re: #6 HappyWarrior

Anyhow so much of this goes back to how conservatives lack empathy. As I mentioned about my brother, he got into it with a long time friend of both of ours. And our friend’s rseponse? Some crap about how what he talked about was crony capitalism and not real conservatism. Real conservatism? To me, that sounds more and more like Marxist Utopia bullshit because it never happens. Conservatives always increase the size of the government when they deem it necessary.

Yup. The largest expansion of the government in modern history was the Department of Homeland Security.

Conservatives are fine with big government, as long as they are in charge of it. It has always been so in my lifetime.