Thank you all for the welcomes. I will answer your questions as well.
OK, I have a question. and Welcome to CC, btw.
I don't understand your statement above. What talks about ISIS are you referring to? And why do they give you hope?
--I don't see the govt doing much of anything. There were 14 airstrikes to free an Iraqi dam, but The US armed and trained ISIS in Syria.
The talks of ISIS regarding combat operations kind of got my hopes up. While, I concur that we aren't doing enough to eliminate and liquidate the threat, it gives me hope that in our republic our representatives have the potential to overcome their ideological differences and have civil discourse and run a government. There's a lot of deadlock and ideological bickering in Congress, and it really upsets me that they are bickering about "me, me, me" instead of focusing on the nation. This gives me hope because they actually are focusing on the nation's needs. Yes, I am an idealist as well, but in a republican system you must have discourse and compromise.
I don't quite understand the difference, as you describe it, of being "more of a social/cultural conservative rather than a fiscal conservative."
Please explain further.
How can the sheer size of government, its bloat and its influence on our fiscal freedom be embraced by a conservative at all?
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Another point--I don't get wrapped up in the "national" versus "country" discourse, believing that to be largely semantics. Different strokes and all, but it's simply not a selling point to me. But by all means, jump in. :cheersmate:
What I mean by that statement is that, I myself would not describe myself as believing the conservative economic policy (e.g., lowering taxes immensely, etc.) , but I still hold the social and cultural policy to heart (e.g., pride in country, militarism, anti-communism, etc.) This does not mean, however, that I tolerate or even advocate for the current state of economic treachery that exists today. I am an economic moderate, not an economic leftist. I acknowledge that there are some problems with over-regulation, fining of businesspeople who have different beliefs than government (e.g., fining of those who refuse to marry gay couples), and that this is causing some real problems which will escalate over time such as outsourcing which is already popular amongst businessmen trying to save a buck. These problems need to be solved, and not increased so our economy goes down the drain while other peoples' social justice feels increase exponentially.
Also, regarding the whole country vs. nation thing, that's your choice. We'll have to agree to disagree, but there's really nothing to debate. So, different strokes.
I hope I answered your questions well. Have a good day.
So...
Smedley here is a National... Socialist?
That's what I read.
He calls himself a "nationalist"; supports the forcible confiscation of the wealth of private citizens and businesses to pay government debt; feels Nazism and fascism are "wholesome"; describes infringement on individual liberty as "nice", and believes the government should ration freedom; believes the government should be the moral agent for all citizens; wants "undesirables" to be spied on by the State; worships the military and law enforcement; and is a high school student.
There is only one conclusion.
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