I’m a conservative, and I’m not a member of the Republican party. I have voted Republican in the past because their policy preferences better aligned with mine, but now that the party is so closely tied to Donald Trump, I’m rethinking where my votes will go — most likely to write-in candidates because I will not vote for Democrats. But I don’t consider myself a conservative because I want to save everything in the past. I’m a conservative because I believe in conserving the things that are really real and permanent. Progressives believe human beings have created everything so what they’ve created they can change, and that includes marriage and a person’s gender identity. I believe there are things God created that are not human inventions and therefore can only be tampered with with disastrous consequences — consequences that I believe we see playing out before us every day here in America.
Hi Linda, thanks for engaging. Let me clarify that I do not mean that conservatives want to preserve the past simply *because* it is the past. At the same time, the permanent things are seen through the past, and the desire to conserve the past comes from recognizing the permanent things in the past. I added a note to make this more straightforward.
Conservatism necessitates conserving what has already been. In the American context, this includes attempting to preserve the culture handed down to us by the Great Tradition.
I’m a conservative, and I’m not a member of the Republican party. I have voted Republican in the past because their policy preferences better aligned with mine, but now that the party is so closely tied to Donald Trump, I’m rethinking where my votes will go — most likely to write-in candidates because I will not vote for Democrats. But I don’t consider myself a conservative because I want to save everything in the past. I’m a conservative because I believe in conserving the things that are really real and permanent. Progressives believe human beings have created everything so what they’ve created they can change, and that includes marriage and a person’s gender identity. I believe there are things God created that are not human inventions and therefore can only be tampered with with disastrous consequences — consequences that I believe we see playing out before us every day here in America.
Hi Linda, thanks for engaging. Let me clarify that I do not mean that conservatives want to preserve the past simply *because* it is the past. At the same time, the permanent things are seen through the past, and the desire to conserve the past comes from recognizing the permanent things in the past. I added a note to make this more straightforward.
Conservatism necessitates conserving what has already been. In the American context, this includes attempting to preserve the culture handed down to us by the Great Tradition.