American tradition is wrong, therefore its laws must be changed.
If I were to say something like this, then I would consider myself to be Progressive. But I don't and so I have very specific questions about the nature of such change. I am skeptical. I would have the law shrink and I would have government power restrained and give it less reason to ask me questions. Nulan, in his own twisted way expresses such a conservative sentiment in the following manner:
I'll keep my guns focused on the dangerous demographic that's so concerned about what I have, get, boink, ingest, or think - thank you very much.
It is difficult for me to understand how such a charge could be pointed at the Conservative movement. We are not the authors of political correctness. It is political correctness that is the consciousness-invasive restriction of speech and thought whose agenda is to politicize ever more expansive areas of life in America.
Smoking has been politicized. By the Left.
Gender has been politicized. By the Left.
Food has been politicized. By the Left.
Conservatives like me would rather that you leave politics out of it - that a broad area of life should have no political connotations whatsoever. Conservatives are more interested in defending their way of lives from a political and legal encroachment of activists who seek to use government power to create a new world. It is very simple and clear that Conservatives seek to restrain government power and to keep private matters the province of private enterprise. Laissez Faire, people. Just let it be.
The hazard of the advance of culture wars is to infantilize everyone, I prefer the boldness of the 60s radicals, in which at least they had the courage to go somewhere and create the little world they wished to see. Now radicals insist that the state must impose that world upon all of us. Instead of making their own commune, they want America itself to be their commune.
The point of this message is that there is a political inversion taking place. Americans are free to do much more most people on the planet. But still there are those who take it upon themselves to agitate against traditions as if these traditions were impositions. There is a deeper and dysfunctional error in the assumptions against traditions, but Conservatives like me are content to leave those errors be, so long as they do not become law and policy. And so we resist these attacks on the accumulated wisdom of history and human learning.
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