re: #147 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

There is a tacit assumption on the right that force and violence will eventually settle the issue in their favor and, indeed, that this is the only way they could achieve a favorable outcome. Conservatives have been losing intellectually and politically for 200+ years. At some level most of them know this, but the NRA and it’s sacred talisman, the civilian firearm, have promised a solution. They are badly mistaken in their blind faith that they have a monopoly on guns, let alone on the knowledge of how to use them but I fear that it will take an enormous tragedy to convince them of their error.

Conservatism I think one had a good about the excesses of the French Revolution. Other than that? It’s been defenses of slavery, child labor laws, opposing Civil Rights, etc. Now Republicans have been in the right on some of these issues but conservatives by and large have not. Conservatives are quite frankly too chickenshit to deal with change because they’d rather live in la la land.