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originally posted by: buster2010
Drag unruly children into the public square and stone them for not minding their parents?
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
TEA party people OUTSIDE of the political machine (BOTH sides ARE screwing with the original grassroots effort we ignore them) ARE libertarians. as I define them by my own.MONEY hijacked it .
originally posted by: BasementWarriorKryptonite
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: Tangerine
JUST as bad as the progressives with LESS interoperability with humanity.
I'm sorry, it could be that I'm a stupid idiot, but I don't think it is - what is wrong with being progressive?
Edit: I'm out of the loop on American political language.
originally posted by: HauntWok
Sounds like typical conservative ideology to me.
Wanting to regulate morality, but conservatives want less government in peoples private lives.
Yeah, right.
originally posted by: HauntWok
a reply to: beezzer
This guy wants to regulate sexuality. Imprison American citizens for whom they wish to have consensual sex with.
And your for this? And you don't think that it's more government intrusion into peoples private lives?
This guy represents the failure, the cognitive disconnect from reality that is all too prevalent in conservatism.
This idea is wrong and should be opposed. But conservatives will back it 100% because it's what they really believe.
This isn't equality, this isn't less regulation into peoples lives, it's more regulation, it's less equality, and you want this?
originally posted by: HauntWok
a reply to: beezzer
I'm not for regulating consensual sex between adults no.
But apparently you are because you appear to be defending this ideology.
originally posted by: HauntWok
a reply to: NavyDoc
this guy is a marginalized and ignored loon to conservatives.
I wish that were true, but this is mainstream conservatism today.
This isn't the fringe of the movement, its smack dead center at the heart of the conservative base.
originally posted by: beezzer
I honestly believe that many of us who call ourselves (libertarian, conservative etc) are confusing the more leftist of the membership here.
Since their ideology is practically in lock-step with each other, they assume that the opposite aspect must also be in lock-step with everyone else who calls themselves "conservative".
I would think that ideology could be separated by simply asking, "Do you want more government or less?"
"Do want more freedom or less?"
"Do you want more laws, or less?"
This "pastor" to my humble tiny mind looks and sounds more like a big government/more laws/less freedoms, control-freak than anything else.