@drunk_pi: This is just pure, filtrated BS.
Post links or GTFO.
You're simply pointing out reasons why the republican party isn't 100% conservative in every single aspect of political thought. Where do I start?
The Republican Party throughout history =/= Conservatives throughout history. The GOP of the past would be considered liberal/progressive just as the Democratic Party would be conservative or reactionary even. However, this is a simplistic statement, considering that political parties have always had factions within themselves. For example, the Democrats of the north were liberal and supportive of civil rights just as Dixiecrats of the south were reactionary. The same could be said about the GOP when Goldwater came to the ticket and supported civil rights, sparking a flip of the electoral map.
Given the statistically high risk of ending up poor if you have kids before marriage, the reliance on contraceptives is objectively less responsible than not having sex at all. The reasons (religious or otherwise) behind why you don't have sex are for the most part uninteresting. I fail to see your point.
People are going to have sex. It's called human nature. You can teach people not to have sex but teaching them what contraceptives can do for them as well as making affordable, as well as teaching basic sex ed can lower the rate of teen pregnancies and communicable diseases. The whole point is responsible sex over misguided teachings of abstinence and fear of sex can do. It could also lower the rates of unwanted pregnancies.
Also, the southern states are historically less wealthy than the northern ones, this was the case even when the democrats ruled the south. Less wealth means automatically higher crime rates on average. However, it takes a special kind of retard to ruin historically wealthy population centers in areas that already have a predisposition for higher wealth.
The Republicans have had control over the southern states in local and state positions in the past several decades. Blaming it on previous Democrats is a pisspoor excuse, especially when states like Kansas have adopted fiscal restraint and low taxes, only to see their state in high debt, and especially in West Virginia where the Opioid crisis has taken its toll on rural areas due to the lack of healthcare clinics, access to healthcare and treatment centers. The statistics have been put out supporting that most southern states have the worst education systems and the worst standard of living. There are problems with Democratic controlled states, no doubt about it but most Democratic states have the highest standard of living, better access to healthcare and education systems. It's not my problem that you continue to reject these findings in order to satisfy your emotional ideology.
Why did you even bring western Europe into this? It's a prime example of how to fail spectacularly. Western Europe was successful when it had a homogeneous society with high trust in public institutions and relatively sheltered markets This is changing rapidly, something which the rise of a real and proper right wing in several of these countries is very indicative of.
By taking advantage of a migrant crisis, of course reactionary parties are going to increase in popularity. Yet, it doesn't take away the successes of the Nordic states or any state that invests in education and healthcare, as well as other institutions necessary for the people. So how western Europe is failing is beyond me because so far, they're succeeding in most aspects where we are failing spectacularly, relying on failing institutions that have been defunded or even privatized because we have fallen for the idea that free markets are the only solution to everything.
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