Conservatives, what are you conserving?

In God we trust.
Marriage (actual).
Nuclear family as cornerstone of society.
Private property rights.
Fiscal responsibility.
National borders.
Our history.
Our national identity.
Work ethic.
Meritocracy.
Individual freedom.
...

Counter question: neo-socialist progressives: WHY are you trying to throw all thar away, and turn us into Cuba/Venezuela???

 

I was chuckling until I came to "national identity." On this I sort of agree that they are making an attempt at "conserving" something....although it really should say "ethnic identity."

 

I applaud you for leaving off law and order

 

The Republican Party is a fascist populist party now. Conservatism has been abandoned.

The Dems are far more fiscally conservative these days.

 

“No policy preferences are worth risking the Constitution.” The article hits on my views as well and brings to mind a great passage from the 1937 senate judiciary committee refusing FDRs efforts to pack the court:

For the protection of the people, for the preservation of the rights of the individual, for the maintenance of the liberties of minorities, for maintaining the checks and balances of our dual system, the three branches of the government were so constituted that the independent expression of honest difference of opinion could never be restrained in the people's servants and no one branch could overawe or subjugate the others. That is the American system. It is immeasurably more important, immeasurably more sacred to the people of America, indeed, to the people of all the world than the immediate adoption of any legislation however beneficial.
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New Deal Legislation | Pepperdine School of Public Policy

 

Liberals - What are you liberating?

 

Marriage:
trump married a woman had children, cheated on her, left her, married again had children, cheated and left her. Married a 3rd time to a woman 25 yrs younger, cheated on her when SHE was pregnant with a woman also 25 years younger and then cheated again with a porn star 33 years younger. So it’s a way of life for trump and the only thing that stopped him is his age.

Fiscal responsibility:
Under trump, we were running approx 1T /yr deficit This was an increase from Obama and before Covid. Any economic review of his platform for a 2nd term this will continue.

 

Our country from a shitty existence under Trump. We’re trying to do you all a favor despite you actively voting against your own interests.

 

Of course "Conservativism" in its present form represents a revolt against the re-envisioning of the Constitution in the New Deal era. At present they are living in fruits of their near total victory in that regard (they even turned the Democrats into Reaganites), and instead see everywhere a culture that largely hates what they stand for. It must be pretty maddening, hence their obsession with "woke" and culture wars.

 

Unfortunately this country will still be shitty until it is liberated from a lot more than who is president

 

Too bad as the shitty experience wagon is hooked to the Biden Administration which has doled out plenty of misery on the American people.

 

Same argument same complaints from both sides, rinse repeat. What are you voting for?

Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden.... "If you just give our candidate another four years we will xyz"

You see how your failed leaders are getting all of you to carry their water? When all they do is whats in the best interest of their party and pockets.

 

Cons from weirdness.

 

Personally, I am pretty confused by the present moment. Conservatives being scared of transgender people fits with my Gen X perspective, but I also sense an odd reversal where conservatives are the ones now railing against big corporations. I am in a book club with two staunch conservatives. One defended DeSantis’ attacks on Disney because the government is less dangerous than corporations, and the other for our next book just selected Manufacturing Consent.

 

There's someone you forgot to include that thinks that we'll be better off by voting for them. Although we all know that they will be better off but we won't

 

Among other longstanding tenets, a definitive answer to “What is a woman ?”

 

Kamala hasn't won the nomination yet but she's an unpopular vice president to an unpopular president. I only mentioned past president's. It's the same bs over and over while we get promises of change. Like I said... "if only my party gets another 4 years everything will be better...".

Not much actually changes and half the country remains unhappy.

 

NB: GOP =/= Conservatives.

The big GOP tent is just the closest thing to a home in thr political realm, for conservatives.

E.g.--the neo-fascist progressive dominated Dummyrat party is utterly uninhabitable for conservatives.