By definition, Conservatives favor the "make no law" approach to governing.
That the religious right is a part of the Republican Coalition does nothing to make central governmental control of a person's gentalia any less Liberal than does the assertion that Central Governmental control of anything is any less Liberal.
If you seek the limit of personal freedom in favor of the control of peoples' lives by a central authority, you are espousing liberalism.
Ultimately your argument is about communalism. You didn't say an single positive think about individualism while promoting communal sharing, right after stating we need balance. A contradiction to say the least.On the actual topic of individualism, it is quite true that too much individualism is detrimental, even to the individual. Just like too much communialism is. The generalizations of liberal a conservative in this thread are of no consequences, but the idea of balance is crucial. We are too much in love with individualism in this country, to the point where we harm ourselves and our neighbors in a vain quest to be superior. We think that we can have everything. Of course we can't. There isn't everything to go around, and we all try to have it all, then we'll spend our lives just trying to take from each other. Instead, we need to be content to share, and to strive to improve ourselves. If we work together, we all prosper. But we need to each prosper in our individual ways, to cultivate our unique aspects and talents that make us stand out.
The libertarian/conservative in-fighting is interesting.
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that one wants to ascribe the attribute of individualism to a group? :lol:
Of course, what could broadly be termed as a left-libertarian/right-populist political spectrum would have its share of contradictions as well, such as the fact that the left-libertarians would be conservative insofar as they looked to the past - to the old classical liberal and anarchist movements - for guidance. But contradictions in a society are inescapable, and simply resolve themselves into further contradictions.
Good for himhes going to grow up a liberal conservative slayer...lolol...
Since Turner implied that real Americans proved class privileges were unnecessary to build a nation, the fact that he was rejected by the 60s Left academics once again reveals that, despite their anti-Establishment public image, these people are really unAmerican and anti-American upper-class snobs.Frederick Jackson Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here's some reading on the probable origins of this thinking.
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