first time seeing this community. I think it’s really funny there are at least 2 conservative communities on Lemmy and neither of them are safe spaces for conservatives 😂
I saw nothing but disrespect and division coming from the other conservative comms I found when I started using Lemmy. I created this comm because none of them came close to representing me. This will not be a safe place for MAGA.
oh wait are you self identified conservatives here? is it sad that I didn’t know you were because you weren’t dick riding the clown?
cheers, man. the rest of the world misses those of you who are sane. whatever our differences are I would kill to have the old conservatives back
I regret what my party has become. Watching it eat itself in fear that freedom might mean people will do things you don’t like makes my blood boil.
I’m not sure what label really covers the bases of what I believe. I want a lot of the things Democrats want but I want them implemented differently. At the end of the day I think I fall on the red side of the spectrum. I hope someday that when people think “conservative” they stop thinking of red hats, slipping civil rights, and weaponized ignorance.
In nearly half a century of life on this planet, conservatives have ALWAYS been associated with denying civil rights and weaponizing ignorance. The only difference I’ve seen between modern conservatives and historical conservatives are a shiny new red hat.
I certainly didn’t come to be a part of the GOP because I liked the people.
So, if these are the ways they have always been, and you don’t agree with it, how did you come to be a part of it? How did you look at a group of people you admit you do not like and decide that that’s the group you want to be a part of?
I believe in small government. I want to see individual industries (health, tech, food, etc) self regulate. This would divide the power among the experts. Experts who are ideally data-driven.
Democrats, to my understanding, want to centralize a lot of the power in the government. They don’t say it that way, they say they want healthcare, worker’s rights, and green climate efforts and use the government as a catch all for the responsibility. Putting it all in one basket, I say, is the backbone to a lot of the corruption.
A slower legislation that worked with trusted experts to govern us comes off more conservative than progressive in my eyes.
well, keep the candle on. the part of me that wants to believe the right can be deradicalized knows that in order for that to happen, they’ll need an ideological space to land that isn’t a full leftist awakening. pre-2014 meth-binge conservativism would probably feel familiar and safe enough to actually allow that to happen
Imo, your identification as a conservative is more of a tribal reaction than an ideological one. Not saying it’s a bad thing - but it might be that you could re-examine what label you apply to yourself with a greater amount of detatchment from the general thought-space you inhabit. I like a lot of the things I hear some conservative people saying, but I still recognize that I am much more blue tribe than red tribe.
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Ok, what you conservin?
At this point? Our nation’s dignity.
Midterns can not come soon enough
Midterms aren’t going to change anything. They’ve rigged it to high-hell and any losses will be challenged heavily with appeals courts stacked in their favor.
Anybody, stateside or otherwise, that thinks this situation is recoverable via voting or peaceful protests is a fucking idiot.
Funny how few GOP leaders have town halls any more. I cannot imagine why?
The chair of the House GOP’s campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Find all the resources for that take, as you like. Plenty more out there.
can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen snowflake.
“Paid troublemakers”? Clearly not licensed lobbyists. lol It’s only OK when we do it.
