My take on this is going to be a little different.
My impression of people here, possibly including myself, is that they aren't exactly conservative but more like going on radical, conservative being a highly elastic term, as is liberal. After all, you don't want conservative gun laws, you want liberal gun laws. Likewise, I don't get the impression that many people here support the police at all, in spite of a lot of them sounding like they'd like to be a policeman. The policeman being an arm of the government. And finally, there is a lot of people here also sound like they think they're victims of something or other.
There's more. When Nixon was president, if you recall, there were references to the "silent majority," and sometimes references to the people in the middle. I don't know if it's good or bad but honestly, I don't think there is anyone in the middle anymore, if there ever was.
And another thing: this business of showing the flag, "supporting the troops," and so on. That's what I call flag waving and amounts to phony patriotism. It costs nothing and does nothing. That American flag decal on the back of your Toyota won't get you into heaven, either. People who support the troops should be buying war bonds, only I'm not sure anyone is selling them. We've still got the ones issued in Richmond.
My impression of people here, possibly including myself, is that they aren't exactly conservative but more like going on radical, conservative being a highly elastic term, as is liberal. After all, you don't want conservative gun laws, you want liberal gun laws. Likewise, I don't get the impression that many people here support the police at all, in spite of a lot of them sounding like they'd like to be a policeman. The policeman being an arm of the government. And finally, there is a lot of people here also sound like they think they're victims of something or other.
There's more. When Nixon was president, if you recall, there were references to the "silent majority," and sometimes references to the people in the middle. I don't know if it's good or bad but honestly, I don't think there is anyone in the middle anymore, if there ever was.
And another thing: this business of showing the flag, "supporting the troops," and so on. That's what I call flag waving and amounts to phony patriotism. It costs nothing and does nothing. That American flag decal on the back of your Toyota won't get you into heaven, either. People who support the troops should be buying war bonds, only I'm not sure anyone is selling them. We've still got the ones issued in Richmond.