*sigh* Growing up, I got the impression that the conservative philosophy could be summed up as follows:
1) The world is been a miserable place, it always was, and always shall be.
2) So shut up and stop whining.
3) If you work hard, you shall succeed.
(Corollary to 3: If you didn't succeed, think long and hard about what would have happened if you had
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You have a philosophy where pain (causing it to others and suffering it yourself) is the best way to achieve something and where self-congratulatory smugness is the best frame of mind in which to make decisions, and you wonder how that could possibly have gone wrong with it?
As Rand was so fond of saying, check your premises. Or in this case, check your values. You've gotten exactly what you asked for, you're just complaining because it isn't what you had in mind.
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