Conservative core values

[Ricter]

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

All other rights flow from property rights.

There is no right to anything that others have to subsidize.

An armed society is a safe, polite society.

The problem with urban education is cultural not financial.

Throw those lines out, fill in the blanks and with any luck you'll probably never have to endure this type of evening again.

ps. I am assuming none of these people have any power over you or your gf's career, academic life, etc because liberals treat people with dissenting opinions as normal people treat cockroaches on the kitchen floor.

The focus on property rights first, that is a very Randian approach, is it not?

Love that bumper sticker, about an armed society. : )

They have no power over me, they'd probably love to work for me.

You think liberals are that way?? Just asking my simple brand of dialectical question, exact thing I do here, got me banned from conservativesforum.com in just 7 posts!

 

[kut2k2]

Quote from Ricter:

I'm a bit disappointed that one of my leftist brethren would do this, in this thread. Perhaps I'm too often sarcastic and my premise was not taken seriously.

I apologize. I thought you were soliciting contributions from anyone. And I was serious. If those aren't core conservative values, why were/are they so enthusiastically supported?

 

[unretired]

Quote from Ricter:

Great clips, thank you.

Re the first clip, is there some internal contradiction in that republicanism, rule by law, is dependent upon democracy, rule by the majority, to establish the laws?

No ... not at all ... it allows for self corrective government where there is individual representation.

It is design ... republic doesn't equal republican and democracy doesn't equal democrat.
The government types are delineated so as to eliminate confusion and
provide some roots to government types and platforms.

This is why there can and should be a successful independent party.
The Dems and Repubs have left any sense of legitimate platform long ago ...
they now are both corrupt.

We are a very long way from the founders draft today.

 

[Gabfly1]

A conservative core value for your consideration: where there may be a divergence, religion usually trumps humanism. Accordingly, faith usually trumps reason at points of divergence. This observation may not apply to all self-styled conservatives, but it serves as a useful generalization.

 

[Barth Vader]

Quote from Spydertrader:

Actually, the beauty of The United States Constitution stems from the fact that it does not do that which you claim.

- Spydertrader

Yes, thank you for correcting me, it was obviously the Declaration of Independence that I had in my mind.

 

[kut2k2]

Quote from Ricter:

The gf has lassoed me into a discussion night with two other couples. We're going to dinner, watch some controversial video (politics or religion for sure) at a lecture hall, then off to drinks and the discussion.

Well? What happened?

 

[Ricter]

Quote from kut2k2:

Well? What happened?

The night fizzled, no discussion.


But I would like to hear from anyone here why they believe there isn't even a little irony to the fact that a republic, supposedly superior to a pure democracy (with which I agree) still requires the action of democracy to create the laws in the first place. I'm not implying that there might be a better way...