What do conservatives believe in?

They are not “conservatives” in the traditional sense, They are radicals. The are an alliance of white supremacists, Christian Nationalists and billionaire oligarchs who believe in what that brings them power. The closest model and best label is “fascist,” but the Christian Nationalist elements make them more like the Islamo-fascists in Iran than the Nazis.

What's good for black people is bad for me.

Hating anyone who isn't them.

What they say they believe in is limited government, individual freedom and responsibility, traditional values, strong national defense and the rule of law.

What they really believe in is power at all costs.

They believe whatever the bigot du jour tells them to believe at any given moment.

Their beliefs seem to be based on only white men having power.

Everything else must be debated, especially equal rights for minorities, including gays

They are not CONSERVATIVES. Dwight Eisenhower was a CONSERVATIVE. They are fuckin FASCHISTS. Until the media and dolts like OP start calling a spade a spade we will never defeat them.

At this point, “own the libs” is their only stance, no matter how unpopular the policies are.

American rightwingers (not “conservatives”). Aren’t for anything. Well, except the second amendment.

Fox News has made very sure there are a lot of things they’re against, though.

Liberals

People of color

LGBTQ+

Immigrants

They will reliably vote AGAINST any such candidate, even if the person they’re voting for will hurt them.

The only difference between compassionate conservatism and conservatism is that under compassionate conservatism they tell you they're not going to help you but they're really sorry about it.

No abortion No contraception No rights for black people No rights for gays

Supply side economics

My neighbors say (basically) those who have anything to lose tend to favor fiscally conservative policies. They feel they worked hard to find their way, buy homes, grow their assets. Those with money in the market right now are quietly watching their portfolios ticking up in value, but also many feel that the economy is like an overheated engine that could falter. Even my more conservative friends disavow xenophobia, and anti-Vaxers

Christian nationalism, fundamentalism, statism, and right-wing authoritarianism.

What do conservatives believe in?

Basically three things:

1. HATE

2. HATE

3. MONEY

They believe Melanie is the best, most effective First Lady ever

And don't forget the most elegant, r16!

Common sense.

Only THEMSELVES

Cunts

Traditional (and true) conservatives believed in free trade, respect for precedent, change should be incremental and not radical.

MAGA is an illiberal ideology grounded in grievance and identity.

R21 says the culty Royalass prisspot.

Owning the libs.

Trolling 24/7.

Making the average American's life worse.

Watching poor people die from disease.

Involuntary lethal injections for homeless people.

Severely restricted speech with extreme consequences for violators.

Guns everywhere.

Dead school kids daily.

An America where all of you are either dead, dying of AIDS, thrown into the paddy wagon, and/or locked up in mental institutions. Remember you are not just a homosexual. You are part of the Communist agenda.

If you look at the very term - conservatism and conserve - means they are against change and progress. Why? Because they feel that traditional old ways were good - but fail to realize it wasn't good for EVERYONE.

It's a very easy path to fight against change. It's dismissive - well, it has worked well for this long. It's also wanting to please people and put your head in the sand.

Nothing has ever progressed under conservative rule or traditions. Nothing.

We are an evolving species - like everything, including your relationships, your material items - they need review. Are they still working? If not, what can we alter?

Conservative mindset is basically stuck in this belief that any change is bad - except if it is for the change that THEY want - which is usually regressive or for corporate interests.

Arguably, it can be said that the conservatives work as a balance against liberal thought as a checks and balance so that things can progress in a way that it palatable and doesn't turn things upside down.

Ok - but at the same time, what has conservatives ever looked at to change things for ALL people's lives? I'm willing to listen. But I can't recall a single thing - outside of their airy-fairy economics that has shown time and time again to push money and economic growth to the upper 1%.

Today's so-called "conservatives" believe that straight, white, wealthy, "Christian" men are owed all power at all levels of local, state, and federal government. And that they should use that power to exert maximum cruelty and oppression on everyone else outside of their very exclusive demographic. That's it. That is the sum total of their belief system.

They absolutely do [bold]NOT[/bold] believe in:

-- Democracy;

-- Equal rights for women / LGBTQ+ / POC;

-- Opportunity and any form of state-subsidized support for the less fortunate;

-- Respect for different opinions / perspectives / experiences;

-- Robust foreign policy that respects the agendas of any allied nations;

-- Immigration and pathways to citizenship for migrants of brown / black countries;

-- Any manner of civil rights and a right to live peacefully for anyone unlike them;

-- The value of a well-educated populace.

They would bring back slavery if they could. In fact, one of their current malicious efforts is to minimize if not erase our historical learnings of slavery.

OP go watch One Battle After Another. It answers your question.

Liberals come in with ideas that seem best to help people, conservatives come in with a binder full of pre rehearsed talking points to distract people.

Being Christofascist bigots and excusing it with religion.

Fuck their “religion”

Democrats aren’t liberal and Conservatives are not Republican. That’s part of the problem . Over simplification, the brain loves the simple. Massive inequality that’s the problem.

R31 then why do all Republicans have Conservative Republican in their bios on Facebook?

Sanity

R32 is using textbook definitions of Republican in a broader political stance - not in what has become US Republican party.

They have.no idea what they stand for until Trump tells them. Was annexing Canada a conservative principle last year? No. Was being insanely protectionist a core Republican principle ten years ago? No. There's no ideological coherence. If you told.the average Republican these policies years ago and that Obama supported them, they would be vehemently denouncing them.

White power is where it begins and ends.

Racism for sure

They turned liberal into a dirty word through namecalling and lies.

They've turned conservative into a dirty word by who they are

The conserving of brain cells through atrophy.

They believe in caveman tribalism. Them and their familiar in-group ought to have reign to do as they please while everyone else, the immoral and inferior barbarians, ought to be bound and suppressed.

Nazi-ism. Conservatism was a front.

Conservatism is a mental illness.

They want genocide of the poor and minorities. Everything else is just a talking point, easily discarded when conditions make it untenable.

They used to pretend they were "fiscal conservatives" but Regan t ripled the national debt, Bush II doubled it again, and Trump has sent it to the moon and back.

They used to pretend they wanted to control the money su pply, but when those numbers showed that Bush II's "growth" was really inflation, they stopped reporting them.

They want less business regulattion, except they want to control who businesses hire and promote.

They say they are for America First but they wish to start wars all over the wrold.

They say they want religious freedom, but only for evangelicals not anyone else

In short, everything they claim to believe in is a lie. Except for genocide of the poor and minorities. and Feudal wealth for rich families.

Money. They think by glomming onto the rich jocks they'll get some of the loot.

Conservatives are backwards.

If they actually read the New Testament and followed the things Jesus said, they would be a group more radical than any socialist or communist. Jesus was anti-wealth and believed in sharing and uplifting the poor and outcast. His followers abolished their private property and lived communally.

They don’t live by or believe in anything he said himself in the Bible. “Sell all your own, give to the poor”, “blessed are the poor, woe are the rich”, Cancel all debts, free slaves, return land!

You can’t think AOC and Bernie are lunatics and claim to worship Jesus and his message.

So you can’t take anything they say seriously. It just all goes out of the window for me.

Conservatives are like wild dogs running in a pack. They lick the muzzles of their pack leaders and work together in taking down prey.

I didn’t answer OP’s question but Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA was created to combat progressive ideology on campuses.

I don’t think conservatives want to spread ideas, they want to combat ideas. Ideas are bad and harmful in their minds.

They’re for whatever causes the most pain to the most people.

[quote] Money. They think by glomming onto the rich jocks they'll get some of the loot.

Honestly, I don't think it's even that calculating, well for most of them. It's a true love and admiration and sometimes even worship of money. The people who have it must be special in some way, and probably smarter, and they both deserve more and should probably be running this place to the extent possible. Even if a lot of them will be running it selfishly, that's okay. They'll take their cut but they'll somehow make it better for the rest of us. Cause they magically know what they're doing in most ways.

They believe they're the top of the food chain or should be, and laws and customs should reflect that. Republican Jesus is white and good and teaches poor, ethnic, unknowing children an important lesson about how their shitty customs and lazy relatives need to work harder and stay out of trouble.

Republicans believe that women are women and men are men.

Au Contraire R52. They believe women are sheep and men are chimpanzees. They claim to stand for law and order and "personal responsibility" but they have created the most corrupt class in American history, shading the Credit Mobilier crowd of 1873 with their incessant stealing.

They believe in big, fake, store bought titties, lots of fillers, and giving hand jobs and oral at fourteen.

You know, babies - these assholes are neither Republican, nor Conservative. No. These fuckers are something else, entirely, rendering their perpetual shit storm in a way this nation has never experienced before.

I give you GOP Jesus, y'all...

I was banned for 2 days after posting R42.

New ban in 3... 2...

I'm guessing you were targeted long before that post r56. It's hardly the most offensive thing (rightly) said about conservatives.

Now I'll be joining you in the penalty box.

Me. And Jesus because he supports Me.;