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Crunchy Frog

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9. I hate the misuse of the word "conservative".

Reply to potone (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 6, 2017, 02:36 AM

Jan 2017

They are not conservatives at all, but radical right wingers. I can respect a conservative, but I can never respect a radical right winger.

I'm not sure that they even qualify as libertarians. The people pulling the strings are basically kleptocrats.

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President Dwight Eisenhower, Republican, uttered these words on November 8, 1954: [View all] elleng Jan 2017 OP

That may have been true in his time. MadamPresident Jan 2017 #1

This 'conservatism' is nothing like conservative, elleng Jan 2017 #2

Exactly! potone Jan 2017 #3

I wouldn't call them 'libertarians,' more like simply elleng Jan 2017 #7

I hate the misuse of the word "conservative". Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #9

It's not a cult, it's a contagious mental illness. herding cats Jan 2017 #4

Is that not exactly what a cult does? MadamPresident Jan 2017 #5

Yes and no. herding cats Jan 2017 #8

He was unduly optimistic, unfortunately. Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #6