When the letter of the law constrains the spirit of what they believe the law should be, they'll happily drop the facade of being constitutional fundamentalists.
Yep. Unlike Liberals, Conservatives actually know what kind of world they want to live in, and see the political process as a means to that end. Liberals just see the political process itself as the end, without any clear or consistent goals other than participating in the process for its own sake.
Give a Conservative a change-the-world button and they'd hit it, and make the world look like the prebellum South.
Give a Liberal a change-the-world button and they'd either refuse to hit it because it's not democratic, or they'd ask the Conservative what to do and then do half of that.
It's literally in the constitution. Aren't these the same people always screaming about how great the constitution is?
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When the letter of the law constrains the spirit of what they believe the law should be, they'll happily drop the facade of being constitutional fundamentalists.
Yep. Unlike Liberals, Conservatives actually know what kind of world they want to live in, and see the political process as a means to that end. Liberals just see the political process itself as the end, without any clear or consistent goals other than participating in the process for its own sake.
Give a Conservative a change-the-world button and they'd hit it, and make the world look like the prebellum South.
Give a Liberal a change-the-world button and they'd either refuse to hit it because it's not democratic, or they'd ask the Conservative what to do and then do half of that.
Yeah but, anchor babies.