What has happened to Wesleyan?

chrisrb
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:09:59 +0000

"But there haven’t been conservative democrats in this country for decades - scoop jackson was maybe the last one.

“Also, I fail to see why conservatives must always by ‘principled’ or ‘honorable’ while leftists, incl. most of the Democratic party, get to be unprincipled scaliwags or indeed scumbags, and everyone here snickers or smiles knowingly about it.”



The Democratic Party now is as conservative as was the Republican Party 30 years ago. Both major parties today are corporate-owned, and liberals, in general, don’t own large mega-corporations.

As to which side has abandoned principle, and why the conservative movement as a whole today needs to relearn how to be honorable, all one has to do is click and count:

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