| ▲ | bradleykingz a day ago |
| conservatives? |
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| ▲ | verelo a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Is that a joke? Seriously. I don't see any conservative remaining, and it's been a while. |
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| ▲ | tdhz77 a day ago | parent [-] | | It had to be a joke. Conservative policies have made things much worse. It’s hard to believe they have a party that gets 60 million people to vote for them. | | |
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| ▲ | willy_k a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Response to sister comment: conservatism, and the groups that claim to support it, are separate. Same with liberals, and socialists, and the Democrat Party. |
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| ▲ | dragontamer a day ago | parent | next [-] | | So name one. These politicans have names, do they not? We do have the name of one politician who balanced the New York City budget though. Its probably not going to please a lot of people to hear that guy's name though. But that's what people want, right? Balanced budgets? But no. That's not what people want and we all know it. | | |
| ▲ | LPisGood a day ago | parent | next [-] | | One aspect of that balanced budget that should be noted is that it does rely on a sizable funding increase from the state government. Now, that state is legally required to have a balanced budget itself, so perhaps this is a small side note rather than a major change in perspective. I just think it’s not spoken about enough when discussing how that budget process went. | | | |
| ▲ | willy_k 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | So what is he? A Democrat, and what else? Parties are groups of people, ideologies are pure ideals.
They are distinct, with overlaps in their demographics. |
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| ▲ | doobiedowner a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | If that were true, the streets would be punctuated by shrill screams in reaction to the past decade of Republican spending. |
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| ▲ | p_j_w a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| At least in the US, conservatives have done more to increase the debt than liberals for the last 40 years at least. |
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| ▲ | fragmede a day ago | parent [-] | | Turns out, that was just a lie that some people told fiscally conservative people to get them to vote against their interests, just like other "wedge" issues like abortion or trans people. |
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| ▲ | pjc50 a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Trump, sitting on top of a Republican government, is responsible for 10Trn of the debt, about a quarter. Conservatives gave up on principles long ago and have settled for simply lying about everything, including what's happening and who's responsible for it. |
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| ▲ | podocarp a day ago | parent [-] | | The words are so overloaded. Republican is just generic right wing. I think the "conservative" the parent is talking about is the neoliberalism like what Milton Friedman would propose. He would have wanted half of the government gone, next to no market intervention (he even argued against seatbelts in one lecture). That would actually be the "conservative" someone you stereotypically imagine like Ron Swanson would adopt, who describes the perfect government as just a person in a tiny white room. The Republicans are a joke, just like the Democrats. They're both there for themselves, and have no actual agenda, manifesto, ideals, or values. They've got all the junk identity politics, religion, abortion, immigration crap mixed in such that you're either picking crap or crap. There's nothing "liberal" about the Democrats and nothing "conservative" about the Republicans. The Republicans were even the ones who freed the slaves! Make of that what you will. | | |
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