Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks

Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by aphextron on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:24PM (#15827045)

>I think there’s a wide difference between “classical” conservatism of the likes of George H. W.; and the tea party/trump/nazi ideology soup. I think the first kind is fine and welcome to an extent.

Precisely. We need conservatism. We need that part of our conscience which says "well, hold on a minute", or "hey we can't afford that" in order to function properly as a democracy. It's loss is a tragedy, and the corruption of those ideals over the past 30 years into what it has become is breaking our country.

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by irhd on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:55PM (#15827372)

> We need conservatism

I disagree at this point honestly.

course all I've ever seen of american conservatism is the current republican party.

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by pwinnski on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:32PM (#15827725)

This seems like an instance of SV's bias toward the young biting SV in the collective butt.

People who remember the 70s and 80s remember a different political environment.

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:14PM (#15828159)

Yes, true.

When things seem overwhelming, I like to remind myself that in the 60s things seemed worse. (To me, the 80s and 90s were very good.)

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