Some thoughts on conservatism

con‧serv‧a‧tive  /kənˈsɜrvətɪv/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kuhn-sur-vuh-tiv] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
2. cautiously moderate or purposefully low: a conservative estimate.
3. traditional in style or manner; avoiding novelty or showiness: conservative suit.

1. Why would anyone want to be considered a conservative given the great conservative parties of the past - Tories, Confederate States of America, KKK, Know nothing party?

2. Given that every republican since and including Reagan have totally betrayed conservative principles, why do they keep voting republican? Is it because they are too chicken to nominate a third party candidate?

3. Exactly what have conservatives ever done for this country? Not universal suffrage, not civil rights, not the declaration of independence, not the constitution, not the bill of rights, not social security, not preparing for WWII, not the Marshall plan.


Franklin Delano Roosevelt - We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
The Republican Party - Fear everything

American Motto - Old - Land of the Free Home of the Brave
New - Land of the spied upon Home of the Chicken