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What do you think of when you hear this phrase?
 
For me it brings up visions of close minded church goers who block this nation from advancing in science and knowledge.  People who are against things that don't effect them like gay marriage or abortions.  People who base their morality on a ghost who doesn't exist.
 
It also brings up people who are willing to use violence when neccessary, who understand and appreciate the military of this nation.  They will fight for the second amendment.  They understand that hard work is the way to success.


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  • uniquely-ironic said on Apr 03, 2007....
    While I'm sure there are Bible thumping conservatives out there, I don't think they are the majority.  Like most extremes they are a small vocal group.
     
    When I think of "The Conservative Right" I think of people who are middle age to elderly, well educated and probably living well above the poverty line.
  • bloc said on Apr 03, 2007....
    This is a good question because the Republican part has clearly changed in the past decade. Conservatism used to be about limited government and limited change. The new religious right and the limited government conservatives have very different points of view on policy.

    When I hear this phrase the first thing I do is ask which of these two conservatisms is the person talking about.
  • CamDaMan20 said on Apr 03, 2007....
    I think of my neighbor who wishes things had "stayed the same" as when he grew up in the 40's, 50's and 60'....he says it was the best time in America.

    I also think of those conservative business owners and operators that I work around, who live far above the poverty level and know not what the working class must do to survive.

    Each go to different churches, but insist the "Gays" are trying to take our Nation from the "Good People".  Each oppose abortions as adamantly as they would lock every "pot head" up for life, yet each enjoy the profit "those kinda" people bring to their lives and businesses.

    Each are totally against "stem cell research" indicating those that favor same are "playing God" and will be damned to eternal hell for killing babies before given a chance to live. They see not the wonders stem cell research may bring, nor the millions of lives that maybe saved or given a better quality of life.

    I see the conservatives as two very different kinds of people in politics, but pretty much the same in social views about others.  They like to say...those that have will always have and those that don't "should never have" because they would not know how to use money in any event.  Each see Lotteries that make poor people sometimes rich as a waste of good money on otherwise "worthless people".

    I hear conservative right,... I think of arrogant snobs who desire to live in a police state that requires respect for only God fearing people of their "own kind" who firmly believe that the lower social classes were bred to serve them and theirs.

    I see very selfish people indeed.
  • SeanRenaud said on Apr 03, 2007....
    The lottery is wasted money on worthless people.  In the end it doesn't matter though because the a man's money can't be greater than him and countless broke lottery winners stand as testament to that fact.
  • bloc said on Apr 03, 2007....
    the lottery is a way to raise taxes on the poor without it being obvious
  • SeanRenaud said on Apr 03, 2007....
    Never thought of it that way.  Still if they fall for it ::shrugs::
  • bloc said on Apr 03, 2007....
    "Still if they fall for it ::shrugs::"

    I agree

    p.s. - why do you think all the solidly red states, which are opposed to gambling, have a lottery?
  • SeanRenaud said on Apr 03, 2007....
    Honestly some things have never been worthy of my attention.  This is on that list.
    Though that is a good point.
  • silverwhisper said on Apr 03, 2007....
    i think in terms of my friends whose politics differ from my own and of late, primarily of social conservatives who do not hold w/ smaller government.

    ed
  • mobil said on Apr 04, 2007....
    It's too big a tent to bring anything to mind Sean. Lots of people fit under
    that tent. Fiscal conservatives, social conservatives and those further
    left and right of the center of the right.
     
    It's a big camp and as with the left hard to define or put a pin on the wall and
    say there they are.
     
    Even if you take what you call bible thumpers, the tent for them is huge all
    by itself Buddy. We try to put everything in a can and it just won't fit.
     
    Lots of folks out there with all kinds of ideas, you got to talk to them one at
    a time to get any sort of take on what they are thinking.
    Thanks Sean

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