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-9 Post author: h-H 06 June 2012 07:57PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 June 2012 07:16:54AM *  0 points [-]

I agree with you that if we wait long enough everyone who considers themselves conservative will approve of whatever social changes we make, supposing those social changes last that long.

I don't believe that implementing your proposal right away will make conservatives currently happy.

We agree on these points.

I don't have a clear sense of what you mean by "traditionalists."

Basically people who are nerds about adhering to some older traditional style Christianity. Some of them are protestants but their intellectual core as you may have guessed from the blogs are Catholic and Orthodox. As odd as this might sound American Evangelical fundamentalists are actually mostly practising a young take on the religion.

I am not sure whether (X2 > X1) or (X2 < X1) by any interesting metric, and I'm fairly certain that (X1 > .1X2).

I think X1 probably consists mostly of economic issues.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 11 June 2012 01:19:56PM 0 points [-]

I think X1 probably consists mostly of economic issues.

That is certainly consistent with a popular narrative about American conservatism now and 40 years ago. Whether statistics back it up, I don't know.