re: #292 Obdicut

“Conservative” is a pretty meaningless term. A lot of decent people self-apply it. So saying conservatives are evil people is inherently problematic.

The problem with that term for “decent” conservatives is that, essentially, it’s been co-opted by lunatics, so by sticking with it, you’re at some level lending credibility to those same lunatics.

I can see how this would be hard to accept, but at some point you have to be clear that you have nothing in common with people that want to take us back to the middle ages.

For all his other many faults I think this is why Jeb Bush made his “I used to be a conservative” comment.