The New Sea Territory wrote:Yumyumsuppertime wrote:
And Goldwater, the father of modern conservatism, said that someone needed to kick Jerry Falwell's ass. The Religious Right and Tea Party are more reactionary than conservative.
Now you're just limiting conservatism to pure economics. Modern conservatism is interventionist and socially conservative, regardless of what Goldwater was.
I think that you're defining it too narrowly, and not allowing for the different schools of thought within modern conservatism.