Posted on 02/09/2018 10:03:34 AM PST by Kaslin
Allow me educate you about protectionism from the 1924 Republican platform.
We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.
So classical conservatism is protectionist, Neo Conservatism, ala Bully Kristol, is for free trade even if we are getting screwed when other countries protect their markets with tariffs. SO NOW YOU KNOW Conservatism includes protectionism!
Socialists love free trade. Marx wrote extensively about it and was a big proponent of free trade. So if you are free trader you are Marxist tool
Pat would have made an excellent president. There have been many fine candidates in the primaries and too many of them get media smeared out.
So true; but they will; definitely; PISS YOU OFF!
That is the purpose. People make mistakes when they are angry. President Trump appears to be calm and takes his time to respond. Every lie, every taunt, every bigoted label the left uses against that does not get a response weakens them, not President Trump.
So true.
I’m working on a little project myself right now.
“I am not willing to play nice while the left demonize me, my family, my culture, my nation.”
Neither am I. It’s time the gloves come off.
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My voting since 1992 -
Perot
No one in 1996
Bush
Bush
McCain
Romney
Trump ——but favored Scott Walker until Trump jumped in.
I worked for Pat and Perot in 1992. Frank Luntz worked for both...definitely for Pat. Luntz strolled into the Pat Buchanan operation one day wearing a big ol’ brimmed hat. hahahha
The Republicans of 1924 supported and gave WMDs to the Marxist regime of Mexico so the Marxists could expand their genocide of the devout Catholics and libertarians who were fighting for religious freedom.
And you call those Marxist loving Republican Conservative?
I am a real conservative. Not a Bushbot NWO globalist Free Traitor™ neo-con, like you.
Buchanan is right. So many elite “conservatives” are vested in the status quo more than the Constitution. Sometimes also it seems their personal desires are of higher priority than the desperate need of the American People to be free of controlling government. Their social acceptance, sex lives, access to streams of income, are paramount. They’ll sell us right down the river.
Thank you, Mr. Buchanan, for giving me a new label I can identify as. I now can come out of the closet and identify fully as an Anti-Progressive. No genital surgery required.
To me, the word “conservative” doesn’t mean what the media uses it as. It means to me that I revere the Constitution as written, respect the official ways it can be changed, and resonate with the longings and rights in the Declaration, of our People to be truly free.
It doesn’t reflect on my religion or way of life. Because if you are a Contitutional Conservative, you would fight to the death for your fellow American’s right to live as a Christian, a Wiccan, an atheist, a hippie, a Buddhist monk. More important THAN a religion is our right to practice a religion or lifestyle (that doesn’t hurt others).
It values freedom as God given rights to choose among various good, but not the license to choose, unpunished, between good and evil.
An individual is free to choose evil. He is even free by his Creator to choose evil, not that Gd doesn’t mourn when he does so. An individual, if caught harming another, can be stopped by the government from committing more evil. Hopefully. But even under the Constitution a man can sit in his house and dream of poisoning puppies and raping bunnies. It’s not our purvey to stop him.
I appreciate some of his commentary but I was unhappy with his demeanor toward my coreligionists so would not have voted for him. Maybe that would have been a mistake as he might have been much better than Bush, but it doesn’t matter any more.
Much of law is enforcing morality. For instance to force completion of contract or pay damages is just that.
I’m not following your comment?
Right. Once the evil is out in the open, and enforceable, true.
He did seem a bit anti Semitic. It kept me from considering him. Also, I stupidly fell for the Bush apologists and promoters in the “right wing” media at the time. Like 95% of all FReepers.
You mean anti-Israel. You are an American, like me. My allegiance lies here not with Scotland, or England.
For some libertarian purists, the single most important litmus test for "conservatism" is a commitment to unrestricted trade (at the US end). These are the ones who complain about Trump not being conservative enough for them for ideological reasons. The rest of it is just sour grapes from GOP establishmentarians like the Bushes.
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