00timh
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2011
- Messages
- 1,318
- Reaction score
- 516
- Location
- upstate NY
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
I'd be a libertarian conservative if it wasn't how quickly they can get distracted by weed. I am not even strong anti drug, although not really for it... but mention weed and any decent conversation suddenly goes up in smoke lol. I also feel they tend to go too far in isolationist foreign policy for my liking at times.I think there is plenty of conservatives that aren't wingnuts. The vast majority in office right now are of wing-nuttery land though mostly because they weild the flag of conservatism all while slipping into corporatism. So they go so far out of their way to bash people for not being conservative... like them... when they aren't even close to being one themselves.
I feel the same way about most dems in federal office in that they are slipping towards corporatism because they are chasing for the same campaign donors as the GOP now and it reflects in their policies more and more every year.
It's why I consider Libertarian conservatives sane and GOP "conservatives" a farcical joke akin to a lying insanity.
What the right-wing keeps bitching about "socialism" in our country is more of fascism where we tax the people and hand it off to corporations like... privatized prisons and stupid **** like that. I just dislike all the misnomer uses of "liberal" and "socialism". We are neither in this country. We are a corporatocracy.
I sadly agree that we our political machine has run aground with corporate dollars. The biggest difference now is who gets the goodies. As much as democrats cry to tax the wealthy, never have the wealthy been less taxed. Its not that I feel they should be taxed higher, but while crying for higher taxes, the dems are quietly slipping them a hall pass for taxes. The hypocrisy is sickening, just as all the faux conservatist babble, especially from people like Romney and most of the rest of the GOP leadership.