Without people having a say in what goes on in their own country, it's not liberty, peace OR prosperity and the human condition is not "flourishing."

Without democracy, we're at best pampered pets or subjects, not citizens, at worst well-fed slaves "flourishing" by your will... https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008

And not by our own choice or according to our own capabilities, and our purpose in life is not even ours to find, nor do we rise or fall by our own initiative, but all this is instead dictated by the State per its own needs or political doctrines and the dogma of the moment.

That sounds an awful lot like fascism, or maybe Soviet Communism without any of the parts that sort of helped people, sometimes.

Your ideas, Senator, sound pretty damned Soviet to this former Republican.

And I will not live under such a system.

Do you even conservative, bro?

In point of fact, I'd rather DIE than live under the Senator's ideas of me "flourishing" without having a say in HOW.

I'd rather die, with a rifle in my hand if need be, defending the Constitution and country WE ALREADY HAVE as I was once trained to do.

What happened...

...to the basis of conservatism being "Things as they are" not "things as we wish them to be" or reverence for revealed truth or the wisdom of our ancestors who built the small-L, small-D, liberal democratic system that we have?

Flawed as it is, it's better than the alternative.

I don't want what I do for a living, where I live, how much money I make or who I love or where I work or how or even IF I worship God determined by a right-wing apparatchik in Utah anymore than I'd have wanted all that determined by a Communist apparatchik in Moscow.

This kind of bullshit is exactly what I was taught to fight, BECAUSE I'm an American, BY conservatives, BY Christians, because there was a time when people knew their histories and remembered things like that there was a time when people died for the right to read the Word.

Freedom may be messy, but at the end of the day, without it life really isn't worth living because life isn't even ours to live.

If you don't like how others live, LEAD. BY. EXAMPLE. Show them the Truth.

It's on them to follow it, or not.

This has been a conservative argument.

New Blog Post:

It's basically an expanded version of this thread:

https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2020/10/do-you-even-conservative-bro-american.html