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  • @Burn_The_Right
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    301 year ago

    Is there a such thing as a good conservative? Serious question. I don’t think there is.

    • @[email protected]
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      -11 year ago

      You could believe in personal responsibility for your own actions, fiscal responsibility/frugality with tax dollars, limited government intrusion on personal rights etc and generally be a good person.

      It’s the Conservatives in Name Only that are the bad hypocrits.

      • @Burn_The_Right
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        151 year ago

        Every one of those traits describe many progressives as well (myself included). I don’t think those descriptors are sufficient to describe conservatives. I think when someone says “conservative” these days, they mean “socially conservative”.

        More specific descriptors of a modern “conservative” would include:

        Resistant to progress

        Distrustful of education

        Distrustful of medical science

        Distrustful of climate science

        Prone to bigotry

        Prone to xenophobia

        Prone to misogyny

        Prone to homophobia

        Prone to racism

        Prone to support authoritarian government styles

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          Firstly, I agree generally. I am just pointing out that the principals espoused and prioritized by the “conservative” party in the US have been wholly abandoned.

          Calling for tiny government but then advocating for more stricter laws and authoritarianism is broken.

      • @makyo
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        51 year ago

        The hilarious thing is that the few conservatives left that fit your description are considered the RINOs by the party at large