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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here the reason I ask is that the right seems to be fixated on admissions to schools like HYP and affirmative action. Why do they even want to be there? Why not just have right wing school with stellar academics, envy of everyone, plus no affirmative action? My theory is that they are simply incapable of duplicating the same caliber of school. They are loud, but not very patient or hard working. [/quote]

As it's already been pointed out, academics with no real-life experience tend to gravitate to political liberals.  It has more to do with the type of people who gravitate to the life of the university -  and nothing to do with the silly idea that political conservatives have no financial means of supporting a university.  [/quote]

Do you have experience at elite universities? You couldn't be more wrong.

Also, PP wasn't saying conservatives don't have the financial means to support a university; the issue is that right-wing politics (contemporarily conceived -- not right wing in the traditional sense, such as fiscal conservatism) are essentially incompatible with the culture of intellectual inquiry elite universities try to cultivate. [/quote]
[b]+1  Many Trumpsters say they want to go back to the way American used to be. Conservatives do not like change (progress) of any sort. They don't like the fact that automation has killed jobs (never mind that it has created more high paying jobs); they don't like that women want more equality, or (gasp) gays. They don't like that science has taken over religiosity (think Isaac Newton, but on a smaller scale); they want our teens to stay ignorant about their bodies and sex so don't want sex ed taught in schools.

Not all conservatives are like this. There are sane ones, but the current R party seems to have been overtaken by these extreme conservatives they hate any kind of progress or enlightened thinking.[/quote][/b]

This is just so astonishingly wrong!  Conservatives believe primarily in the original constitutional/separation of powers that gives more power to the states and less to the federal government.  Once you understand that, everything falls into place.  Abortion, school education, gay marriage = all should be handled by the states and not the bloated federal government.  The fifty states are supposed to be incubators working on issues to the best they can and to please their own state voters.  The federal government is not supposed to be this big bloated inefficient bureaucracy.  The federal government is supposed to be in control of only what the states cannot handle: postage, U.S. postal service, minimal federal taxation to keep a small federal government going, and raising an army.  Many agencies should not even exist (many were created by Carter) because the states should be handling these issues on their own.  Conservatives DO like change, which is why some of the changes Trump is making (cutting taxes, cutting agency spending, streamlining agencies) are in line with conservative thought.  We must end the debt or at least become responsible about it.  I have never heard a conservative say they don't like the fact that automation has killed jobs - that's nonsense.  What they don't like is that the current burden of taxation has sent many American companies overseas.  Bringing them back has nothing to do with automation and it's necessary to create jobs in the USA.  Of course they want to treat women equally. I am one (although not a Trumper) I've had a brilliant career - no conservative has ever said they don't want women treated equally.  And of course we don't want teens "to stay ignorant about their bodies and sex so don't want sex ed taught in schools". Where is that from?    What we don't want is the federal government ordering public schools in the states as to what they should do.  State and County public schools make those decisions in line with what the voters want.  And besides, we all had sex ed in school even if we are "old" by DCUM standards and had it back in the 70s, so I don't know what you are talking about.  It's unthinking statements like PP that just shows how wrong civics education has become in this country and how ignorant the left is about what conservatism is all about.[/quote]
[b]So in your perfect world slavery would still be a state by state decision.[[/b]/quote]

Of course not. Don't be absurd.  I'm clearly talking about today. And Lincoln was a Republican.  it was the southern democrats who wanted to keep their slaves.[/quote]

Talking about today?
Aren’t you an originalist?[/quote]

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