Quote (EndlessSky @ Aug 17 2018 05:49pm)
if you label goom a conservative, that explains why you're losing the moderates.
What strange bedfellows common sense and rationality make. I'm just one of those conservatives that wants fully nationalized social healthcare, more public works projects, a right to privacy and abortions, free speech, civil liberties and opposes militarism. And I only shop union. And am overly preoccupied with climate change adaptation and mitigation.
But like the ACLU of the 60s and 70s and unlike the ACLU of the 10s and 20s, I defend the civil liberties of nazis. Or at least I would, if I could find any real nazis. Im not convinced they actually exist, as a label they've basically become bugbears and boogeymen. The last few free speech rallies I've seen "anti-Nazi" mobs surround were first an indian guy with black lives matter signs denouncing racism, and kessler and his dozen black / jewish / hispanic friends talking how very not nazis they are.