• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago
    • You shouldn’t ban particular speech or books
    • Gay people should be able to marry
    • You shouldn’t ban factory farmed meat
    • You shouldn’t ban abortions
    • You shouldn’t dump trillions of new dollars into the economy and forcibly shut down every business in America
    • Saudi Arabia is a rights-violating shithole that we should not interact with even if it seems profitable in the near term
    • An adult human should have the right to ingest any drug they want

    Those are positions I consider conservative, and hold myself, that aren’t reflected in current Republican policy.

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      11 months ago

      Those are positions I consider conservative, and hold myself, that aren’t reflected in current Republican policy.

      None of those are specific to conservatism, and I would say some of the opposites of those position, like opposition to gay marriage and abortion, has historically always been part of conservatism.

      More interestingly would be to learn what specific conservative policies you subscribe to. Policies which you don’t think exists in other ideologies.

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        11 months ago

        like opposition to gay marriage and abortion, has historically always been part of conservatism

        Speaking for the poster, probably incorrectly, but while I consider myself liberal, and have long been a support of gay rights and marriage, I always laughed when I was defending it (like early 2000) because I was always making the conservative argument that the government shouldn’t be regulating which two consenting adults can join a contract with each other.

        Classically speaking, it’s a politically conservative position. It’s just that republicans, who pretend to be conservatives, also tend to be religious and let those beliefs often influence what they claim is the conservative position.

        But the state staying out of who gets married is, no doubt, an actual politically conservative position.