Powerful conversation. I love what Professor George said about standing up for what you believe in, but be willing to take the slings and arrows. That's what makes Justice Thomas so compelling. Along with Glenn, John, Sowell, Steele, and the list goes on.
Many of us see women with failed pregnancies being forced to deliver, banning books, putting forth fake electors, supporting a conman for President, and suggesting dictatorship as modern Conservative values.
Better than infanticide, porning-up elementary and middle schools, rioting, rampant crime, ethnic spoils systems, purposeful dismantling of industrial civilization, and criminalizing the political opposition, which appear to be the defining traits of the contemporary left.
(There is a better-faith and more nuanced version of this critique I could offer, but in light of your comment, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander)
(1) "Infanticide"/Abortion: Many immoral things are popular. That doesn't make them good.
(2) "Porning Up Schools": I commend to your attention the following titles - "Nick and Charlie” by Alice Oseman, "Genderqueer" by Maia Kobabe, and "Flamer" by Nick Curato, all of which have been widely reported to be found in school libraries, as well as the coverage of the California sex education curriculum module, which runs K-12. There is quite a lot of reporting on these issues, as they've sparked a lot of protest.
(3) "Ethnic Spoils" - DEI ethnic mandates and quotas, such as California Corporations Code sections 301.3, 301.4, 2115.5 and 2115.6, which is reprised in corporate and state hiring programs, academic scholarship offerings, and many other places throughout the country.
(4) "Crime" - Murders remain 50% higher than 2014 levels. (https://shorturl.at/auCHU). The proportions of retailers reporting theft of more than 2% of their total sales also increased by 50% from 2014. (https://shorturl.at/eCFJ9 [Fig. 2 at pg. 5]). DC has seen carjacking incidents nearly double in a single year. (https://shorturl.at/dfmpK)
(5) "Rioting" - Not January 6 (though when Democrats storm legislative buildings for the purpose of impeding official business they stay for days [https://shorturl.at/koxSY]) - the $1bn. of damages caused by BLM riots, the leftist riots outside the White House in 2020 (who got paid for their trouble, by the way - https://shorturl.at/bvMV0), and again just now (https://shorturl.at/sMU45), as well as the constant leftist blockages of major trafficways.
(6) "Criminalizing Opposition" - Not only did Democrat officials get elected specifically on the platform of "getting Trump," there's the Whitmer "fednapping" entrapment scheme, and the general sentencing disparity that has the 1/6 prosecutions officially going as the longest RICO prosecution in US history (while the rest of DC crime goes out of control and murderers get lesser sentences than grandmas who filed into the capitol and gawped around for a bit and left peaceably). There might not be protests on Hunter's behalf, but there didn't have to be - the Democratic party got four dozen intelligence officials to knowingly lie and claim that real evidence of his wrongdoing "had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation" and get it censored from the internet during the height of a presidential campaign.
I could go on further, but frankly I have better things to do. I hope this leads you to reflect and think that your opponents might have spent at least as much time considering their beliefs as you have yours.
Powerful conversation. I love what Professor George said about standing up for what you believe in, but be willing to take the slings and arrows. That's what makes Justice Thomas so compelling. Along with Glenn, John, Sowell, Steele, and the list goes on.
What do modern Conservatives stand for?
Many of us see women with failed pregnancies being forced to deliver, banning books, putting forth fake electors, supporting a conman for President, and suggesting dictatorship as modern Conservative values.
Better than infanticide, porning-up elementary and middle schools, rioting, rampant crime, ethnic spoils systems, purposeful dismantling of industrial civilization, and criminalizing the political opposition, which appear to be the defining traits of the contemporary left.
(There is a better-faith and more nuanced version of this critique I could offer, but in light of your comment, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander)
The public supports abortion ( which I assume you are calling infanticide)
When abortion is put to a vote even in Red states, legal abortion wins
You clown yourself, what does “ porning up” schools even mean?
By rioting are you talking about January 6th?
Violent crime is dramatically decreased
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesfarrell/2023/12/29/homicides-see-historic-decline-in-2023-despite-perceptions-that-crime-is-on-the-rise/?sh=375879cd76e7
By ethnic spoils do you mean legacy admissions?
Republicans seem to be the ones ready to put political opponents in prison
Trump wanted to lock up Hillary Clinton
Trump says he will imprison current political opponents if re-elected
You nonsensical post proves that you have no nuanced critique
You want a system where only laws you support are to be obeyed
Republicans are arguing Trump’s crimes should go unpunished
There are no protests to keep Hunter Biden from facing trial
There are no public protests to keep Bob Menendez from facing trial
Trump supporters are threatening and swatting judges, election workers, court officials, etc.
I always laugh when Republicans/Conservatives present themselves as morality barometers
BTW, your leader Marjorie Taylor Greene is an adulteress who practices tantric sex
Lauren Bobert publicly groped her companion’s private parts
Trump is a convicted sex offender
You have no nuance
You clowned yourself
(1) "Infanticide"/Abortion: Many immoral things are popular. That doesn't make them good.
(2) "Porning Up Schools": I commend to your attention the following titles - "Nick and Charlie” by Alice Oseman, "Genderqueer" by Maia Kobabe, and "Flamer" by Nick Curato, all of which have been widely reported to be found in school libraries, as well as the coverage of the California sex education curriculum module, which runs K-12. There is quite a lot of reporting on these issues, as they've sparked a lot of protest.
(3) "Ethnic Spoils" - DEI ethnic mandates and quotas, such as California Corporations Code sections 301.3, 301.4, 2115.5 and 2115.6, which is reprised in corporate and state hiring programs, academic scholarship offerings, and many other places throughout the country.
(4) "Crime" - Murders remain 50% higher than 2014 levels. (https://shorturl.at/auCHU). The proportions of retailers reporting theft of more than 2% of their total sales also increased by 50% from 2014. (https://shorturl.at/eCFJ9 [Fig. 2 at pg. 5]). DC has seen carjacking incidents nearly double in a single year. (https://shorturl.at/dfmpK)
(5) "Rioting" - Not January 6 (though when Democrats storm legislative buildings for the purpose of impeding official business they stay for days [https://shorturl.at/koxSY]) - the $1bn. of damages caused by BLM riots, the leftist riots outside the White House in 2020 (who got paid for their trouble, by the way - https://shorturl.at/bvMV0), and again just now (https://shorturl.at/sMU45), as well as the constant leftist blockages of major trafficways.
(6) "Criminalizing Opposition" - Not only did Democrat officials get elected specifically on the platform of "getting Trump," there's the Whitmer "fednapping" entrapment scheme, and the general sentencing disparity that has the 1/6 prosecutions officially going as the longest RICO prosecution in US history (while the rest of DC crime goes out of control and murderers get lesser sentences than grandmas who filed into the capitol and gawped around for a bit and left peaceably). There might not be protests on Hunter's behalf, but there didn't have to be - the Democratic party got four dozen intelligence officials to knowingly lie and claim that real evidence of his wrongdoing "had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation" and get it censored from the internet during the height of a presidential campaign.
I could go on further, but frankly I have better things to do. I hope this leads you to reflect and think that your opponents might have spent at least as much time considering their beliefs as you have yours.
If a child brings a book home that goes against heir standards take it back to the school
Librarians are happy that children are reading
Corporations are making records profits
Go DEI
Crime is going down
January 6th was an attack on democracy
Politicians run to defeat their political opponents.
Nothing you posted requires reflection