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conservatives were the pioneers of environmentalism., they sought to conserve the environment. A Republican president took the first big steps to do this https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/historyc ... vation.htmCannonpointer » 13 Oct 2014, 1:02 am » wrote: ↑ Conservatism lost it's party in Watergate. Nixon was the last American president that conservatives voted into office. Conservatism had already taken some hard blows. There was Vietnam, an unfortunate tendency toward jingo-patriotism, civil rights, rock music and an energetic counter culture which gave two **** about the Conservatives' moral high ground - which ten years earlier had made conservatives unassailable: masters of the social killing fields.
not cognizant of all the good stuff that was leaving with him, which WASN'T in those bags. The loss is everywhere observed, now - everywhere felt. The thing about conservatism was that it was where we kept our manhood - something you cannot put into bags - but that you cannot have without a certain pair of bags.
The on/off switch that would have prevented the shameful atrocities of abu ghraib was not in conservatism's bag - but I believe that switch hopped the same train that conservatism hopped when we stopped talking to it and stopped listening to it and started sneering at it, and defying it - and failing to imagine a single good thing to say about it. When we told conservatism to take a hike, there were no winners, and the biggest loser was anyone on this planet whose interests are served by America being a just and lawful nation.
I am not suggesting that conseervatism can be expected, if it ever comes home, to restore those things single-handedly. But I CAN promise this: We won't restore this land to justice, to lawfuness or to prosperity WITHOUT conservatism in the partnership that does the heavy lifting.
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Eisenhower was a great conservative, he led the building of the highway interstates and he warned us about the MIC.
conservatives lost their way, along with the whole country after 1969 because of civil rights, integration, etc.. the end of white supremacy in this country and the inception of true modern diversity. No purist of any ideology can survive in diversity, everyone becomes a back stabbing self centered ****.. that’s diversity