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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat 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?
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)rfranklin
(13,200 posts)Unfortunately they will probably be replaced by even more rabid ideologues.
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)Strict adherence to their idiology will result in complete failure.
Cary
(11,746 posts)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)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)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.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)They are bought and paid for....
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)I think if they get in power we will lose civilization. And I see religion as substantially at the core of the problem.