So to what time period do conservatives pine for?
Amongst conservatives it would be implicitly understood that we prefer the time before the 1960's.
Even today, many conservatives seem to be promoting inhumanity. Some even suggest such vile bigotry as banning gay marriage - hard to believe that anyone would suggest something so evil in public, but I have heard it directly out of the mouth of some conservatives.
Sorry but I don't see anything inherently evil or inhumane in wanting to keep marriage between a man and a woman but then i'm also not really opposed to the idea either. This is one of those issues that has really gained traction amongst the religious right yet their opposition to it seems to be strictly biblical based. I just don't see anything odious abut two men or two women being married. Gays and lesbians should have every right to be married and thus, just as miserable, as us breeders.
Ok...that's a bit out in left field. Not sure what it means. Are you talking about romantic love? Brotherly love...love for your fellow man?
I don't know why you keep trying to drag me into these semantic arguments. Do you
really not know what the word love means?
The conservative-thinking mind, with its narcissistic tendencies, is not likely to have any love for their fellow man outside of their clique. If they did, they wouldn't have labels for everybody considered "the other". The conservative-thinking mind is not capable of working on the simple ethical ideal of reciprocity.
Sorry pal but that works just as easily one direction as the other, hence the two words "liberal" and "conservative". Reciprocity is ethical? So if someone attacks you. the ethical thing to do is attack them back?
I don't agree that what they are "pining" for necessarily has anything to do with the past, present or future.
Yes it does. It's apparent that the English language is one of the first barriers to debating this with you so i'll turn to dictionary.com to help you again; "conservative" means, "disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change", so yes it is clearly someone who would like to return society to what they consider the good old days.
Sure, they generally don't like "change" at all, but what the conservative-thinking mind simply wants is the world to conform to it. If society happened to better conform in the past, then they will long for the past. If they see a future where it better conforms, then it will long for the future. If they see the future as being less conforming than the status quo, they will want to keep the status quo.
This is a an excellent example of the type of nonsense I am used to from liberals. Conservatives
aren't about conforming because there are many things that society wants us to conform to
today that we reject like human rights tribunals, an increasingly out of touch judicial system, and political correctness.
This is because the conservative-thinking mind has a hard time seeing others as "individuals", they see them as extensions of themselves. That is why they fear those who are not like them. This is what drives a conservative-thinking person to think that same-sex marriage is a "threat" to "traditional" marriage.
I am very aware that others are different from me (in your case,
very different
) so I don't know how you figure that conservatives suffer from some sort of malignant narcissism. I guess i'm a bit different from other conservatives because I don't have a problem with same-sex marriage.
First of all, nothing I have been saying refers to any political parties (with the exception of the NDP comment, which was really nothing more than a little interjected humour). And secondly, no...you are not right. I have no loyalties to any political party, which is why I have no "disdain" for anybody not believing in my party affiliation.
Unfortunately i'm not surprised you couldn't simply define your political beliefs, liberals have a hard time thinking in terms of black and white and
you clearly have a hard time understanding the English language.