The Social Conservatives Safe House

DieHappy said:

Be Careful Which Palin Book You're Buying

and the libs say we don't have any ideas.

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Browneyes84 said:

Yeah I wasn't going to read all 62 pages but I was just wondering if I could get some feedback here.

I find myself, as I get older, leaning more and more towards conservatism and away from liberalism. Then again, I was always an awful liberal to begin with because I tended to lean more conservatively in the social realm. Just to be safe, I read through what social conservatism typically identifies itself as and I can say that I agree with pretty much almost every thing.

Here's what can get me about conservatism or conservatives in general. All my life, people who have been conservative have always told me that it's "unAmerican" to identify myself as being part of my ethnic background AND American at the same time. I've always had people who identified themselves as "conservative" tell me that "culture is stupid" or "oh well you're American now" or give me a look of disdain about it. I can remember a former friend who was very loud about being a conservative tell me that wanting to visit other countries but the U.S. was "not patriotic."

Last time I checked, this country was founded my immigrants. This country's culture is a conglomeration of immigrants and their cultures. Why is me holding onto my ethnic background a bad thing?

I'm not the only one who seems to have run into these issues. I've talked to many other people who are immigrants or are first-generation-- Filipino, Guatemalan, Panaman (sp?), other Indians, Vietnamese, who all identify themselves as conservative and/or Republican and often get similar reactions. In a way, it's isolating because we want to identify ourselves politically without feeling like we have to compromise a piece of ourselves.

Does anyone get what I'm saying here?

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ChristianCenturion said:

Boulder's Naked Halloween Streak May Be Coming to an End

Umm... "liberal-to-the-point-of-loony"
Isn't that a bit redundant?

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