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> But that doesn't mean that conservatism in general is a bad idea.

It's crazy to me that conservatism has become a dirty word. And I wasn't immune to that either when I was younger. It's only as I've matured that I realized what the word actually means and that conservatism is actually the center on the reactionary-conservative-progressive axis. I also learned that progressivism is mainly ideologies driven from academic circles who consider themselves an intellectual elite that should decide where society is headed and that those circles have been catastrophically wrong in the past with things like eugenics and communism.

>>somedu+(OP)
In my experience, conservatism means tax cuts for the wealthy and whatever it takes to sell them. "Family values" were the sales pitch when I was a kid and they could use that against a president who liked to diddle the interns. Nowadays, they seem to be taking a different direction since the leader of their party is a genital-grabbing philanderer, but he did get them their tax cuts.

>>hotpot+T
You're equating conservatism with the US republican party.

I've often thought that if I moved to the US I'd have no-one to vote for. Both sides seem to have some insane, out there policy.

>>throwa+A2
Yeah conservatism as in tax cuts for the middle class and poor and less government services as a result is not a policy in the US lol

>>Shawnj+zr
I'm talking about the social policy.

Simplified, republicans seem to have an issue with abortion. Democrats seem to think there are eleven genders.

Both just seem super out there to me as a Brit.

Financial policies aren't really something I care about to the same degree.

>>throwa+9J
I will say that the left leaning social policy in the US seemed silly to me at first until I became better friends with people who are in those groups and a bit of it is still silly but it does make a lot more sense from their perspective.