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A lot of people who describe themselves as "conservative" have completely abandoned formerly conservative values: the rule of law, moral integrity, personal hum
by loudmax 1y ago
A lot of people who describe themselves as "conservative" have completely abandoned formerly conservative values: the rule of law, moral integrity, personal humility, and so on. I'd prefer we not call these people "conservative" because those old values have real merit.
- monero-xmr 1y agoI live in a major American city run by progressive democrats, like all major American cities, and petty crime is rampant. The "rule of law" here doesn't seem to apply to anything except murders because reporting anything else takes hours at the station to even get them to file a report, let alone solve anything (hah!). Even worse, the apparatchiks that run local politics never believe anything they do is wrong and entirely lack personal humility. It is hard to square this being a "Republicans Only!" problem when I see so much of the same all around me.
- notahacker 1y ago"the rule of law" doesn't mean miraculously eliminating petty crime, it means believing that the administration itself should try not to conspicuously break it on a regular basis...
- monero-xmr 1y agoWhere I live, laws are broken routinely, and criminals are let out of prison with a slap on the wrist
- oezi 1y agoYet prisons are overfull everywhere in America
- monero-xmr 1y agoMaybe we need more prisons
- bediger4000 1y agoSee, here's the problem. You've revealed yourself as a conservative, at least in social issues, and that usually comes with all the conservative beliefs. Why should we believe you, why should we believe you're not just taking some position today that makes you money at the expense of the rest of us? That's why 180 degree policy reversals are weird. I just don't know what to believe about what you're writing - sincere position or throwaway trolling.
- tremon 1y agoYou already said that you lived in the US, no need to repeat it.