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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
"Feelings" should not have any place in policy or law. The correct word is "rights."
You have certain rights upon which I cannot infringe, regardless of my "feelings" about whether and to what extent you should have those rights.
So lump me in with the "fuck your feelings' crowd in regard to policy and law. Policy and law are not the place where we assuage anyone's "feelings." There is no obligation to make sure people's feelings are not hurt. We can and should discuss things like feelings, but that's between private individuals, not a matter for govt intervention.
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Thanks for reading my post, but you completely missed my point. When conservatives wear shirts that say, "fuck your feelings," no one calls them arrogant, and the mainstream media civility police don't leap into action. When Rep. Maxine Waters (D. - Cal.) makes ambiguous comments about shaming politicians, conservatives leap into outrage, an emotion that curiously expressed itself as more like gleeful celebration when Rep. Greg Gianforte (R. - Mont.) actually physically assaulted a reporter. As Michael Kinsley once said, I think, half of national politics is Republicans clutching their pearls about Democrats doing things that Republicans rolled out two election cycles earlier.
eta: "Mike Kinsley once wisely noted that half of politics is Republicans getting vapors when Democrats try out tactics Republicans pioneered two cycles earlier"
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But the rest of your point - that most conservatives today (and almost all Trumpkins) aren't conservatives at all, is accurate.
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And that wasn't my point either. My point is that conservatism *is* where most conservatives are. What is is has changed, because conservatives have changed in. People like SEC Chick have been left behind as the movement has gone somewhere else. The sooner the rest of us realize this and get a grip on it, the better. Pretending that there is some Platonic ideal of conservatism that most conservatives are ignorantly deviating from is just denial.
