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  • Originally posted by JimL View Post
    Excuses over doing something!
    Yeah, that's another thing - liberals push "doing something" even if it's the idiotic wrong thing, then make excuses to blame everybody else.
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
      Yes, I'm sure you believe that's exactly what I meant.
      No but it was what you seemed to be saying so I asked.
      "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

      "Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman

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      • Originally posted by simplicio View Post
        Not all social engineering is bad. The greatest social engineering program the US has attempted is the civil rights initiatives, including the federal anti lynching bill.

        Conservatives generally opposed those. They violated the conservative tenets of local control (or subsidiarity and states rights). We can look back and recognize those things as consistent with modern views of conservatism, but we often forget that contemporary conservatives looked at those and recoiled.

        Few conservatives want those social engineering initiatives rolled back.
        Those aren't examples of social engineering.
        "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

        "Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman

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        • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
          Yeah, that's another thing - liberals push "doing something" even if it's the idiotic wrong thing, then make excuses to blame everybody else.
          Sure, CP.

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          • Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
            Those aren't examples of social engineering.
            Why? I think it accurate to say that those examples have become accepted, and we cannot imagine going back.

            The traditional values (referred to previously) mandated a separation of races to some extent. Few really knew whether full rights of citizenship could work out. Which is why civil rights ebbed and flowed throughout our history.

            Equality was long resisted; in health care, education, military, equality and equal access was deemed unworkable because the equality of nature was not recognized. Even as late as the fifties, hospitals in many cities had duplicate facilities and staff. The history of education is well known. The military resisted full integration, many thought it unworkable because there was no tradition of using black men as a fighting force was untried, the only examples were exceptions. (Even though each war, almost, had examples of black fighting units which acquitted themselves excellently. They were still the exception)

            Each step in the road to civil rights was an example of social engineering, and resisted because it was social engineering.

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            • Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
              Those aren't examples of social engineering.
              Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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              • Originally posted by simplicio View Post
                Today we can contrast Romney and Trump. One is a conservative icon, the other a Rino.
                Romney's a RINO, Trump is actually trying to roll back some of the progressive changes.
                Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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                • Originally posted by NorrinRadd View Post
                  Social conservatism.

                  Fiscal conservatism.

                  Political conservatism.

                  Judicial conservatism.

                  Theological conservatism.

                  Foreign policy conservatism.

                  ALL DIFFERENT.


                  How are we supposed to communicate meaningfully yet concisely?
                  Chesterton summarised conservatism a hundred years ago, it's an attitude that conserves whatever changes the progressives made a generation ago. It doesn't actually conserve anything in the long run, not even bathrooms.
                  Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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                  • Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
                    From reporting at Little Rock in 1957. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1957/09...2422151941066/

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                    • Originally posted by simplicio View Post
                      From reporting at Little Rock in 1957. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1957/09...2422151941066/
                      Good, you recognise the picture. What do you learn from it, about force, power, government, and what the military will do during a theoretical dung hits fan scenario?
                      Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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                      • Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
                        Good, you recognise the picture. What do you learn from it, about force, power, government, and what the military will do during a theoretical dung hits fan scenario?
                        Our military is drawn from society.

                        A look at the events in Little Rock is illustrative that the system works. The Arkansas National Giard did follow orders to barr the black students from entering, a fact which guardsmen have thought about, especially those in Arkansas. But it is important to note that even when the situation was volatile, they did keep their cool and did not act as a mob.

                        The picture is of 101 division troops escorting protesters away from the school, with fixed bayonets. But they also recognized they were under the microscope, and did not cause a fiasco. (a big difference from Kent State). Training today better prepares National Guard troops for crowd control and riot duties, not sure if regular army or reserve troops are trained. The fixed bayonets were used as a picket, not offensively.

                        I take it you have not served in the military from your low view of American men and women under arms.

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                        • Originally posted by JimL View Post
                          Sure, CP.
                          Imitation is, indeed, the sincerest form of flattery.
                          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                          • Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
                            Good, you recognise the picture. What do you learn from it, about force, power, government, and what the military will do during a theoretical dung hits fan scenario?
                            Maybe I should ask what conclusions you draw from the events at Little Rock about force, power, government, and what the military might do when the kimchi hits the fan.

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                            • Originally posted by JimL View Post
                              And exactly how do the liberals exacerbate homelessness?
                              Creating regulations that make building new buildings expensive, which drives up the price, which prices people out of the housing market.
                              "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
                              GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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                              • Originally posted by simplicio View Post
                                what the military might do when the kimchi hits the fan.
                                They'll largely side with the government.
                                Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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