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@SupermanHopkins

And that's why the TEA parties started in the Republican Party. Fiscal conservativism has been a part of it for a long time. During Bush, conservatives were angry at the spending that the Republican Party was pushing. As a result they stayed away from the polls and the Republic...

@criticalthinker7419

By whom? Don't want to make an ad hominem, but people do have interests. That's why we don't give much credit to the research coming out of the Institutes for Reasonable Smoking Laws. (You gotta verify, and social "science" is notoriously difficult. Please cite.) But moreov...

@mikebee02

The same way you shoot a representative in Arizona by drawing a bullseye in Alaska?

@ElTorroist

You pretend to is because there is a police force and a military. Private armies are a recipe for chaos + strife. See: Middle Ages, ancient Rome. The level of spending on a military is open to debate. But to not participate is to lose sight of why and how societies form in the first ...

Depends on the libertarian. Many are actually libertines, missing the distinction between freedom and power, the former being built on responsibility, the latter being its denial. Many of Zo's arguments are specious (and open to empirical tests) - do I want to live in a drugged-out society? Who s...

@kurousaginoyami

The answer, to be honest, is that as long as it's THEIR government shutting the other guy down, most people will be in favor of it. "Your Inquisitor does not believe in God. That's his secret." MANY people who talk a game about caring about the little guy have no such actual ca...

Wrong. The 5th circle of hell is not moderate, no matter how evenly you split it between the 9th and the 1st.

The ONLY moderate position is the libertarian one, because it allows people like you to do what you wish, and people like me to do what I wish. It allows for neither right-wing collectiv...

@bricitybrac

Yes, it was. Let's get the French out of the way: imperialist jacks who screwed things up? Oui! That said, South Vietnamese do not see themselves as the same as North Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh invaded South Viet Nam before the ink was dry on the Geneva Accords. (The Mekong Delta's lo...

@collingsm

That's wrong. You're confusing conservatives with Republican politicians. They are not nearly the same thing. If they were, you wouldn't be seeing the Tea Party today. That Tea Party, it can't be noted enough, is a product of anger at Republican establishment politicians. Not the Dem...

@Cyrus255

Older than Clinton/Bush. Try Adams, Roosevelt + Kennedy.