Right wing as in "right", not the direction Conservatives are usually correct in everything they say, thus the term.
There's a point where principle must compromise with practice. Even though your post may be ironic, I feel obliged to reply to it. To restrict gun ownership and use is simply a reasonable derivative of statistics comparing societies with more or less gun control contra gun violence, accidental deaths, suicides, murders etc.. Politics is hugely a compromise between liberty and security, and in this case the democrats take the side of security. And come on, what's so friggin' great about owning a gun anyway?
I just think its because conservatives want everything to stay as it was - or as they think it was - and the past usually being more authoritarian they are the authoritarian ones while the progressives are the those seeking away from it.
That's just dumb. Firstly it doesn't seem effective, U.S. politicians tend to say and do way more stupid and offensive shit than politicians in countries with gun control. And secondly, even if it was effective, is that the relationship you would want? Government officials feeling legitimately life-threatened from its citizens, and not just homicidal maniacs? What you would basically imply is that violence, and the threat of it, is a legitimate and moral conduct of politics. I prefer reason. Maybe I'm insane.
That government soldier or police officer who is trying to enforce the will of the oppressor will think twice if they try to oppress you. You'd think we're just over half a century out of WW2 people would understand the need for a populace to resist a totalitarian government. Oh I bet you think it can't happen again. Typical.
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Won't stop a tank, but it will stop that soldier from hurting your family if need be. I know most liberals would cower and even turn their families over to save themselves, but it shouldn't be hard to understand.
Very true. If me and my now wife hadn't of gave this world a little surprise at a young age, I would of went into the navy. But couldn't stand the idea of being away for so long from my family. A sacrifice I couldn't make.
Not sure how it is most countries, but we're an all volunteer force. I know some countries like Israel, there's conscription..while others it's either military or civil service. In our short history, we were born from war, survived through war via our Civil War, and helped keep the planet overall free from tyrants (WW2). So a lot of respect is given to our military and our military gives it right back. One grandfather of mine was in WW1, the other Korea. My dad was in Vietnam, a cousin in Iraqi Freedom. Also, a couple who served in peacetime. It's a regret I'll carry that I never joined, but again couldn't make that sacrifice.
The terms left and right in politics originate from the National Assembly during the French Revolution; those who favored the revolution sat on to the left of the presiding officer, and those who favored the establishment (king and nobility) sat on the right. The association of modern conservatism with right-wing politics extends to the same period, with a split forming among European conservatives, in the 19th century, between those who favored industrial capitalism as a means of preserving the status quo vs. those who favored a rigid aristocracy. The aristocrats lost.
Conservatism isn't about sustaining any status quo, even those that are established by left-wing factions. It is the sustenance of a particular status quo in the face of constant revolutionary pressure, based upon an appeal to tradition as the ultimate expression of human wisdom.
I think conservatives are both evil and stupid, so there is an exception.