It might be interesting to note that Reagan was head of SAG, and a Democrat at the same time the Democrats WERE the segregationists in the south, and changed parties about the same time they did. He became the “symbol” of “conservative”, but would indeed be viewed in a “blind taste test” among current “conservatives” as a “flaming liberal”.
I don’t have a problem with TRUE “conservatives” as illustrated by Ike, but it is the RADICALISM of today’s “right” that is scary to a person born during WW II, who has studied history, and participated in war.
Wuerker is quite correct to illustrate that “conservatism” and the Republican party HAVE taken a VERY hard “right turn” since even Reagan, and that turn is actually orchestrated by some folks who were once “lefties”- in sheets at night, and corporate board rooms in the day.
It might be interesting to note that Reagan was head of SAG, and a Democrat at the same time the Democrats WERE the segregationists in the south, and changed parties about the same time they did. He became the “symbol” of “conservative”, but would indeed be viewed in a “blind taste test” among current “conservatives” as a “flaming liberal”.
I don’t have a problem with TRUE “conservatives” as illustrated by Ike, but it is the RADICALISM of today’s “right” that is scary to a person born during WW II, who has studied history, and participated in war.
Wuerker is quite correct to illustrate that “conservatism” and the Republican party HAVE taken a VERY hard “right turn” since even Reagan, and that turn is actually orchestrated by some folks who were once “lefties”- in sheets at night, and corporate board rooms in the day.