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Showing Original Post only (View all)Chuck Todd - Meet the Press, Sunday, Just formulated something profound [View all]
There no longer seems to be a right-wing conservative ideology.
There is only a left-wing progressive ideology, and an anti-left-wing progressive ideology.
In other words, The right no longer stands for anything, they simply stand against something.
And that's why Trump won, and that's why he still has support. Not because he represent an ideology, but simply because he stands against one.
Something to ponder.
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Xipe Totec
May 2017
OP
That's our view of them; yes. Not that it's wrong, but they don't see themselves that way. nt
Xipe Totec
May 2017
#6
Their sheep are too dimwitted to see the strong correlation between contraception/abortion
MrPurple
May 2017
#60
Capitalism was never "founded"; it evolved from feudalism organically - nt
KingCharlemagne
May 2017
#25
Um, no. They want government only when it serves their capitalist purposes.
Fantastic Anarchist
May 2017
#39
Power is their only ideology & selling out the country is not too low for them to get it. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2017
#14
I once asked a conservative acquaintance just what it was that conservatives wanted to conserve...
lastlib
May 2017
#16
I heard that but don't know what the hell he meant. And of course, the Righties have always been
Akamai
May 2017
#29
He didn't "formulate" anything, just restated stuff that liberals have been saying...
JHB
May 2017
#36
I somewhat agree. I think there's a right-wing faction and an anti-left-wing faction.
Fantastic Anarchist
May 2017
#38
To me, the present day Republicans are those who always resented their parents
Jim Beard
May 2017
#40
We have come to this: That we call the media's noting the obvious, "profound."
WinkyDink
May 2017
#54
Hell, it's 7 years since it became a central tenet of Balloon Juice, a leading liberal blog
muriel_volestrangler
May 2017
#67