Yep. It’s a shame people don’t understand that. Actually conservative viewpoints have been long gone from politics. I believe it was Michael Malice who said it–“conservatism is just progressivism driving the speed limit”.
Conservatism today is a complete misnomer and just shilling for the traditional religious folk. MAGA does nothing but play on those heart strings and they’re still able to lull in so many religious citizens.
I tend to think of and describe myself as a conservative, but don’t align myself with the Republican party at all (I am registered to vote Republican to try to weed out the worst of their lunatics in the primaries, but it’s gonna be a cold day in hell before I vote for one in a general election with the way things are going)
In my view, which absolutely isn’t the view of the Republicans or conservatives as a whole, the point of conservatism is to just pump the breaks and slow things down to make sure all the "I"s are dotted and "t"s crossed to make sure things are actually going to work as intended.
Liberals/leftists/progressives should basically be the “idea guys” coming up with big general plans for what they want to happen
Then the conservatives would be sort of the bean-counters/logistics/nuts-and-bolts sort of guys. They shouldn’t be there to outright oppose the liberal ideas, they’re there to point out the problems with their plans and make sure they’re addressed before we commit to some half-assed plan.
Yep. It’s a shame people don’t understand that. Actually conservative viewpoints have been long gone from politics. I believe it was Michael Malice who said it–“conservatism is just progressivism driving the speed limit”.
Conservatism today is a complete misnomer and just shilling for the traditional religious folk. MAGA does nothing but play on those heart strings and they’re still able to lull in so many religious citizens.
I tend to think of and describe myself as a conservative, but don’t align myself with the Republican party at all (I am registered to vote Republican to try to weed out the worst of their lunatics in the primaries, but it’s gonna be a cold day in hell before I vote for one in a general election with the way things are going)
In my view, which absolutely isn’t the view of the Republicans or conservatives as a whole, the point of conservatism is to just pump the breaks and slow things down to make sure all the "I"s are dotted and "t"s crossed to make sure things are actually going to work as intended.
Liberals/leftists/progressives should basically be the “idea guys” coming up with big general plans for what they want to happen
Then the conservatives would be sort of the bean-counters/logistics/nuts-and-bolts sort of guys. They shouldn’t be there to outright oppose the liberal ideas, they’re there to point out the problems with their plans and make sure they’re addressed before we commit to some half-assed plan.