Poor conservatives, I don't get it. Righties please explain.

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I think it has to do with the idea that they think their monies are going to "unworthy" folks unlike them. We also have a populace so misinformed that they can seriously go and shout "get your government hands off my Medicare". So, basically, the right is wrong.

What we need is a return to compassionate conservatism, an emphasis on workfare and other social programs that emphasize personal responsibility. But HTMLdon is right, when people go and see the "weird" stuff crunchy democratic types promote, they are alienated, if not due to outright disagreement, then by a simple inability to relate. Like opposing an underground highway due to the temporary disruption of the migratory patterns of bass.

But your non-elitism is showing, HTMLdon. All of us know that Broadway musicals are actually part of the broad culture. Real high culture is opera. That used to be a conservative thing, shame. I would have liked to have had a chat with Buckley on Nabucco.