Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "On Abortion, Islam, and Donald Trump (Pt. 3) | David Horowitz | POLITICS | Rubin Report" video.

  1. "Conservatism" in current US parlance is a broad term covering many ideas which are at least partly independent of another: religious freedom, moral retrenchment, strong defense, fiscal responsibility, limited government, civil rights, libertarian ideas. Some of these are partly in tension with one another. Mr. Rubin, before striking out on his own, was part of the Young Turks network. He left that connection, and modern leftism, over what he saw as oppressive authoritarianism and tendentious obscurantism on the part of the side he had called his own. He at first was trying to restrain the excesses of the left from within, but he said something like, "Increasingly I find that defending my classical liberal values is regarded as a conservative position." He still is not quite comfortable with calling himself a conservative. Between him and his guests, you should be able to glean a good notion of what conservatism is about. Another source would be Praeger University, here on U-tube, providing 5 minute introductions to conservative views on various subjects. Conservatives are eager to talk to him, because he will conduct a civil conversation with his guests based on reason, even those with whom he disagrees. Leftist won't for some reason (I would suppose the same reason).
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