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I want to compile a master list of what conservatives stand for.
Let's start with "they believe in trickle down". How about giving the wealthy everything they want will make America great. Another one is "all regulations are bad".
Any more?
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)No early child care. No coverage for birth control. Little pregnancy coverage.
In It to Win It
(8,248 posts)If the government decided tomorrow to do away with food stamps, the Walmart family and farmers would be the first in line to lobby against it. Food stamps are billions of dollars flowing straight to them.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)at the total expense of everyone else.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,847 posts)There are no core beliefs other than to help themselves and to empower an executive who will help them.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)From my experience the George Will - William F Buckley conservatism is dead.
It is now a place for overt racists, and hate mongers who wish to stew in tribalism and xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, and don't care if i against their own economic interests, as long as they can "stick it to the libs."
It is a grievance cult.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)The profiteering manipulators and the ignorant rubes. Often both at the same time. Both definitely racist, selfish and spiteful.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)reactionaries and have been that way prob from the minute Eisenhower left office.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)true conservatives favor small government, as well as fiscal and personal responsibility.
Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)Conservatives DO NOT believe in the following at the Federal, State, or Local levels that taxes pay for...
Paved Roads and Bridges, Highway Systems
Public Education
National and State Parks
Safe Water, Skies, Clean Air, Safe Food
Safe working conditions
Law Enforcement
Fire Departments
Basic Services that promote the General Welfare
Garbage Pickup
Science
Just a few things I can think of.
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,962 posts)Self aggrandizing.
Everything else, bigger government, no right to privacy etc. is fine and dandy if it supports the pursuit of wealth.