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Do You Really Understand Conservatism or Common Sense?

8Dec

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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, National, Top Stories

Do You Really Understand Conservatism or Common Sense?

By Russ Minary | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” In the very funny 1987 film, ‘The Princess Bride,’ the character Inigo Montoya clearly identifies a problem that plagues both culture and politics today: people use words without thinking, understanding or agreeing upon their meaning, which leads to needless mistakes, arguments and division. We often use words like conservative and common sense, assuming that the average American knows what those words mean. But hardly anyone really understands or agrees upon their precise meaning. And there is no such thing as an average American. We are all spectacularly unique beings, unlike zebras or rats. Last May, I penned an ar...

Why birthrates might quietly reshape America’s political future

18Nov

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American Thinker, Approved, Commentary, National

Why birthrates might quietly reshape America’s political future

By Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker Politics may be downstream from culture, but culture is downstream from cribs. In the U.S. and across the West, who’s having children today will shape who’s running the country tomorrow. In the U.S. and other Western democracies, shifts in fertility, family structure, migration, and well-being are quietly redrawing the political map. Start with the simplest but most potent fact: elections are not won by ideas alone, but by people. This means new people - babies born, children raised, immigrants integrated, voters replaced. As conservative commentator Grant Mercer recently put it in his article “Womb Wars: The Future Belongs to Conservatives,” the left may be fighting for ideas, but if it fails to reproduce the ...

Garbo: The optics of ‘reason’ are working—and Republicans keep helping

25Jun

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Garbo: The optics of ‘reason’ are working—and Republicans keep helping

By C. J. Garbo | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Outside of the state legislature in the world of the average voter, Colorado Democrats have deftly positioned themselves as the calm, steady voice in a chaotic political environment. Their latest press release condemning the Douglas County Home Rule initiative - from CDP Chair Shad Murib and County Democrat Chair Meg Furlow - follows a long, deliberate pattern: contrast Republicans’ chaos with Democrats’ reason. It’s politics distilled for those unversed or fatigued by ideology. A Seasoned Pause Amid Schoolyard Chaos Remember the rancor surrounding the school board meetings in Douglas County? Heated rhetoric. Personal attacks. Ostracism of dissenters. In that frenzied atmosphere, Democrats stepped in as the adults in...

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Do You Really Understand Conservatism or Common Sense?

Why birthrates might quietly reshape America’s political future

Garbo: The optics of ‘reason’ are working—and Republicans keep helping

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