Well I'm angry too, but I refuse to make emotion the basis of any decision I make.......... especially when that decision is to vote for someone who doesn't share a single conservative value.
And in addition, what I see from many so-called conservatives is a deeper hatred for Republicans than for Marxists.
What sense does THAT make in a rational world? I would think that they tacitly agreed with Hillary Clinton when she said her greatest enemy was the Republican party. They hate it as much as she does, and hate Republicans
viscerally, and if some posts on this (or any) board are what people really think (and not just what they say to be noticed), then they hate the GOP more than they hate Hillary herself.
I think that's why so many Trump devotees jump on anyone who calls out who he really is as a "hater." They are projecting their own emotional attachment to this mirage - a reflection of anger, not thought - on those of us who are thinking beyond the moment.
Not to say that I'm not angry at the Republican party. I am. I'm among those who feel deeply betrayed by the people we've sent to DC to represent us. But I'm not about to support a Progressive because I'm angry that the Republican party for being too liberal.
If Trump wins the nomination, I'm going to have to give serious thought as to whether or not I can even vote for him. And that's never happened to me in my life. These are dangerous days, my friend.
Thanks again for your kind words............... and hang in there.