As a former registered Republican and conservative, I wanted to say a few things about “conservative.” These are just random notes.
The conservative rightly looks at differences in results (so education, wealth) as part of the variability that is inevitable and exists in all nations. Same with the differences in occupations choses by …
As a former registered Republican and conservative, I wanted to say a few things about “conservative.” These are just random notes.
The conservative rightly looks at differences in results (so education, wealth) as part of the variability that is inevitable and exists in all nations. Same with the differences in occupations choses by women compared to men. (And I have read Thomas Sowell on this)
Still he should also reckon on the barriers that we once strongly enforced that kept African Americans and women out of various careers and even college majors.
What should the conservative position be now?
If the time for affirmative action is over now - was it never useful? As someone in college from 1969-73, African Americans were only slowly let into the first rank of colleges. Something surely needed to be done.
Or how about the vexing issue of sexual behavior. As someone who lived through the 1960s and the sexual revolution, is it really conservative to imagine that we can suppress gays? So take back their marriage rights? And how about contraception. Married for 46 years, I suggest that now contraception should be a conservative practice. That is, sex is good for marriage and contraception takes out the concern that every act is rolling the dice re pregnancy. My assumption is that most of my catholic friends have used birth control. And as for protestants and the rest - the same.
Gay marriage is just one more recognition that we all form bonds of affiliation with others. And gays are certainly a large enough minority that most of us should know at least several gays couples. They seem to love each other. Isn’t that great?
I cringe at the social justice catechism that has been thrust upon the media and the rest of us. So no, I won’t tell you my pronoun, and I will never write cis-gender except in this context. And pregnant people - makes me scream.
But if conservatives represent not reasonable people of good will, but shills and liars then the conservative voice will never have a place with reasonable people.
And no, Ted Cruz is not a conservative, he is a demagogue. So it MTG.
The conservative conferences that focus on guns and Christianity would have appalled John Adams (or Abe Lincoln).
As a former registered Republican and conservative, I wanted to say a few things about “conservative.” These are just random notes.
The conservative rightly looks at differences in results (so education, wealth) as part of the variability that is inevitable and exists in all nations. Same with the differences in occupations choses by women compared to men. (And I have read Thomas Sowell on this)
Still he should also reckon on the barriers that we once strongly enforced that kept African Americans and women out of various careers and even college majors.
What should the conservative position be now?
If the time for affirmative action is over now - was it never useful? As someone in college from 1969-73, African Americans were only slowly let into the first rank of colleges. Something surely needed to be done.
Or how about the vexing issue of sexual behavior. As someone who lived through the 1960s and the sexual revolution, is it really conservative to imagine that we can suppress gays? So take back their marriage rights? And how about contraception. Married for 46 years, I suggest that now contraception should be a conservative practice. That is, sex is good for marriage and contraception takes out the concern that every act is rolling the dice re pregnancy. My assumption is that most of my catholic friends have used birth control. And as for protestants and the rest - the same.
Gay marriage is just one more recognition that we all form bonds of affiliation with others. And gays are certainly a large enough minority that most of us should know at least several gays couples. They seem to love each other. Isn’t that great?
I cringe at the social justice catechism that has been thrust upon the media and the rest of us. So no, I won’t tell you my pronoun, and I will never write cis-gender except in this context. And pregnant people - makes me scream.
But if conservatives represent not reasonable people of good will, but shills and liars then the conservative voice will never have a place with reasonable people.
And no, Ted Cruz is not a conservative, he is a demagogue. So it MTG.
The conservative conferences that focus on guns and Christianity would have appalled John Adams (or Abe Lincoln).
Your last sentence - ditto Kravitz, Rockefeller, Eisenhower, Taft and a good portion of Rs in the 50s and 60s. And Nixon.