It's tough to be a conservative in today's world.
No, it's not. It's a way of life, and it's the truth.
The sea-change in perspective in the last fifty years has hurt conservatism.
No, again, not true. If that were so, Republicans would be selling themselves as progressive. They are not. They sell themselves as far right as they can to get into office. It's a damnable lie, of course, for most of them... But that's what they do.
I understand the self-satisfaction of ideological purity.
There is no self-satisfaction, so you don't know what you're talking about. I didn't create the principles I adhere to - I merely follow them because they are true. It is a way-of-life, in the end, A simple, self-reliant, and humble way. There is no self-satisfaction in adhering to truth. But there is confidence, and faith, and peace.
But the American experiment is about community sown and cultivated from the secular values of hard work, self-reliance, tolerance, opportunity and capitalism. For me, those values are relentlessly promoted and best advanced by the grand center-right coalition represented by the Republican Party.
Absolutely incorrect. Less the Goldwater wing, the Republican party stands for nothing more than 3rd-way socialism, at best, according to their actions as a party.The paucity of principled thought, and the dichotomies raised therein, are absolutely insurmountable. One cannot be pro-capitalism and pro big-government at the same time. They are diametrically opposed and do not exist in the same space.
I have no use for those who want to take their marbles and play in the political corner.
Piss on politics. I couldn't care less for your spineless coalitions, so bent upon ceding truth to falsity. Nothing is new under the sun. The path y'all are on is well worn, and predictable in it's end. You go ahead. Join the masses and beat your damn drum, right down into the valley of destruction. It's gonna be a partay!
Me, I will stay on the rocky way, the way less traveled, and mourn the destruction of what could have been from far away.
The only thing that baffles me is your insistence that I join you in tearing down all that I love. It isn't going to happen. I know where your road goes.