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Thomas Jefferson: Hello Colonists, here's your Declaration of Independence.
Colonists: Where's my damn Guarantee?
Ben Franklin: Well, we can't guarantee it's going to be all sunshine and lollypops anytime in the foreseeable future but we don't think the status quo is particularly brilliant.
Colonists: Nah, I'll keep bowing down to the King then because I need a guarantee.
I guess he missed the definition of conservatism: opposition to change. Another indictment.
That's my main problem with Conservatism, the total inflexibility when it comes to change, even if it's 100% correct and needed.
originally posted by: Identified
I agree.
I'm wondering if they realize how much they sound like socialists wanting nanny-state to keep them safe even as the govt ingrains more and more "protections" that allow the police to violate everyone's rights.
The cognitive dissonance is strong in some folks.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
The process leading up to the American Revolution was filled with the Colonists doing everything they could to appease the King. They wrote letters, visited him across a wide ocean, protested, begged, pleaded, reasoned... and even after the Revolution broke out, quite a few still didn't want to revolt. They wanted a guarantee.
originally posted by: ketsuko
The radicals want to police gone.
But most people don't.
You already stated that you do have county and state police, in a rural area. You obviously don't understand the problem if you think that not having a city police department in a rural area is the same as not having a police department in a city, and if you think this is about what law enforcement is called.
originally posted by: Identified
No matter what angle he wants to focus on regarding the American Revolution it isn't going to help him.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: face23785
Sampling is a well-established and sound method. That's not why polls wind up being inaccurate. Polls wind up being inaccurate because of pollster bias.
Then you trust them, I don't.
And it still doesn't minimize my point, people are going to take the money if someone else doesn't.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: Identified
I'm not understanding all the hysteria over some self-governance, requiring govt accountability, and trying something new.
That's my main problem with Conservatism, the total inflexibility when it comes to change, even if it's 100% correct and needed.
originally posted by: face23785
Considering you've had several truckers come in here and correct you, maybe you should tone down the arrogance? Especially when it's unjustified, as in this case.