Should conservatism be illegal?

[Arglorand]

Well, you're in Russia.

Banning conservatives would have the huge plus of sending Putin and United Russia flying out the window.

Exactly. Banning it in Russia I support, as for america,meh.

shit hide under the table the FSB's onto ya now

[Normandium]

The children don't get a choice, though.

Why would they?

Well, it's sort of their belief that's being constructed from their environment. And private schools tend to be inferior when teaching the sciences (At least every private school I've seen), making it less likely for them to fully understand modern science.

Hell, I go to a public school that teaches evolutionary theory, and I still have to explain it to people.

[Bojikami]

Exactly. Banning it in Russia I support, as for america,meh.

shit hide under the table the FSB's onto ya now

I have committed hooliganism.

[Arglorand]

shit hide under the table the FSB's onto ya now

I have committed hooliganism.

... Wait, is that a crime out there?

[Bojikami]

I have committed hooliganism.

... Wait, is that a crime out there?

Yes.

[Ponderosa]

Being a capitalist, I will argue that not all conservatism is bad. Your pleas for silencing the opposition are quite frankly disgusting and pathetic.

[Regnum Dominae]

Anyway, this is an incredibly stupid idea. Much stupider than conservatism itself.

[Arglorand]

... Wait, is that a crime out there?

Yes.

Woooooow.

What does the legal code define as an act of hooliganism?

[Hurdegaryp]

Anyway, this is an incredibly stupid idea. Much stupider than conservatism itself.

And that is saying something!

[Condunum]

Anyway, this is an incredibly stupid idea. Much stupider than conservatism itself.

And that is saying something!

Not really. Conservatism is actually pretty smart. What you probably are thinking of, and what many posters on here bash and misinterpret is traditionalism and reactionary policy. They do not go hand in hand with conservatism, although traditionalism does blend slightly.

[Ifreann]

And that is saying something!

Not really. Conservatism is actually pretty smart. What you probably are thinking of, and what many posters on here bash and misinterpret is traditionalism and reactionary policy. They do not go hand in hand with conservatism, although traditionalism does blend slightly.

I'm sure all the politicians we're thinking of aren't true conservatives.

[Condunum]

Not really. Conservatism is actually pretty smart. What you probably are thinking of, and what many posters on here bash and misinterpret is traditionalism and reactionary policy. They do not go hand in hand with conservatism, although traditionalism does blend slightly.

I'm sure all the politicians we're thinking of aren't true conservatives.

Indeed, but the mislabeling is A Bad Thing, and makes people like Caninope sad. Sad Caninope is worse than crying Baby Jesus.

[Oceania-Eurasia-Eastasia]

Being a capitalist, I will argue that not all conservatism is bad. Your pleas for silencing the opposition are quite frankly disgusting and pathetic.

Not to mention hilarious, situated as they are in an OP that blames "conservative America" for bringing the world's economies down (presumably down from where the "more advanced, socially progressive" nations had got to by themselves in spite of "American conservatism") and then tries to justify itself with some mythological ban on national socialism in Germany (you know, where Hitler used to ragerant about the ebils of capitalism and blame the international banking system for bringing his advanced, socially progressive nation down...)

We do have to give the OP credit for trying to make us laugh.

Edit for erudition:

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." - Adolf Hitler, May 1, 1927

[Hurdegaryp]

And that is saying something!

Not really. Conservatism is actually pretty smart. What you probably are thinking of, and what many posters on here bash and misinterpret is traditionalism and reactionary policy. They do not go hand in hand with conservatism, although traditionalism does blend slightly.

If conservatives are so smart, why did they allow their parties to become polluted with fundamentalists and belligerent reactionaries?

[Condunum]

Not really. Conservatism is actually pretty smart. What you probably are thinking of, and what many posters on here bash and misinterpret is traditionalism and reactionary policy. They do not go hand in hand with conservatism, although traditionalism does blend slightly.

If conservatives are so smart, why did they allow their parties to become polluted with fundamentalists and belligerent reactionaries?

Because it isn't their party? It hasn't been for decades.

[Bojikami]

Yes.

Woooooow.

What does the legal code define as an act of hooliganism?

Don't really know, as I am not that into law, but I've seen people get arrested on those charges for speaking out against Putin.

[Arglorand]

Woooooow.

What does the legal code define as an act of hooliganism?

Don't really know, as I am not that into law, but I've seen people get arrested on those charges for speaking out against Putin.

Welp.

This is why I make sure to speak in hushed voices and with grammar mistakes so no one can record me and translate what I'm saying into Russian when I visit my relatives in St. Petersburg.

[Normandium]

Not really. Conservatism is actually pretty smart. What you probably are thinking of, and what many posters on here bash and misinterpret is traditionalism and reactionary policy. They do not go hand in hand with conservatism, although traditionalism does blend slightly.

If conservatives are so smart, why did they allow their parties to become polluted with fundamentalists and belligerent reactionaries?

Any group can be brought down with numbers.

That's why

42

has to be censored whenever spoken.

[Caninope]

Not really. Conservatism is actually pretty smart. What you probably are thinking of, and what many posters on here bash and misinterpret is traditionalism and reactionary policy. They do not go hand in hand with conservatism, although traditionalism does blend slightly.

If conservatives are so smart, why did they allow their parties to become polluted with fundamentalists and belligerent reactionaries?

Well, there's a long story to that, but it essentially boils down to votes. It was an easy alliance of convenience. It just so happens that when you start losing people like Ronald Reagan (who was able to control the fundamentalist portions of the GOP through sheer charisma) and replacing them with people like Newt Gingrich (who maintained some control over fundamentalists and reactionaries through tact, if not charisma) and then replacing those subpar leaders with even more subpar leaders like Eric Cantor who are fully willing to go along (or even worse, have drunk the Kool-Aid), that's when the problem arises.

It's been a self-perpetuating cycle. As fundamentalists and reactionaries gain in power and attention, they gain in number. When they gain in number, they gain in power and attention. These reactionaries have been spurred by a societal shift to the right that began after Nixon's "Silent Majority" rejected the counter-cultures of the 1960s, as well as demographic growth that has largely been positive for them until 2010 (population growth in the South, movement to a post-Industrial economy and with that a movement away from unions, etc.).

It's not a matter of being "stupid" or "smart". This "takeover" of the GOP by reactionaries has been decades in the making, and largely spontaneous. It can happen to any party or movement.

[Zweite Alaje]

Not really. Conservatism is actually pretty smart. What you probably are thinking of, and what many posters on here bash and misinterpret is traditionalism and reactionary policy. They do not go hand in hand with conservatism, although traditionalism does blend slightly.

If conservatives are so smart, why did they allow their parties to become polluted with fundamentalists and belligerent reactionaries?

Because they're reactionaries?

Actual conservatives will consider new ideas and adopt them if they are beneficial, reactionaries won't.

[Caninope]

I'm sure all the politicians we're thinking of aren't true conservatives.

Indeed, but the mislabeling is A Bad Thing, and makes people like Caninope sad. Sad Caninope is worse than crying Baby Jesus.

Thank you.

Sometimes, it can be hard to draw the line between what's "reactionary" and what's just "conservative" though.

[Mike the Progressive]

No, that's fucking stupid. Conservatism is opposing radical change, that's good for a stable and secure society. Don't mistake conservatism with reactionism.

[Czechanada]

Yes, we should censor Atlas Shrugged and Bioshock.

[Condunum]

Indeed, but the mislabeling is A Bad Thing, and makes people like Caninope sad. Sad Caninope is worse than crying Baby Jesus.

Thank you.

Sometimes, it can be hard to draw the line between what's "reactionary" and what's just "conservative" though.

Generally, a litmus test can be employed here, I think,

[LiamHerndon]

Although conservatism has really f***ed up a lot of the United States, it is part of free speech.