Commentary: Longtime former Republican on Patrick Deneen and the demise of the conservative intellectual

  • @sauerkraus
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t be crediting them with enacting good policy if it wasn’t progressive.

    If you can show an example of opposing progress that is good I’m all in on that conservative policy.

    The ESA was not good because it maintained the status quo. It was good because it was progressive. The fact that it was implemented during a conservative presidency is irrelevant.

    • @madcaesar
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      71 year ago

      May I also just add, that for his example he had to go, 60 years into the past…

      My entire lifetime, the GOP has simply don’t nothing that has helped the average Joe. It’s always hate based culture wars, tax cuts and protect guns. That’s it.

      They provide zero solutions for anything. And if you do try to provide a solution, which inevitably will have painful parts to it because fixing things is hard, they blast propaganda how you’re anti American. They are just not interesting in governing.

    • @SCB
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      -11 year ago

      You’re buying in too much to the branding of big-P Progressive. The EPA, and environmental protections, are inherently little-c conservative positions.

      Not everything that is good is Progressive, and not everything Progressives want is good, or even intelligent. Rent control, as one very basic example, doesn’t work, and yet Progressives across America push it.

      • @Tigerfishy
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        11 year ago

        What doesn’t work about it? (I honestly know nothing about it, but I know there are things that sound great on paper and propaganda but in practice it’s bull)

        • @SCB
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          11 year ago

          Rent control disincentives building new apartments, because there is little financial incentive in doing so in an area choked by supply shortages, thus it exacerbates supply shortages over time.

          See here: https://www.nmhc.org/news/articles/the-high-cost-of-rent-control/

          Note that this is not theoretical - we’ve seen rent control attempted to poor effect worldwide