Does every conservative have a disdain for the world?

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Does every "conservative" in the United States ever think of people in places besides ours as better off than we are? It's messed up that people like Bill O'Reilly and Fox News nitpick everything that has to do with anything that isn't American. The rhetoric contradicts my views on society, which is why I stopped associating with the conservative movement.

It amazes me how little most people understand about eachother worldviews. The premise if flawed, and obviously partisan as presented but I can andress your premise as a Libertarian I have conservative friends and understand much of their points.

To a conservative there are some issues that are vital for happiness, just as to a Liberal there are in return.

1. Show a 1st world economy with the freedom to own firearms, and defend ones self with the choices Americans have..
2. Show a 1st world economy with a low tax rate, where folks keep what they earn and can control their money as Americans can.
3. Show a 1st world economy with large expanses of affordable land within suburbia and outside cities as America.
4. Show a 1st world economy with the religious freedoms that the US does, as most conservatives are religious in America.
5. Show a 1st world economy with the constitutional security to preserve the above benefits.

If you can't, then it sucks in a conservatives mind. Seeing it as nitpicking can be said about liberal issues as well...but the premise would still be wrong. Groups have standards. I moved from New York (a liberal crime ridden hell hole), where I lived for 27yrs and was born to live in the Paradise state of Montana. My communist brother in law in return hates Montana, and loves New York.

Our standards are different, I'm a libertarian in a purple state..He's a Communist in a blue state. I'll never get conservatives and liberals desire to control others, be it guns,drugs,sex, or what have you. The points perspective, either you understand something or you won't depending on where your looking from.

Wow, so basically are you saying a place like Austria I can own an AR15 in M4 configuration. Put a slidefire on (to increase the rate of fire to around 700 rounds per minute) and toss a 100 round drum on it like the we can in the US? In our home for our defense....really?

If not then they don't have comparable gun freedoms to a conservative, as the AR15 is the most popular rifle in America. The above gun is not even registered (as my state does not do that). I really don't believe I could own this in Europe without permits, or at all. (please correct me if I can.)

So unless you show a place where you can own this, they don't have comparable gun laws. They can't have gun registration, as most conservative states don't.. I never registered a gun in my life. So Italy fails, Austria fails, France and Germany fails. So I'm still waiting.

Sonofghandi, all you did was list a few disjointed items of what nation has features but you have not listed one with ALL the benchmarks a conservative needs. With every feature at least equal to the US or better. Random stats, that are incomplete are not an argument making any pointm it's more a distraction. The tax numbers you list are without context, they don't offer the other freedoms asked for. It's like I order a Pizza and you gave me rubber tire... It's an all or none question, you either name a nation with all features or fail. It's a fail so far...

Without listing a single nation with all 5 traits asked, you render your answer moot... It's not complete.

I hear Belize has many freedoms, many conservatives are building summer homes and whatnot there. So there's a place conservatives don't disdain.

So I guess it's "proven" for now, in the eyes of a conservative America is paradise and the world sucks...

(I'm not a "Conservative" I'm a pro-legalization of Drugs, marry-who-you-want, Libertarian... but I can understand the viewpoints of both Liberals and Conservatives.)

America is unique in that it offers both the Right and Left the option to live in a state fitting their interests. If you love guns and hate pot, move to right wing Texas, if you hate guns and love pot move to left wing California. If you love pot and guns, move to independent Montana. Confusing choice/needs with disdain is not accurate, do gay men disdain vaginas? Just because a liberal place is attractive to you, don't expect it to be to conservatives, but it's not disdain.

[quote="AutisticMillionaireSonofghandi, all you did was list a few disjointed items of what nation has features but you have not listed one with ALL the benchmarks a conservative needs. With every feature at least equal to the US or better. Random stats, that are incomplete are not an argument making any pointm it's more a distraction. The tax numbers you list are without context, they don't offer the other freedoms asked for. It's like I order a Pizza and you gave me rubber tire... It's an all or none question, you either name a nation with all features or fail. It's a fail so far...

Without listing a single nation with all 5 traits asked, you render your answer moot... It's not complete.
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You missed what I wrote at the end of my post. I do think that overall the US is the best. I just have a problem with you trying to pull out some fairly specific items that can easily be contested. If you want to hand pick 5 traits for any country you could use that to "prove" that that country is #1 overall.

for example:

Syria
1. proud tradition of oral and written poetry
2. free education
3. fossil fuel independence
4. personal tax rate<25%
5. life expectancy >75