Conservative Revolution?

ARealConservative said:

I'm a conservative of today and it fits me

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Then you are the rarity. People of today who often proclaim to be "conservatives" very little in common with true "conservatism".
Todays "Conservatives" are usually the most vocal advocates for Huge Government. They want Government involved in everything from the so-called "Patriot Act", to legislating morality, to government involvement in religion. These are the very things that Goldwater rallied against.
There hasn't been a true national conservative movement since Goldwater.
The current movement led by Limbaugh and his cohorts has little to do with "Conservatism" and a lot to do with big government involvement into the most core basics of our lives.

disneydude said:

There hasn't been a true national conservative movement since Goldwater.
The current movement led by Limbaugh and his cohorts has little to do with "Conservatism" and a lot to do with big government involvement into the most core basics of our lives.

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there is one right now.
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Yes I should have more more clear, I thought asking the question "was it really a revolution at all?" would have hinted at my definition.

Nevermind.

In this case I define "conservative" as the fact that the Americans were trying to preserve their rights instead of fight for new ones.

Modern conservatives and libertarians intersect to the extent to which both want to preserve the system of limited government on which the country was founded.

Modern liberals have less desire for this than modern conservatives. So, that is the respect in which I think libertarianism falls more in line with modern American conservatism.

Now, it departs from modern American conservatism in those areas where conservatives want the government to enforce social policy. But those areas are, for the most part, smaller and fewer than the areas where modern liberals want to see it.

(Generally speaking, if you're claiming that something is a "right" and also claiming the government should fund it, well, that's just not libertarian.)