re: List of policies/stances. Do you agree with Them?

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enduring moral order

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Please give more details. Who gets to decide what is moral and what isn't? Is gambling moral? Many would say no. Should it be legal? Yes. It should also be regulated to ensure the house doesn't tip the scales too much in their favor.

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at what point does that disrupt society

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Who do you trust enough to make this call?

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at what point does that disrupt society


Who do you trust enough to make this call?

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when we notice
as we have
Sometimes it takes a while as it took a while for the mistake of slavery to be corrected
And sometimes it gets violent as in the case of the Civil War

Hopefully if that happens or after that happens we return to order
and then we enact changes through the political process as is happening

can it be taken too far?

yes,, that's when it ceases to be Traditional Conservatism

populism .. left or right has been a vehicle to attempt this in the past

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The Constition being a living document

Only progs say this shite.

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Why I said no

but I wanted to see how long it took for someone to pick up on it congratulations
This is why I say so many on this board will call themselves conservatives don't know what Conservatism is

Sounds like heaven.

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There is much duality on the PT

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Yes, much of it is very self-unaware
by choice,, stubbornness, fear of examination,
ignorance due to fragileness of mind,, worse than stupidity,its a weakness
not of ability but of fear and laziness


I can call myself tall, but it doesn't mean I am tall
but if I'm amongst a group of pygmies Im tall
if I'm amongst a bunch of NBA players I'm short

but location doesn't change the measurement,,only the perception
on this board to a greater extent self-perception

I'm 5'"8 which tends on the shorter side of the American average of 5'9"

But I have this sense to know what tall or short are the average is and I can make an honest comparison of my height to that and say I'm not tall but nor what I call myself short but I could be called shorter than average


A lot of people on this board call themselves conservative and have no idea what conservative or conservatism is
not by definition
nor by history
nor by generally accepted qualifications

and its not up to me there are 1000s of years of history that establish the parameters

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I'm not sure why anyone would disagree with any of that outside of maybe "enduring moral order" & "sanctity of life" (that gets tricky depending on the specific scenario).

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Exactly. The debate isn't about what politicians say. It's about what they do and want to do.

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Yes, much of it is very self-unaware
by choice,, stubbornness, fear of examination,
ignorance due to fragileness of mind,, worse than stupidity,its a weakness
not of ability but of fear and laziness


I can call myself tall, but it doesn't mean I am tall
but if I'm amongst a group of pygmies Im tall
if I'm amongst a bunch of NBA players I'm short

but location doesn't change the measurement,,only the perception
on this board to a greater extent self-perception

I'm 5'"8 which tends on the shorter side of the American average of 5'9"

But I have this sense to know what tall or short are the average is and I can make an honest comparison of my height to that and say I'm not tall but nor what I call myself short but I could be called shorter than average


A lot of people on this board call themselves conservative and have no idea what conservative or conservatism is
not by definition
nor by history
nor by generally accepted qualifications

and its not up to me there are 1000s of years of history that establish the parameters

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Damn all that word salad, just say the PT is full of dullards, we all know it already.

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Everyone needs to understand the US spends more on its military budget than the next 9 nations combined......allow that to marinate.

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U.S. is a global currency and the Petro dollar because we have 11 aircraft carriers saying it is.

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we

the American people

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The american people are governed by a republic. This means we democratically elect representatives.

Which representatives have you ever trusted enough to be able to make a call about which behaviour is immoral to the point of restricting personal liberty and which behaviour is not?