http://www.secularconservative.net/conservative/republicans-as-a-popular-conservative-movement/ Mon, 10 May 2010 01:39:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.secularconservative.net/conservative/republicans-as-a-popular-conservative-movement/#comment-5527 Cephus Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:59:42 +0000 http://www.secularconservative.net/?p=414#comment-5527 The problem is, Republicans have basically reversed their positions entirely. They used to be fiscally conservative, small government and low taxes, and on the social side, they were essentially hands-off. Now, they're socially conservative, they want to control what everyone does in their bedroom, what people read, what people watch, how people think and they're essentially hands-off on the fiscal side at best, insane liberal spending machines at worst. But so long as they keep *CALLING* themselves conservatives, even if they aren't, they can con a significant portion of the voting conservative public into supporting them because these people are voting for a name, not a position. Very few people who I would consider classical conservatives would agree with anything that the RNC is doing today, but a lot of them keep voting for them because they can't tell the difference between the conservatism that was and the neo-conservatism that usurped the name today. The problem is, Republicans have basically reversed their positions entirely. They used to be fiscally conservative, small government and low taxes, and on the social side, they were essentially hands-off. Now, they’re socially conservative, they want to control what everyone does in their bedroom, what people read, what people watch, how people think and they’re essentially hands-off on the fiscal side at best, insane liberal spending machines at worst. But so long as they keep *CALLING* themselves conservatives, even if they aren’t, they can con a significant portion of the voting conservative public into supporting them because these people are voting for a name, not a position. Very few people who I would consider classical conservatives would agree with anything that the RNC is doing today, but a lot of them keep voting for them because they can’t tell the difference between the conservatism that was and the neo-conservatism that usurped the name today.

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