Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it’s improper when it comes to looks, which is everything in conservative systems.
I’m innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.
While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.
We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.
Movement Conservatism was a fringe force from the 1950s until the 1980s, when voters elected Movement Conservative Ronald Reagan to the White House. But even then, their control of the Republican Party was not a given.
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.
Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn’t build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.
Coming from Buffalo, N.Y., I recognize the distinct difference between inside-the-Beltway conservatives and lake-shore conservatives. It’s populist conservatism.
Most of us don’t think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting ‘comedic’ accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.
I think among different members there had been concerns that the RSC had grown so large, and it had many members who really didn’t have that conservative voting records, which really is a testimony to what a positive brand conservatism is.
There has been an unspoken assumption among establishment Republicans that all they have to do is wait out Hurricane Trump and then return to ‘normal’ conservatism.
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.
My fear is that people associate Rand Paul’s social conservatism with libertarianism, when it’s not.
It’s often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It’s time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.
In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people’s rights.
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
Republicans can win if they adopt a message and promote policies of conscientious conservatism where they lay out a vision of how to solve our nation’s problems, while at the same time push for a message of responsible and efficient government that focuses on accountability and results.
I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.
The ur-conservatives of the 1950s – William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and all the rest – were revolting not against a liberal administration but against the moderate conservatism of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
Conscientious conservatism includes responding to the needs and struggles of Americans with a responsible and efficient government and incorporating outside organizations that want to invest in the American people.
Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.
In the broader American culture – the mainstream media, the world of the arts and entertainment, the high-tech world, and the entire enterprise of public and private education – conservatism suffers a decided ill repute.
For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There’s a conservatism that has come into the gay community: ‘We’re just like you, just like everyone else.’
New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism – and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that’s why I love it here, because I feel wanted.
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism… to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he’s brilliant at. He can’t still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.
I put my conservatism up against anyone. I’m a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values… Questioning my conservatism doesn’t seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.
I’m very much engaged in the political battles, but I’m doing it as a supporter of Republicans out of conservatism rather than an active candidate.
The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom’s international legal obligations.
Modern conservatism was forged in the crucible of the 1970s inflation crisis, and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash many conservatives were convinced that there was nothing the Federal Reserve could do about the vast army of the unemployed without touching off a similar inflationary spiral.
As an ideology – and certainly as a political identity – conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.
Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.
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