GOP has been evil longer than Liz Cheny has been, though. Yet she still enthusiastically joined their ranks. ALL of her current actions are trying to clean and fix their reputation by aiming to expel the loudest and most obvious of their members because those most obvious members are revealing the true goals of the party instead of maintaining the kayfabe that keeps them civilly acceptable.
ALL of the GOP are correctly self-identifying conservatives. They want to maintain traditional values and power structures, even if those traditions stand in the way of fairness, progress, or justice. If they cared more about individual liberties than traditional values, they’d be liberals. If they cared more about the progress of society than traditional values, they’d be progressives. If they cared more about the social good of the nation, they’d be socialists. They tell you firmly and clearly they are none of these things, and they are right.
To be conservative MEANS you do not want a fair, just, sustainable, and successful society. It means you care more about tribe than anything else. To self-identify as conservative is no different than to say you hate and wish to make suffer anyone who doesn’t resemble and support you.
I know what you’re getting at here, but the way you phrased it is 100% wrong. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an expressly anti-slavery party.
The Republican party hasn’t been the party of Lincoln in decades. If you want to find something close to a 1854 Republican, you’ve got to look at the Democrats.
I didn’t say that party matters. I said that you were factually incorrect and refused to admit it. A bit like a child, actually, now that you mention it.
GOP has been evil longer than Liz Cheny has been, though. Yet she still enthusiastically joined their ranks. ALL of her current actions are trying to clean and fix their reputation by aiming to expel the loudest and most obvious of their members because those most obvious members are revealing the true goals of the party instead of maintaining the kayfabe that keeps them civilly acceptable.
ALL of the GOP are correctly self-identifying conservatives. They want to maintain traditional values and power structures, even if those traditions stand in the way of fairness, progress, or justice. If they cared more about individual liberties than traditional values, they’d be liberals. If they cared more about the progress of society than traditional values, they’d be progressives. If they cared more about the social good of the nation, they’d be socialists. They tell you firmly and clearly they are none of these things, and they are right.
To be conservative MEANS you do not want a fair, just, sustainable, and successful society. It means you care more about tribe than anything else. To self-identify as conservative is no different than to say you hate and wish to make suffer anyone who doesn’t resemble and support you.
The GOP evil goes back to the founding of this country. Slavers gonna slave.
I know what you’re getting at here, but the way you phrased it is 100% wrong. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an expressly anti-slavery party.
The Republican party hasn’t been the party of Lincoln in decades. If you want to find something close to a 1854 Republican, you’ve got to look at the Democrats.
That’s just semantic nonsense. The conservative movement in this country is all that matters. Labels are for cereal boxes.
Unless those people are still alive, what labels have been applied previously are irrelevant.
Ah yes, the most pitiful refuge of the factually incorrect: iTs JuSt SemAnTiCs.
Just admit you were wrong and do better. We all make mistakes.
Party doesn’t mater, child. Actions matter. And that party are the Dems now, so you’re wrong twice. How does it feel?
I didn’t say that party matters. I said that you were factually incorrect and refused to admit it. A bit like a child, actually, now that you mention it.
Do better.
LOL