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There are a number of posters here who constantly complain about how the US has become too Marxist, etc. etc. Given that the US's leftward path has been a long and gradual one which (arguably) began with the election of FDR in 1932, or maybe even Teddy Roosevelt in 1900, and which has continued in that direction in fits and starts ever since then, the conservative is eventually going to find themselves living in a place which is utterly anathema to their sense of everything that is good and right.
When the US has taken an occasional rightward deviation from this path, the American liberal has plenty of other countries they can claim they can go to if things got really bad: Canada, of course, being the foremost, but pretty much anywhere in Western Europe, and even New Zealand and Australia are typically considered just fine by American liberal standards.
But if the US got too liberal for American conservatives, where shall they go? What is the conservative's equivalent of Canada? Or New Zealand? Or the UK? Or Germany?
It just so happens that the following website has a nifty ranking of the most conservative nations in the world.
When discussing politics or religion, the term “conservative” comes up often, but what does it mean? Someone who is conservative is someone that has traditional values and beliefs. A person that is conservative is wary of innovation.
A person who is conservative, for example, may be in favor of marriage when it’s between a man and a woman. A conservative person may not believe in divorce, abortion, or other controversial issues. A person who is conservative is typically very resistant to change.
Sounds about right? I think that's a good description of what conservatives value.
Given those criteria, this website has devised the following list of countries which best satisfy those benchmarks. Here is the list:
Yemen
Mali
Iran
Pakistan
Chad
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon
Swaziland
Ethiopia
For those conservatives unwilling or too lazy to learn a new language, I believe English is widely spoken in Swaziland. And Pakistan, too. Not sure about the others.
So, we now have a list of countries conservatives can flee to if they feel the US is becoming too liberal.
What I find odd about the list is that most of the countries listed are hot spots for terrorism and ruled by Muslims that practice sharia law like the 2 go hand in hand.
Conservatives/Republicans primarily are opposed to terrorism and sharia law that makes women second class citizens while Progressives/Democrats at least through the Obama years embrace Islam for its beauty, peace and diversity.
I'm sure that Conservatives are content to live in America and will work and fight hard to protect it from becoming like the countries that are on the list.
What is going on in the Democrat party today cannot be compared to any other time in the history of America.
I think modern Conservatives do like the Russian model more because, frankly, when they see country with the right color of skin (they look like me!) and some big weapons....and an authoritarian leader, they feel a certain camaraderie.
But Russia would be further down that list.
The reason the USA was founded was to do away with Conservatism. Liberalism is the entire world view of the Founders and most of the philosophers that they looked to to craft our Constitution. Most of the Founders were classic liberals....of course, we did have the problem of those from the South who slaveowners and oversaw a slave economy. Compromises were made...maybe they should not have been??
The USA was one of the latest civilized countries to fully ban slavery....and we were definitely the only one than they took 150+ years to put the change into full law and practice.
What I find odd about the list is that most of the countries listed are hot spots for terrorism and ruled by Muslims that practice sharia law like the 2 go hand in hand.
What is going on in the Democrat party today cannot be compared to any other time in the history of America.
So you are saying 90% tax rates under IKE, programs put forth by Ted Roosevelt and FDR and JFK and LBJ (and passed) are somehow exceeded by the current actions and legislation by the Democratic Party?
That's hard to imagine. Those were major milestones in the history of our country. Our Federal Government has been largely "conservative" since Reagan....and before that there was quite a long reign by Nixon.
I haven't seem any massive changes which hold a candle to earlier history.
That's why voting is so important: make your own neck of the woods the hell you prefer.
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