Why is it so hard being conservative anywhere?

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14 Jun 2016, 10:08 am

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I can't accept this anymore and I feel like I have no recourse. I'm sick about hearing and suffering through all the destruction liberals have done to America. Maybe I should go die in a hole because I can't get along with anybody with a different political view.


One could always find an online group with political view similar to yours.

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I really feel dispirited. Conservatives are only defined by what they are against. Even conservatives in other parts of the world are more centrist than America is.


Being a conservative was long considered an insult here in the Netherlands. But that has changed since Fortuyn, a homosexual who was against gay-marriage (if I remember correctly he considered it fake emancipation) and brought certain issues in to the mainstream political debate.



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14 Jun 2016, 4:23 pm

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You might as well ask "why is it so hard being on the wrong side of history?"

The question answers itself.

Ah you SJWs and your wrong side of history... such arrogance.


Conservatives have opposed civil rights for blacks and other ethnic minorities, opposed civil rights for gays, are obsessed with where trans people go to the toilet, push the teaching of pseudoscience in lieu of evolution, opposed the expansion of the social safety net, etc. That's definitely being on the wrong side of history.


The approximately one million people killed by the South Asian Thuggee cult were also on the wrong side of history. Then later the Thuggee cult itself got on the wrong side of history by being wiped out.

That's because history is just what people do. People who talk about being 'on the right side of history' in order to justify their beliefs are basically admitting they have no principles, and therefore they deserve zero respect.



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14 Jun 2016, 5:00 pm

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Conservatives have opposed civil rights for blacks and other ethnic minorities, opposed civil rights for gays, are obsessed with where trans people go to the toilet, push the teaching of pseudoscience in lieu of evolution, opposed the expansion of the social safety net, etc. That's definitely being on the wrong side of history.


By using such a broad brush to categorize an entire group of people, you exemplify the OP’s premise.


Are you going to tell me that conservatives haven't been on the wrong side of history on those issues I named?


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14 Jun 2016, 5:03 pm

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You might as well ask "why is it so hard being on the wrong side of history?"

The question answers itself.

Ah you SJWs and your wrong side of history... such arrogance.


Conservatives have opposed civil rights for blacks and other ethnic minorities, opposed civil rights for gays, are obsessed with where trans people go to the toilet, push the teaching of pseudoscience in lieu of evolution, opposed the expansion of the social safety net, etc. That's definitely being on the wrong side of history.


The approximately one million people killed by the South Asian Thuggee cult were also on the wrong side of history. Then later the Thuggee cult itself got on the wrong side of history by being wiped out.

That's because history is just what people do. People who talk about being 'on the right side of history' in order to justify their beliefs are basically admitting they have no principles, and therefore they deserve zero respect.


Right is right, and wrong is wrong. The murders of the Thuggee cult was wrong, and so was the American right's support of segregation. Being on the right side of history doesn't just mean you're on the winning side.


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14 Jun 2016, 5:04 pm

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Being conservative, means that I am pro freedom.

So that means I am...

1. Pro-LGBT (because what you do in the privacy of your home or a bathroom stall is no one's business but your own.
2. Pro-Drug (put whatever the hell you want in your body - it's not my problem.
3. Pro-Abortion (people make mistakes, why should an unwanted child have to pay the price?)


You might consider yourself a conservative, but members of the conservative movement would tell you that you aren't.


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14 Jun 2016, 5:09 pm

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You might consider yourself a conservative, but members of the conservative movement would tell you that you aren't.


Funny, I have those exact same beliefs, and people accuse me of being conservative all the time...


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14 Jun 2016, 5:13 pm

Dox47 wrote:
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You might consider yourself a conservative, but members of the conservative movement would tell you that you aren't.


Funny, I have those exact same beliefs, and people accuse me of being conservative all the time...


People consider you a conservative because you typically take the more conservative side of an issue. Also you created thread about being conservative on WP.



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14 Jun 2016, 5:39 pm

Modern liberalism is dressed up as a political ideology, but it is really just a tool used by non-Whites (and one non-White group in particular) to attack White societies. Joe Blow White liberals and Joe Blow White conservatives are too dopey to understand this.

Joe Blow White liberals join in the attack and feel like winners. Joe Blow White conservatives try to defend against an attack whose nature they don't understand, and they wonder why they keep losing. Ask a Joe Blow conservative what they're trying to conserve and why and they don't even know - the answer changes every five years or so.

However, over time even Joe Blow White liberals are going to find that having the "right opinions" isn't enough to save them.

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14 Jun 2016, 5:41 pm

Fiscal conservatism, by definition, must favor smaller govt.

Bigger govt is forever fixing Bastiat's window, like the corporatist version of Munchhausen by proxy.

It's the help you don't need or want.



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14 Jun 2016, 6:04 pm

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People consider you a conservative because you typically take the more conservative side of an issue. Also you created thread about being conservative on WP.


And? I made clear in that thread that I'm not conservative myself, but often function as a sort of unofficial spokesman because I don't like the way conservatives are treated here, none of which has anything to do with my point to Bill.


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14 Jun 2016, 6:10 pm

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However, over time even Joe Blow White liberals are going to find that having the "right opinions" isn't enough to save them.


That's called --
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looking for love in all the wrong places

Some blacks are farming the cities, suggesting autonomy, and saying never to humiliate themselves for n- trinkets (their words.)

The ones we are being shown find World Star Hip Hop infamy, terrorize the Mall of America, hold up ISIS signs, and are accused of radicalizing mass shooters. :|

A frank and honest person should question which blacks he is dealing with.



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14 Jun 2016, 6:19 pm

Dox47 wrote:
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People consider you a conservative because you typically take the more conservative side of an issue. Also you created thread about being conservative on WP.


And? I made clear in that thread that I'm not conservative myself, but often function as a sort of unofficial spokesman because I don't like the way conservatives are treated here, none of which has anything to do with my point to Bill.

Maybe you don't get to hold views repugnant to most of thinking society and not get s**t for it? It's not like conservatives are born that way.



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14 Jun 2016, 6:23 pm

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Are you going to tell me that conservatives haven't been on the wrong side of history on those issues I named?


More Republicans voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act than Democrats.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/politics/civil-rights-act-interesting-facts/


"Virginia's Democratic Rep. Howard W. Smith was a staunch segregationist and strongly opposed the Civil Rights Act.
Smith, who was chairman of the House Rules Committee, came up with many tactics to discourage the passage of the bill's Title VII, which would outlaw employment discrimination because of race, color, religion or national origin."

Also of interest:
On Aug. 8, 1935, Social Security and Medicare passed in the House 372-33, with 81 Republicans voting in support. The next day, the bill was passed in the Senate 77-6, with 16 Republicans supporting the legislation. So Social Security also passed with Republican support.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/28/howard-dean/dean-claims-social-security-and-medicare-were-pass/

Conservatives simply don't tout these achievements as liberals do.



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14 Jun 2016, 6:34 pm

Don't use the phrase "wrong side of history" it's silly propaganda overused during the cold war and look how that ended for both sides. The Soviet Union is dismantled, a strong anti-Marxist state is rising from its ashes and America has become the spiritual successor to that same empire and is busy flushing itself down the toilet.


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14 Jun 2016, 6:50 pm

Shrapnel wrote:
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Are you going to tell me that conservatives haven't been on the wrong side of history on those issues I named?


More Republicans voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act than Democrats.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/politics/civil-rights-act-interesting-facts/


"Virginia's Democratic Rep. Howard W. Smith was a staunch segregationist and strongly opposed the Civil Rights Act.
Smith, who was chairman of the House Rules Committee, came up with many tactics to discourage the passage of the bill's Title VII, which would outlaw employment discrimination because of race, color, religion or national origin."

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Democrat didn't mean liberal back then. All the racists joined the Republican party after that. They were known as Dixiecrats. Forget wrong side of history, try learning history.



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14 Jun 2016, 6:54 pm

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Maybe you don't get to hold views repugnant to most of thinking society and not get s**t for it? It's not like conservatives are born that way.


Sober up and get back to me when you make sense.


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