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14. I wish we had another word. Conservative used to be...

Fri Oct 5, 2018, 10:36 AM

Oct 2018

... a word that defined people with a different economic, judicial, and governmental philosophy than us. Conservatives at their best were people that thought there were better ways to achieve the common good than ours. (They were mistaken, of course, but there you go.) We could agree on the goal and disagree on the means to achieve it. Now that the GOP has been so totally overtaken by deplorables (yes, Hillary, that's the right word), there's no place for the remnants to go. That's why I'm reluctant to give the deplorables ownership of the word "conservative." We need to preserve the idea of a loyal opposition.

Other than that, spot on characterization of the deplorables.

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You are being too nice! dchill Oct 2018 #36

A most succinct definition. Sarg Oct 2018 #29

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