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It also needs to be noted that a lot of "conservatism" is straight up fascism, mask on and mask off. If you undermine social programs while shouting about how you are protecting kids and families, you are conserving jack shit.
Right? There is a lack of values held dearly by most conservativesband just the ideas of morality they end up selling without putting in effort for it.
I actually agree we probably need a limit to imported items and imported labor because Democrats actually use both as a way to undercut the American lower working classes and keep wages low but I don't see a Republican ever running on actually that without secretly under the table also hiring immigrant labor and not doing anything real in office.
Politics has become about grandstanding and then changing nothing to protect an economic system that made both sides rich except one side enjoys hitting people they view as "not the good ones" which means not white Christian Male.
Democrats favor increasing the minimum wage and are supported by most unions, so your statement doesn't make sense. Democrats passed the "Inflation Reduction Act" added funds for the IRS to tax rich people and allows Medicare to reduce costs for expensive drugs.
Reducing America's access to international markets will probably cause a minor recession. Just raising the minimum wage will help more directly.
Raising the minimum wage does nothing to bring back labor to the country where we see large amounts of service sector jobs we deemed as good work just a decade ago being moved overseas to areas like panama, South Africa, and Philippines.
The transportation of goods such long distances as well also causes huge pollution and cost issues with transportation costs and logistics being a nightmare to touch.
Yes I understand that a shoring up of global economics would likely cause issues but it doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Democrats are the better party for sure but the neo-liberalism and focus on imported labor and goods is absolutely directly hurting the lower class Americans. So unless we can generate a huge increase in service jobs while increasing the pay and the amount the ultra wealthy pay towards it without impacting the lower and middle classes we need to have some push to labor as a backup.
Yeah because wanting to pay less taxes, or not wanting overly burdensome restrictions is purely fascism and you definitely isn't conserving a bank account balance.
They are fucking morons but it's insane to me how you people make up these stories calling them all racists or fascists because they want to be left alone and not deal with people forcing safety on them, taking more money from their pay check, or forcing healthcare on them.
Because those sound bites don't actually decrease costs to the average family, which therefore is an increase in their financial burden.
Also, please tell me how conservative policies like "restricting books with certain topics" and "not allowing same-sex marriage" is getting rid of "overly burdensome restrictions".
I already said they were dumb. That doesn't make them a Nazi.
But what you've essentially done is mentally aggregated the worst of the party as official head cannon. Being generous, less than half self identified GOP voters support book bans.
As for the rest of your cherry picking, it is incredibly easy to find pages and pages of ineffective gun policy, banning sugary drinks transfats and food, forcing shit like life jackets on fully functioning adults, vice taxes, gambling, etc
tfw you don't know the difference between "most" and "all"
Exactly! Most GOPers don't support book bans.
they do when they Vote for the GOP, you can't vote for Fascists and then claim, "yeah but I don't agree with them"
In a two party system? Sure you can. There are plenty of regressive LGBT, financial, and corporate policy supported by the DNC and you still are going to vote for them every year. For years Democrats hated LGBT groups, supported the war in Iraq, refused to raise taxes on high earners (to this day really), support bans on encryption, and have eroded privacy.
You've voted for them. Every. Single. Time.
And if you were one of the few who went third party, your vote had had zero effect whatsoever.