i'm not convinced that conservatives are really afraid of change. Plenty of them liked Donald Trump above the other republicans precisely for the fact that he would shake things up. And if we look at libertarians specifically, there's a ton of them that don't want any government at all - that's a pretty big change for an ideology that supposedly doesn't want change. Some of it is a persistent failure to identify who the real enemies are and i think a touch of social darwinism.
i mean it's pretty hard to get a handle on what the good old days means to conservatives. if we're talking about social issues - republicans more or less have a definitive stance against gay people, black people, trans, etc and see themselves as morally superior basically and don't see a need to protect marginalized groups. This is what i meany by social darwinism. But i think there's more to conservatism than just these civil rights issues and i was just trying to see how broad i could make it.People didn't vote Trump because they wanted change from him. They voted him specifically to revert the changes of the previous administration and lead them back to the "good old days".
You "don't see color", do you?I'm also a conservative on civil rights (relative to the large majority of ERA) because I support free speech and I believe that civil liberties (basically, how you live your life in private) should be grounded in the individual and not identity groups.
It literally means the days before political correctness became more prevalent. That's all it is. Trump will allow you to tell racist/sexist/homophobic jokes again without getting in trouble. I honestly believe that is his largest selling point.i mean it's pretty hard to get a handle on what the good old days means to conservatives.
Miss me with this bullshit.
I've never understood the small government argument from conservatives and to be blunt I think it's bullshit. State government can be just as inefficient, so why not push it down further and let local governments handle things.I have a friend that's a die-hard Romney advocate and a Never-Trumper. He broke it down to two things:
- He wants the federal government to be smaller in size and power. He thinks there are lots of inefficiencies and unintended consequences when you try to solve everything at the federal level.
- Fiscal responsibility on the part of the government. He rambles about the national debt a lot.
I mean this genuinely: who does he consider the last good Republican president? Because all of the recent ones oversaw massive increases in the defecitI have a friend that's a die-hard Romney advocate and a Never-Trumper. He broke it down to two things:
- He wants the federal government to be smaller in size and power. He thinks there are lots of inefficiencies and unintended consequences when you try to solve everything at the federal level.
- Fiscal responsibility on the part of the government. He rambles about the national debt a lot.
First, wtf. Second:And no, I'm not being hyperbolic at all. I've had many arguments with teachers and administrators over the years about whether students should learn things at school, and most of the administrators end up saying 'no.'
I don't quite understand what you mean by this when talking about peoples' private lives.I'm also a conservative on civil rights (relative to the large majority of ERA) because I support free speech and I believe that civil liberties (basically, how you live your life in private) should be grounded in the individual and not identity groups.
As some people have pointed out already, OP didn't specify what he meant by "conservatism," and a lot of posters are just saying that the GOP is racist (which it obviously is). But there are a lot of different meanings to conservatism in different eras and different contexts. In the US right now, it basically means a new "Know Nothing" party: anti-evolution, anti-vaccine, LGBT+-phobic, racist, pro-war. But it can mean a lot of different things.
I'm pretty conservative on the two things I know very well, education and fitness/exercise. And I'm conservative in those two areas because I've seen what works, and what doesn't, and by and large it's the old stuff that works and the new stuff that doesn't. I think that schools should focus on teaching fundamental skills and information in literature, history, math, science, and foreign language, so that makes me 'conservative' among teachers. The liberal view in education (liberal meaning, the new way) is that schools should focus on students' consuming things and feeling good. (And no, I'm not being hyperbolic at all. I've had many arguments with teachers and administrators over the years about whether students should learn things at school, and most of the administrators end up saying 'no.')
I'm also a conservative on civil rights (relative to the large majority of ERA) because I support free speech and I believe that civil liberties (basically, how you live your life in private) should be grounded in the individual and not identity groups. But Americans who vote Republican right now would think that I'm a crazy leftist on those issues, when (ironically) I'm just taking the GOP's old stated positions and taking them seriously.
It all depends on context.
They have also massively approved of 'big government', again, it is just big government on the issues I approve of.I mean this genuinely: who does he consider the last good Republican president? Because all of the recent ones oversaw massive increases in the defecit