... which is why I suggested reading the entirety of the linked article which summarizes "conservatism" pretty comprehensively.
The United States, as in so many things, is an outlier. In the other western democracies "liberals" are generally considered centrists. Conservatives are right-of-centre & there is generally another left-of-centre party "social democrats" (as well as, often, a variety of other parties). I think it's reached the point in the US where the rigid two party system has become a negative reality. It's possible Trump, who advocates things no "libertarian conservative" could support, could lead to the emergence of a viable third, or even a fourth party. But it's hard to see how that would play out in the US political system.
Nonsense.
It's not people "wailing" that are the issue, it's climate scientists evaluating the evidence & warning of the possible consequences of inaction..
The world has lots of "money to spare". For instance, it's able to spend 1.7 trillion dollars every year on weapons.
"Right or wrong" ... now that's a powerful intellectual argument.
Not sure why this is so hard to follow. I asked what PocketZeven meant by the word "conservative". He said Republican. They are two different things. Some Republicans subscribe to some conservative ideas. They lean that way but they also demonstrably ignore some conservative principles. Republican is a political party, conservatism is an ideology. Ice cream has cream in it and so does my coffee. That doesn't mean my coffee is ice cream because it also has some cream in it, just like it doesn't mean Republican = conservative simply because they ascribe to whichever conservative principles are convenient and appeal to their base.
No they aren't just cream and non cream. You can buy 5% cream, half and half cream, 18% cream, whipping cream and probably other versions of cream I never noticed. I favour half and half in Canada but I've shopped in the U.S. More appropriately, cream without fat in it is known as fat free cream. See where I'm going? The essence of cream is fat but you can still call something cream even if it has no fat in it.
Bollacks for two reasons. One, as I have established earlier, we are a republic, and for a very good reason. Our founders have rejected democracy for the very ideals that they represent (Mob Rule). Going back to the Kavanaugh confirmation, what do you think that those 300 protesters that were arrested yesterday were doing IF you really think about it? They had a mob mentality and that they were using the power of numbers to shout down a minority. That is why we have representatives to vote for us.
So the investigation only has meaning if it has the outcome you want?
Again, Bollacks. The concession to the slaveowners was that blacks were to be counted as 3/5ths of a person in the census. Compared to the plague that is illegal immigration today, that small concession at least provided a very good estimate on how many slaves there were in the US at any one time.
You are seriously going to play the privilege card? Seriously? Do you actually know HOW slavery started in America? It started with a black man saying that "I bought him" in court. Slavery is very much an African tradition, where there are more slaves compared to the rest of the world.
By 'meaningless' I meant that the investigation probably would not have affected the Republican Senators' opinion on Kavanaugh, even if it showed overwhelming evidence that he was indeed guilty of sexual misconduct.
But it did, though. One senator refused to vote for him. That is why the result was only 50-48 instead of 51-49 like it was during the cloture vote.
With a 35 year old allegation, no corroborating witnesses and no forensics I would assume they didn't expect to find a thing but did the best they could with what they had.
What would qualify as overwhelming evidence?
Yes. 22 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, ranging from lewd comments to groping to even rape, over a period of over 40 years.
No, because there's been no official ruling declaring that Trump or Kavanaugh committed rape. However, studies show that only two out of 100 women who claim they are raped are making false accusations. You seem to come off as if Kavanaugh and Trump's accusers of sexual misbehavior are all liars and doing it for attention.
