At least your ignorant drift into a mad max scenario would be fiscally responsible, with wars on everything and eternal quantitative easing. Too big to fail.
Except they have literally stated that they want to destroy the system. Besides them stating it, look what they are doing, they are quite literally trying to destroy the system as it stands so they can implement their own.
How do you breathe with your head so far in the sand?
There was no American constitution before the revolution ... they had to fight for it to be even written. I think you need to look up what conservative in politics means .
No crap? wow I didnt know that.
That is not what I said at all either, reading comprehension is key.
Im in my 60s im well aware of what conservative means, because I R one.
But please junior , please explain to me what went down in history, from your revisionist ideology.
I was in school when they actually taught history, people still knew what the bill of rights was, and could recite it. People knew the branches of the government and what they were responsible for.
How could American citizens be conservative to the non existent constitution? The British were imposing their might on the colonies, to keep them under their thumb, via taxes and military bullying.
The citizens of the Americas were fed up, and took to liberal and left leaning politics in the form of libertarianism to rid the British.
Where does conservatism fit in with people of the new world? They didn't want the same old, they wanted change.
Liberalism, true liberalism, is advocating a state of liberty, freedom and Constitutional government.
They do not want a Constitutionally limited Republic, because to truly enact their agenda they can't have our Constitution or its supporters "getting in the way"
They were conserving the tradition of freedom and independence from Britain that our colonies enjoyed. It wasn't until King George tried to replace our elected officials with his puppets, tax us to death without our input/council and generally treat us like the subjects we declined to be that we went to war. What finally set it off was his attempt to confiscate the guns, however there was a long list of "wrongs and usurpations" that lead to the actual war. That was the point the colonists realized "enough was enough" and decided to take up arms in the name of establishing a better form of government, a self-governing Constitutionally limited Republic. One that wasn't full of subjects at the whim of a ruler, but Citizens in charge of their own destiny and nation.
Our forefathers established the Constitution to constrain our new government, to ensure it never became tyrannical like the British monarchy. In addition to those constraints, they created the BOR to provide *extra* protections for specific rights considered unalienable, but in no way are our rights constrained or limited to those enumerated rights. Any right not specifically assigned to the government was automatically by default given to the people as individual citizens or the State governments to decide. In no case can the government grant itself powers out of thin air, however.
That is what we're conserving. That is what we're defending.
Many on (or near) the right suspect and dread a new civil war.
All we've seen is casual mocking from the more left-leaning members.
Is it because they don't think there will be a war, or do they think they will win it?
How could American citizens be conservative to the non existent constitution?
Because having a conservative view, prior to the constitution, had nothing to do with a piece of paper, I really dont understand how you cant grasp that.
More revisionist ideology. They werent left leaning politics, because there was no independent political system set up yet. LoL yet you sit here and insult my knowledge of history, and then make a comment how Conservatives couldnt be conservative because there was no constitution.
I recommend you actually do a lot more reading and listening. May I suggest PragerU and some others, and actually go to the library and pick up some old books on the history of the revolutionary war.
Name a time and a place, Nance.