As a right-wing, conservative capitalist, I'm always asking what my country can do for me. I need trillions in bailouts. I need lots of imperialist wars. I need the police-state government to crush Occupy Wall Street movements. I need my country to help keep workers' wages low. I need steady inflation and repressed wages to create fake profits at the expense of the increasing impoverishment of workers. I need quantitative easings, ZIRP and NIRP. I need my country to inflict austerity upon the masses to create the funds to pay for my bailouts.

When we right-wing capitalists say, "ask what you can do for your country" we don't mean that we should ask, rather we mean that the working class masses should ask themselves that question. Hopefully, those working-class chumps won't notice that when they are "doing for their country" they are actually doing for we rich, conservative, right-wing capitalists.

Good question

Answer; Yes

However,

generally, Conservatives have stronger personal and family values than liberals, and IMO, here's one phrase that separates the cons and libs;

"Don't ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"

curious how many people fit the "conservative but non-religious" description? Let me briefly clarify those terms to ensure accurate responses.

Conservative or, more appropriately right-leaning, is someone who would vote Republican or Tea Party. Someone who supports a mostly free market with minimal government intervention concerning morality, economics, education, etc. Someone who stresses the value of the individual and his individual progress over the progress of a larger collective. Someone who isn't afraid to voice politically incorrect ideas that betray popular notions of egalitarianism and cultural Marxism. Someone who feels America is the best country not due to some indoctrinated pride, but rather that the American system has been the most efficient at practicing illumination ideals.

Non-religious would be someone who is not religious. Mostly I'm thinking of individuals who find all religions to be false and akin to superstition. People who support a rigid wall between church and state. People who don't find religious doctrine to be the sole (or even a suitable) arbiter of morality.

Not surprisingly, I define myself as the above. From my readings, I've come across Heather MacDonald and George Will who might be classified as both as well. I've had trouble finding many within the conservative leaning group to be also non-religious.

Do non-religious people make up a larger portion of conservatives than one would believe from watching Fox News?

Many Christian denominations also call themselves "non-religious"

I am a Christian---old school Catholic, actually---but I can see where a person could be conservative on political matters and a liberal or non-believer on religious matters. I think Goldwater and Reagan could have been described as that.

yes, some are. just as for some VERY odd reason some religious people are liberals. Now THAT ONE makes zero sense.

Being personally against abortion is not the same as saying that you should legislate a scientifically intimate decision into the lives and bodies of women in a society. That is an often interpreted (but seldom justified) amalgam of the principals in the Bible justifying personal responsibility and those justifying social temperance. No one is getting into heaven for shoving a picket sign in the face of a woman making the hardest decision of her life.

For the purpose of rights and the legal protections afforded to living beings, life has to begin somewhere, as does the rights and responsibilities of those caring for the life.

Unless you intend to make it a legal responsibility of every woman to carry every pregnancy to term regardless of the details of conception or the danger to her own life, at the threat of punishment from the government, there is going to be some contention somewhere that isn't addressed in the Bible.


So far, the prevailing wisdom has been to leave the argument between the only two parties with a dog in the fight - the woman making the decision and her doctor, which is why Roe V. Wade is law.


People really should go and read the arguments from that case sometime.

1. Duchessa is jewish; so of course she is atheist.

2. Thanks for admitting you have at least 1 sock puppet profile.

ludlowloell,



I attended a Catholic elementary school where many teachers were dispatched from a religious order.

Hey, measuring girls' skirts was OK, but forcing left-handed students to use their right hand was a stupid "religious belief".

I don't vote "republican" or "tea party".

Neither label, guarantees a conservative candidate.


I vote conservative.

I attended parochial school taught by religious orders throughout grammar and high school,never ever heard of any left handed person being told to write or use their right hand.That sounds like a figment of someone's imagination to me.

My ex went to Catholic school and they forced him to write with his right hand .

Can you be a liberal and NOT be a douchebag?

Can you be a liberal and NOT be a douchebag?