The people who claim to be conservative,when they're in power they spend the people money like crazy . Just my opinion,what's your opinion?
The people who claim to be conservative,when they're in power they spend the people money like crazy . Just my opinion,what's your opinion?
The people who claim to be conservative,when they're in power they spend the people money like crazy . Just my opinion,what's your opinion?
The people who claim to be conservative,when they're in power they spend the people money like crazy . Just my opinion,what's your opinion?
Oh boy, that question can take days to answer.
For one thing, it depends on which meaning of 'conservative' you want: politically, socially, economically, psychologically...and then there's different meanings for different times. For instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, 'socially conservative' could mean that you were against civil rights for blacks and women's suffrage, whereas one could be against civil rights for blacks but FOR women's suffrage...which meant in the context of the day that you were some kind of bleeding-heart liberal hiding under your wife's skirts.
BUT politically speaking, there were conservatives and liberals in both major parties for almost all of America's history...but things began to change in the wake of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" (google it) was used to attract the "negrophobes" in the South who were angry with the Democrats for passing the CRA (which could not have passed in the first place if it had not been for liberals in the GOP, strangely enough)...and so the South went from being a Democratic stronghold to the GOP base that it is today. It was that politically-seismic shift that slowly made liberals unwelcome in the GOP...and as a reaction, conservatives - "Blue-Dog Democrats" - have been slowly pushed out of the Democratic party...
...so now for the first time in American history, our two major parties are split not just by party, but also by (to some extent) personality.
But there's more to it than that, actually. There's a growing body of evidence that there is at least some biological basis as to whether one is liberal or conservative. I wrote about it in 2011, where I linked to research that found that the bigger a person's amygdala (the fear-sensing fight-or-flight section of the brain) is, the more likely one is to be conservative. That, and another study showed that the more easily one felt the emotion of disgust, the more likely one is to be conservative.
And what really sucks is that in my experience with presenting all this is that conservatives hate to hear about it...I've yet to see an avowed conservative look at any of it with anything other than disdain...or disgust.
The people who claim to be conservative,when they're in power they spend the people money like crazy . Just my opinion,what's your opinion?
The people who claim to be conservative,when they're in power they spend the people money like crazy . Just my opinion,what's your opinion?
Most "conservatives" that I know are anything but Conservative. Most not only want big government they want HUGE government dictating what people can and cannot do in their personal lives. Many claim to be "fiscally conservative" but usually those are only fiscally conservative when it comes to government spending money that helps children and people living in poverty, they have no problem with the government writing huge checks to pay for inflated military budgets. They love handing out billions of dollars to oil companies and other huge corporations. They generally want tax cuts for the wealthy...but claim tax cuts for the middle/working class are wealth redistribution. So in answer to the OP question, I would have to say emphatically no.
you'll never come up with a good answer when the premise relies entirely on "liberal" and "conservative" being mutually exclusive.
Did you happen to see the point where I said that 'conservative' and 'liberal' had different meanings at different times? To wit:
"For one thing, it depends on which meaning of 'conservative' you want: politically, socially, economically, psychologically...and then there's different meanings for different times. For instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, 'socially conservative' could mean that you were against civil rights for blacks and women's suffrage, whereas one could be against civil rights for blacks but FOR women's suffrage...which meant in the context of the day that you were some kind of bleeding-heart liberal hiding under your wife's skirts."