Current Events > What are some examples of Conservative beliefs?

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I need to know where I am on the political spectrum.

Are you a racist by any chance

Disgusting hate

denying people meaningful education.

"fuck you, i got mine"

the 1st amendment isn't freedom from religion being forced on you

Missionary is the only sex position God approves of.

Hierarchy is good and necessary, and those at the top deserve to be there

Too much government regulation is damaging to the free market

Do you believe in a strict power heirarchy in which there are "haves" and "have nots", and that at all times this must be maintained and largely untouched?

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That Black people aren't people.

Reagan x Thatcher OTP!

Guns are the greatest invention in human history and must be protected at all costs

The rich are gods among us and need even more money.

Racism , Homophobia, transphobia, women should not control their bodies.

And before someone is like no way, you can't pain the right like that. All off these things are a literally a part of leading republicans platforms.

Okay, this is humorous, guys. But I am curious to see some genuine responses from some of the more Conservative posters here, so that I can have a less bias angle itt.

guns > human life

Racism
Guns
Fetuses being more important than children

"I'm alright Jack, fuck you"

Adherence to the status quo, reverence of traditional values and founding principles

Kitt posted...

Okay, this is humorous, guys. But I am curious to see some genuine responses from some of the more Conservative posters here as well, so that I can have a less bias angle itt.

I literally told you the core belief that all others stem from. Just take any particular talking point that you want, apply what I said, and then you have the conservative belief.

Crimsoness posted...

Adherence to the status quo, reverence of traditional values and founding principles

Except for Democracy, that can go

Kitt posted...

Okay, this is humorous, guys. But I am curious to see some genuine responses from some of the more Conservative posters here as well, so that I can have a less bias angle itt.

you're not going to get any genuine, good faith responses from any of the conservative posters here. if they respond at all, the best you're going to get is shit like "oh i'd love to tell you about my beliefs but if i try to tell you, i'll get modded for posting wrongthink that goes against the narrative of this liberal hivemind echo chamber".

Boombam99 posted...

Except for Democracy, that can go

There wasn't a whole hell of a lot of democracy in the constitution anyway.

DoesntMatter posted...

you're not going to get any genuine, good faith responses from any of the conservative posters here. if they respond at all, the best you're going to get is shit like "oh i'd love to tell you about my beliefs but if i try to tell you, i'll get modded for posting wrongthink that goes against the narrative of this liberal hivemind echo chamber".

You're probably right, which is a shame. I would really like to see an actual Conservative's take on the matter, so I can have a better understanding of their stances and beliefs.

well if my dad is any good metric:

• lower taxes
  
• lower gas prices
  
• more police funding
  
• gutting of welfare programs
• fewer corporate regulations

Bump up jam. Bump it up.

Jesus

Staging a treasonous coup because you lost fair and square.

Owning the libs

It depends of which neck of conservatism you're looking at.

There's what I call the Capitalism Conservative, or the Ayn Randian conservative, named for the author of Atlus Shrugged, a book many of them idolize. These people live and die by their belief in the free market. It's a sliding spectrum, but perfectly realized it materializes as a belief that the government has no business regulating anything in the private business sector. Everything from antitrust laws to outlawing segregation can be viewed as "wrong," for forcing the Invisible Hand before it was ready (Ayn Rand notably believed both of these examples, according to her for that reason). These people tend to either be 1) very rich, b) have a very poor grasp of how the market works in real life, or c) a near-deification attitude toward the rich. Strong believers in Trickle Down Economics, and quick to cry "SOCIALISM!" at the government doing literally anything other than starting wars. Near Boogeyman-level of paranoia around socialism, but likely cannot properly define it, and will likely pretend that things like 40 hour workweeks and child labor laws arent socialism. Lots of residual Cold War era red-scare McCarthyism.

2) The Religious conservative. Not necessarily Christian, although they often do skew that way. Extremely old-world social values. The flavors of the day are LGBTQ and Abortion hate, but they've been around forever. Historically have cried "devilry" over rap music, metal, rock music, jazz, video games, violent movies, TV, magazines, books, fairy tales, those gosh darn horseless carriages, and the works of William Shakespeare. Often found pretending that the 50s were some sort of beacon of moral and sexual purity. Sometimes will claim that they "aren't AGAINST these things, they just don't want to see it" as their justification for quashing free speech, expression, etc.

3) The "Modern" conservative, so named because they've gotten a lot more popular lately. The Democrats are forming underground baby canabalism rings with Tom Hanks, and replacing people with clones grown in Nancy Pelosi's basement. They have a Jewish Space Laser they use to assassinate people with Covid, and secretly want to sell us all into Chinese slavery circuits. JFK Jr will return from the dead and declare himself president with Donald Trump as his God Emperor, and he'll be the 18th president because every election since the 1960s has been an illegitimate front run by the corporations. And they're dumping chemicals in the rivers to turn your kids trans and the freaking frogs gay. Lots of overlap with QAnon, but not necessarily 100%.

Overlaping trends: extreme distrust of power, degerence to hierarchies (ironic, as if the government is somehow less trustworthy than the ultra-wealthy), belief in something "bigger" than themselves that can't be understood (God, conspiracies, whatever), belief that things were better in the past, resistance to change, blaming modern problems on groups that have been "other'd."

DarkBuster22904 posted...

It depends of which neck of conservatism you're looking at.

There's what I call the Capitalism Conservative, or the Ayn Randian conservative, named for the author of Atlus Shrugged, a book many of them idolize. These people live and die by their belief in the free market. It's a sliding spectrum, but perfectly realized it materializes as a belief that the government has no business regulating anything in the private business sector. Everything from antitrust laws to outlawing segregation can be viewed as "wrong," for forcing the Invisible Hand before it was ready (Ayn Rand notably believed both of these examples, according to her for that reason). These people tend to either be 1) very rich, b) have a very poor grasp of how the market works in real life, or c) a near-deification attitude toward the rich. Strong believers in Trickle Down Economics, and quick to cry "SOCIALISM!" at the government doing literally anything other than starting wars. Near Boogeyman-level of paranoia around socialism, but likely cannot properly define it, and will likely pretend that things like 40 hour workweeks and child labor laws arent socialism. Lots of residual Cold War era red-scare McCarthyism.

2) The Religious conservative. Not necessarily Christian, although they often do skew that way. Extremely old-world social values. The flavors of the day are LGBTQ and Abortion hate, but they've been around forever. Historically have cried "devilry" over rap music, metal, rock music, jazz, video games, violent movies, TV, magazines, books, fairy tales, those gosh darn horseless carriages, and the works of William Shakespeare. Often found pretending that the 50s were some sort of beacon of moral and sexual purity. Sometimes will claim that they "aren't AGAINST these things, they just don't want to see it" as their justification for quashing free speech, expression, etc.

3) The "Modern" conservative, so named because they've gotten a lot more popular lately. The Democrats are forming underground baby canabalism rings with Tom Hanks, and replacing people with clones grown in Nancy Pelosi's basement. They have a Jewish Space Laser they use to assassinate people with Covid, and secretly want to sell us all into Chinese slavery circuits. JFK Jr will return from the dead and declare himself president with Donald Trump as his God Emperor, and he'll be the 18th president because every election since the 1960s has been an illegitimate front run by the corporations. And they're dumping chemicals in the rivers to turn your kids trans and the freaking frogs gay. Lots of overlap with QAnon, but not necessarily 100%.

Overlaping trends: extreme distrust of power, degerence to hierarchies (ironic, as if the government is somehow less trustworthy than the ultra-wealthy), belief in something "bigger" than themselves that can't be understood (God, conspiracies, whatever), belief that things were better in the past, resistance to change, blaming modern problems on groups that have been "other'd."

Wow, this was quite descriptive. I don't want to jump to conclusions for obvious reasons, but the more I look into it, the more it feels like core aspects of being a Conservative involves just straight up being in unpleasant, unsympathetic person in some form or another.
I figured it had to be a bit more complex than that without it feeling so one-sided, but that seems to be the overwhelming consensus itt.

Hypocrisy, selfishness, xenophobia

"we should advocate what liberals advocate, but 10-20 years later"

lot of future election deniers in this thread

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Well there's one

Rebel_Patriot posted...

lot of future election deniers in this thread

are you a past presidential election denier?

You have the freedom to do what you want, unless it's something I personally don't like, which is everything except God and guns, and maybe beer

Rebel_Patriot posted...

lot of future election deniers in this thread

100% pure projection ITT

DoesntMatter posted...

100% pure projection ITT

The history books will say CE were the good guys

As soon as Roe v Wade was downed, was it DeSantis who immediately wanted his office/political party to formally/officially declare "homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice"? Or MTG, or the other crazy one, or the other other crazy one, or the one with sex abuse allegations against him, or the other other one with sexual abuse allegations against him...

The funny part is that, even if you don't agree with what I'm saying, you know which people I'm talking about. And that's saying something.

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Who is a trump supporter?

Kitt posted...

Wow, this was quite descriptive. I don't want to jump to conclusions for obvious reasons, but the more I look into it, the more it feels like core aspects of being a Conservative involves just straight up being in unpleasant, unsympathetic person in some form or another.
I figured it had to be a bit more complex than that without it feeling so one-sided, but that seems to be the overwhelming consensus itt.

Its not just being selfish but also being stupid. The only reason conservatives can win elections is because they convince so many people to vote against their own interests.

it depends on where you live, @kitt .

In the western world, at least the English speaking world and some other euro countries, modern conservatism can be defined as the school of thought where a group of people are protected by the state and legal system, but not necessarily bound by them, while another group of people ("the others") are not protected by the state and legal system, but they are bound by it.

For example, the MAGA wing of the republican party: the 'in' group are white, evangelical/baptist/protestant heterosexuals, with black, hispanic, middle eastern ,arab, and LGBTQ people being the most obvious 'the others' group of people.