"Conservatives" are traitors.

[Cary]

181. I doubt it.

I have more confidence in our traditions than you have.

We have seen iterations of "conservatives" before. Rightists go collectively over the cliff every other generation or so. This too shall pass for the same reasons that the Soviet Union failed (which wasn't because of Ronald Reagan). The Soviet Union failed exactly for the reasons George F. Kennan gave for containment policy: the Soviet Union would fail from its own internal inconsistencies.

At the end of the day the Soviet Union was broke from its poor economic model, trying to keep its empire intact, and fighting an ill-advised war. It turned out that even the Soviet military wasn't anything near what the fear mongers made it out to be. Maybe Reagan pushed them over the edge with his military spending, but I doubt it. I give way more credit to Lech Walessa and Gorbechev than I would give to Reagan.

The "conservative" model is no more sustainable than the Soviet model. Look at what "conservatives" do when they are in power. Do they cut debt? Hell no they don't. What happens when the top 1% no longer have any taxes to cut?

One can only ride so far on a vehicle fueled by bullshit but that doesn't mean I'm going to be an apologist for them. They are killing the goose the laid the golden egg, which is the American consumer. They are snuffing out our prosperity and without our prosperity, what are we?