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Cary

(11,746 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 01:50 PM Jun 2012

What do you see as the future of "conservatives"?

I am not referring to a new generation. I am referring to this generation--your Eric Cantors, Allen Wests, Paul Ryans, Peter Kings, and so forth. Will these people moderate? It is difficult to conceive of them being more radical, but do you see them getting more radical? Do you think there is any chance of reasoning with them and negotiating with them and coming to any kind of rapprochement with them?

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What do you see as the future of "conservatives"? (Original Post) Cary Jun 2012 OP
Early-onset Alzheimer's HubertHeaver Jun 2012 #1
They will be voted out of office When the voters see that they are getting nothing done... rfranklin Jun 2012 #2
They'll have to reform and moderate taught_me_patience Jun 2012 #3
True. Cary Jun 2012 #4
They failed completely taught_me_patience Jun 2012 #9
The thought of a Romney presidency scares the crap out of me. Initech Jun 2012 #5
They will do and go wherever and whatever their owners demand.. Bandit Jun 2012 #6
For most of them, a nice warm seat in Hell with their name engraved on it. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #7
I see this if they get into power. longship Jun 2012 #8
 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
2. They will be voted out of office When the voters see that they are getting nothing done...
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 01:54 PM
Jun 2012

Unfortunately they will probably be replaced by even more rabid ideologues.

 

taught_me_patience

(5,477 posts)
3. They'll have to reform and moderate
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 02:00 PM
Jun 2012

Strict adherence to their idiology will result in complete failure.

Cary

(11,746 posts)
4. True.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 02:04 PM
Jun 2012

I don't see how you can look at their record and not deem it to be a complete failure. Yet here they are, going in the opposite direction.

I suppose we didn't allow them to fail completely. Are we enabling them?

 

taught_me_patience

(5,477 posts)
9. They failed completely
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 05:45 PM
Jun 2012

I cannot understand how the public hasn't abandoned conservatives for an entire generation. Hell... some of the conservatives are calling for less regulation of Wall Street... even after the complete meltdown of 2008. I'm speechless.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
5. The thought of a Romney presidency scares the crap out of me.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 02:11 PM
Jun 2012

He'll strip what's left of the government and sell it to the highest bidder - just like his days at Bain Capital. He'll appoint supreme court justices scarier than Scalia who will tip that ?court permanently right for the next decades - where they'll overturn Roe V. Wade and further push the agenda of Citizens United. The simple fact is the conservatives want a government like Somalia or Uganda - where there's zero government, no accountability, everyone's religious, everyone has guns and nobody's in charge. That's their idea of a utopia and it must be stopped.

longship

(40,416 posts)
8. I see this if they get into power.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 03:24 PM
Jun 2012





I think if they get in power we will lose civilization. And I see religion as substantially at the core of the problem.
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