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It wouldn’t really be going “back,” since we added an amendment to the Constitution for the direct election of senators… that being said, I don’t think we’re in need of more “direct democracy.” I don’t know if you’re joking, with all of the question marks and stuff at the end - this is random, but I’ve always liked the “interrobang” (a punctuation mark). [Interrobang</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang]Interrobang”>Interrobang - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Obviously, both liberals and conservatives can be really annoying, and the answers we’re getting are just people saying that whatever they aren’t is worse. I’ve always been in environments where conservatives are vastly outnumbered by liberals (if there are any vocal conservatives at all). </p>
<p>Being conservative myself, it’s a little weird when many arguments against whatever idea may be associated with conservatism are just framed as a question of, “Should we tolerate intolerance?” Intolerance of minority groups, the existence of the poor (!), illegal immigrants, etc.</p>
<p>Oh, and NonAntiAnarchist, I appreciate your somewhat Buckley-esque verbosity in the first post.</p>