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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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- Most conservatives really don't give two shits about gay marriage. So any conservative who continues to harp about it as some kind of major issue is out of touch
- What you want to call yourself ("Counterrevolutionary" or whatever was suggested) is pretty irrelevant. What matters is what you do, not what you call yourself
- There's definitely some strong-handed suggestions here (I bolded those) which could be seen as gov't overreach, but I don't see any calls for riots or violence. And in order to implement any potential gov't overreach, first you have to win elections
Still overall an interesting find, and it's always good to be reading what the other side is thinking/doing
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This is precisely why I posted it, but I also think it's why this person wrote the whole thing. Despite me shitposting I do read a lot about the people I oppose. That guy is trying to tweak the 'conservative project' because I think some of them are aware that they are, in no way, 'small government'. I think what you call yourself matters to some extent or these people wouldn't push back on being called fascists. (I call them fascists, and they always push back on that, so I'll keep doing it) Nobody ever thinks that they are the badguy
I want to believe that the right-wing libertarian segments of the modern Republican party will correctly call this kind of stuff this person suggests fundamentally anti-liberty, should it become policy like this person wants, but I'm not exactly holding my breath on them. Rand Paul is still one of their primary personalities and that dude tucks tail and shows his belly to more powerful conservatives all the time.
I gotta disagree with you on the gay marriage thing, though. I think there's a lot of animus about that and they've been seething over it for years, just like they did abortion. It's a mistake to pretend that Evangelicals aren't a huge force in their ranks. Right-wing Evangelicals can justify absolutely any horror imaginable. They had to brainwash themselves into calling Trump "Cyrus" so that they could cover their asses, but people have been using Biblical allegories to excuse atrocities for centuries so that's nothing new.
Plus, I have to disagree with you on the call for violence. While they aren't the type to riot, not since the late 1770's, but that's certainly a call for violence in the subtext. A 'dramatic expansion of the criminal code'... as if we don't already have millions of people incarcerated who don't deserve it. Who do you think would be doing the arresting of these people this author suggests arresting? The state would, through law enforcement officers. The state has a monopoly on 'legitimate' violence. Incarceration always involves the threat of violence, and being in prison itself absolutely involves the threat of violence.