Re: The American 2016 Presidential Elections & The Ongoing American Saga
Reply #844 –
No, I notice what actually happens when they come to power. This is every single time. Put them in Congress and they act like kindergartners, shutting down the government and lowering the country's credit rating if they don't get what they want. These children need to go to reform school. BTW, I probably know more about conservatism than you, having come from a true conservative family and having lived in conservative parts of the country. The brand of conservatism that taken over the GOP isn't small government at all. It's descended from the old "dixiecrats" that defected to the Republican party as result of civil rights granted to African Americans. Having lived in their heartland, I can tell you that those folks are socially conservative but are big government authoritarian, despite claims otherwise. To them, freedom means the right to discriminate and screw everybody else's constitutional rights.
You might read American Thinker and similar sites that gush about small government, but that's not what happens when they get elected and that authoritarian streak takes over. You lived in Massachusetts and California, but I lived in deep Red country, so perhaps you haven't seen what happens when the new "dixiecrats" with an R by their name take over a state, but I have.