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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:05 AM
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Conservatives what do they conserve?
I wrote this for Unknown News..
n the "conservative" way of blending the sometimes contending requirements of the community and the individual, of individual freedom and individual
responsibility, of limited government and unlimited markets, it always favors the most powerful and their interests first. Their "order" makes sure they are first in line for everything but work, submission, responsibility and deprivation.

The order is switched around rhetorically when it is most convenient to these elites getting theirs. When big uncreative corporations can't deal with the upstart competition of creative people from below outdoing them, then the markets are "too free" and they get limited in the favor of the big gorillas (to preserve the top-down divine order).
If markets make big gorilla monopolies that ruthlessly plunder the people, well, then the big gorillas are just the divine working order of the market.

http://www.unknownnews.org/060502a-Panther.html
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:16 AM
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1. their own power and corruption
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:23 AM
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2. Money
It's been that way forever. The republicans are the planters in the movie "The Cabin In The Cotton".
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:25 AM
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3. they think they are conserving their own wealth
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Pushed To The Left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:26 AM
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4. The status quo
They fight for the status quo in the name of "tradition".
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 07:18 AM
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9. Right. No matter how heinous the status quo is.
As long as it's not hurting them (or, rather, as long as they THINK it's not hurting them.)
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Technowitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:27 AM
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5. Their ethics, morality, and compassion
I mean, they must be! Just look how little they use these qualities!

*snark*
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 01:49 AM
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6. Love that catamount pic
And your sig Technowitch.
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 02:11 AM
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7. The dollar...
for themselves.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 05:57 AM
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8. their power
--For sure not the thoughts that were America and "we the people'
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 07:21 AM
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10. Their money that used to be ours which is now stored away in their bank
accounts.
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