Common sense in politics, sports, and culture in the DC/MD/VA region
This Friday on 88.9 FM WEAA radio from 7:00pm to 8:00pm, I will be guest hosting Listen Up! with Justin Jones Fosu.
The topic is what is a “true conservative”, what is a Republican. I’ll propose a topic that has been popularized as a means test for conservatism. First topic is abortion. Is being pro-life a “true” resemblance of a conservative, and why?
About Trae LewisTrae Lewis is currently the President of the Baltimore Area Young Republicans and serves as the National Committeeman for the Maryland Young Republicans. He is a lifelong conservative and registered Republican since 2006, the same year he graduated from Howard University with a BA in political science. In 2010, Trae served as the field coordinator for the “Ehrlich for Baltimore City” gubernatorial campaign. Since 2010 he has appeared and has been featured in numerous Baltimore area print, radio, and television media outlets speaking on the cause of the Republican Party and conservatism as a whole.
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Interestingly enough, I have always regarded a pro-life stance as an inherently liberal stance, and I’m pro-life. I’ll expound on this idea in a future article.
Yes please write on it. I believe its a liberal stance as well
As a liberal, I actually agree. It’s my libertarian/individualist streak that always got in the way of my pro-life views. (And I was pro-life until my early 20′s.) But those same libertarian/individualistic viewpoints get in the way of a number of points that are considered progressive absolutes. But most of us, like Walt Whitman says, “contain multitudes.” For all of our labels, applied by ourselves or by others, the love of consistency continues to be the hobgoblin of little minds (and true fanatics on either side.)