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Shell_Seas

(3,565 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:40 PM Tuesday

Conservatism Is The Crisis

135 dead and all they care about is power.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/conservatism-is-the-crisis


Conservatism is a doctrine of harm. Full stop.

I’m done pretending it’s just another opinion. I’m done entertaining it as a respectable ideology. It is a system built on control, cruelty, and the preservation of power for the few at the expense of the many. And in Texas, while families are still digging through the wreckage, while mothers bury their children, the GOP is busy redrawing the lines of power.

Not to save lives. Not to fix what broke. But to cement their rule.

Because they believe, openly, proudly, that conservatism deserves to reign, no matter how many of us have to suffer under it.

That’s not just implied. It’s not some backroom confession.

It’s what Republican Senator Phil King said yesterday. (30-second clip)

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Conservatism Is The Crisis (Original Post) Shell_Seas Tuesday OP
Conservatism has destroyed Texas and continues to do so even today. walkingman Tuesday #1
Been saying it for years. Grins Yesterday #2

walkingman

(9,588 posts)
1. Conservatism has destroyed Texas and continues to do so even today.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:53 PM
Tuesday

This is a direct result of religion, an undereducated population, a lack of diversity in our vast rural areas.

It is getting worse not better.

Grins

(8,628 posts)
2. Been saying it for years.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 12:39 AM
Yesterday

The greatest leap the country ever made was between 1861 to 1866. When southern conservatives - and that’s what they were! - committed sedition and left the Capitol leaving the remaining members of Congress no opposition in the advance of the nation. DURING A CIVIL WAR - the country advanced.

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