Disaffected Conservatives Don’t Need a Welcome Sign
They need to change their political views. A blog post by David Van Risseghem accused me of taking down the “welcome sign” to disaffected conservatives who are upset that a “true conservative” isn’t going to be the RNC nominee for president in the 2016 elections. Actually, he’s correct. I don’t deny it. But let me explain. Like it or not, social conservativism is a dying ideology that deserves to die because it seeks to use the power of government to achieve its ends. Social conservatives have stood in the way of liberty for all Americans for a really long time. Whether we are talking about same-sex marriage, immigration, cannabis legalization, civil asset forfeiture, criminal justice reform, capital punishment, NSA privacy (Edward Snowden), the police state, free trade, or preemptive war, conservatives have been on the opposite side of the Libertarian Party. These differences aren’t small. But now since some feel they have lost their own political party, they want a ne...