(08-11-2018, 10:05 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(08-10-2018, 10:54 PM)mikesez Wrote: We just haven't brought up the right topics.
Whenever one of the rare left wingers comes here and says something ridiculous, you guys usually pile on enough.
If you want shorthand, I'm basically a never Trumper who is getting more frustrated with more and more of the party getting quieter and quieter about the shananigans.

The Never Trumper Republican pundits supported the tax cut; they didn't argue against it like you. A Republican, even the most left wing version, would never argue in favor of socialism like you do.

You are clearly not a Republican. To claim you are is a lie.

I might actually disagree.  You're right, mikes positions are of or sympathetic to the left.  At the same time when you look at the David Brooks iteration of conservatism/republicanism it's imbued with the same basic premise that the market itself is unjust and that there needs to be government intervention in order to correct for its lack of fairness.  This leads to a derivative of the "better person" fallacy of the left when confronting the empirical failures of said intervention.  If only we had better people running these government bureaucracies then they would actually deliver as promised.  This is especially seductive to professionally educated doctors lawyers engineers etc. As they see themselves as the BETTER PEOPLE.

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