What major contributions to American society have Conservatives made?

[Pb207]

your pell grant and student loan to learn all this drivel-----please pay your loan back soon we need the money back

[mammotheye447]

Jobs. Work ethic. Individual responsibility. Self reliance.

The major contributions of Progressives (a misnomer if ever there was one) are:

Creation of an expanding class of societal parasites.

Destruction of education.

Theft of private property (income tax).

The list is too long to type. I just hit on some of the high spots for Progressive contributions.

Social security is not an accomplishment nor is Medicare or the income tax. And the minimum wage is a joke. Raising wages drives inflation. In the end, a zero sum effect.

[Wanda Bagram]

The American Revolution - By the 1750s and 1760s some colonial institutions had conservative aspects. Although the colonists lived under the freest government in the European world, they were fiercely determined to protect and preserve their historic rights.

The Federalist Party- dominated by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton used the presidency of George Washington to promote a strong nation capable of holding its own in world affairs, with a strong army and navy, capable of suppressing internal revolts (such as the Whiskey Rebellion) and founding the national finances on a sound basis while winning the broad support of the financial and business community. Intellectually, Federalists, while devoted to liberty held profoundly conservative views atuned to the American character.

Southern conservatism - By the late 1930s conservative Southern Democrats in Congress joined with most Northern Republicans in an informal Conservative Coalition that usually proved decisive in stopping liberal domestic legislation until 1964. However the Southerners generally were much more internationalist than the mostly isolationist Republicans in the Coalition.

The Gilded Age - Conservatives in the 20th Century, looking back at the Gilded Age, retroactively applied the word "conservative" to those who supported unrestrained capitalism. For example, Oswald Garrison Villard, writing in 1939, characterized his former mentor Horace White (1834–1916) as "a great economic conservative; had he lived to see the days of the New Deal financing he would probably have cried out loud and promptly demised."

Empire- The election of 1900 ratified McKinley's policies and the U.S. possession of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and (temporarily) Cuba. Theodore Roosevelt promoted the military and naval advantages of the U.S., and echoed McKinley's theme that America had a duty to civilize and modernize the heathen. The supposed business, religious, and military advantages of having an empire proved illusory; by 1908 or so the most ardent imperialists, including Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Elihu Root turned their attention to building up an army and navy at home and to building the Panama Canal.

[Invisible Monsters]

NASCAR
Beer hat
Rain dancing
Larry the cable guy
Meth

I think saying paying taxes is the biggest admission to worthlessness
Who doesn't pay taxes?
Conservatives contribute nothing to society