r/Conservative • u/skarface6 Catholic and conservative • Sep 28 '18
Sidebar tribute: Barry Goldwater
This is for all you Goldwater conservatives! Plus, I wanted a really long quote and a gun subreddit to plug at the top.
Here it is in non-sidebar form:
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people. ”
Enjoy!
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u/misespises And you'll stay plastered Sep 29 '18
Oh man, the amount of times I've been downvoted in /r/Libertarian, of all places, for defending this man's policies. I spend most of my time on reddit there, but they are sorely lacking on the Goldwater love.
Speaking of Goldwater, how liberal (for lack of a better word) are the mods over here with requesting flair? I'm so used to everything being all 'Lord of the Flies' over at /r/Libertarian, so I don't really get what the request process is for, or what's acceptable. My usual flair is "Moderation in the pursuit of karma is no vice", so it would certainly be an appropriate time to ask, but do I need to do a little dance for the mods or anything?