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In reply to the discussion: Please...Cut the Crap~ [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)It's not really conservatism, either. It's corporatism. We just associate corporatism with conservatism and Republicans, because the corporatists hijacked their party first.
None of the 99 percent, conservatives or liberals, are being represented by these corporate vipers. We are ALL being impoverished, and we are ALL being stripped of our Constitutional protections.
Just as Third Way Democrats lie and pretend to value traditional Democratic policy goals like social safety nets and public education and protecting the environment, corporate Republicans lie to their base and pretend to value traditional conservative positions like small government and individual liberty.
Then the corporatists in BOTH parties get into office and support everything nobody but the one percent wants: a mammoth, predatory corporate government, a surveillance state, and destruction/corporatization of social safety nets, schools, and the environment.