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  • @[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