What era in time do these people think R’s are trying to conserve to, after or before civil rights?
doing this will only push me and other people like me out!
That’s the point. Next, to the camps for you.
This asshole will be trying to explain to the guards that he voted for Trump and not like these groomers as he’s loaded onto the next bus headed for the camps.
If America isn’t stuck in their own Orwellian version of language suppression (Americans only think with binary terms “liberal/Democrats” and “conservative/Republicans”) and have a multiparty ranked choice voting, the person screenshoted would be able to articulate his thoughts and say he is a conservative supporting the centre right party that is the Democratic Party. I met people from different countries who are gay, but have no problem identifying as conservative or right.
Its Regression not conservatism. Quit calling it that. There is nothing wrong with a conservative outlook. The maga don’t have a conservative outlook. They have a regressive one.
Real question, how can someone be conservative while still supporting progress? Doesn’t the entire ideology hinge on things never changing?
Conservatism is as broad of a term as liberalism. That said, there is a brand of conservatism that do support progress, but wants to do so in an incrementalist way, which is basically the Democratic Party now that I think about it.
If someone becomes a conservative in 1995, they want to conserve the current state of society, no? Since society has progressed to a different state in those 30 years, does that not mean this person would want to regress back to the 1995 version? Conservativism is just delayed regressivism.
There is nothing wrong with a conservative outlook.
When you’re living in comfort and you benefit from the status quo and you prize stability over the perceived benefits of change, there’s an argument for a conservative outlook.
But I’ve been living under Conservative governance in my home state of Texas for forty years. The pattern of police enforced racial castes, privatization of public institutions, and ecologically unsustainable consumption has been ongoing for my entire life. This is what conservatives are fighting to defend. Misogyny. Supremacy. Homogeneity. A wild imbalance in economic opportunity. Its too late to try and rebrand this as “bad” conservatism.
Trump’s policies are more extreme than what came before, but the impulses remain the same. It is the composition of American elites that has changed.
The maga don’t have a conservative outlook.
The Red Hats are the children of Goldwater/Reagan and they are shepherding Paleoconservative Libertarianism to its logical end game. They were raised to believe in Galt’s Gulch and Friedman’s free market fetishism. They were raised to believe in Evangelical Christianity and Christian Dominionism. They were raised to believe in winning the Cold War at all costs.
And what they’re doing has plenty of historic parallels - from Nixon’s War on Crime to Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback to McKinley’s Jim Crow. They’re White Nationalists embracing White Nationalism, on the belief that the Peace Dividend they reaped in the 90s was a Heavenly Mandate to Do As Thou Wilt. If you carve off all the QAnon cultism and bigotry, what you’ve got are a bunch of Gen X and Y folks who are fighting to preserve the segregation and the implicit international hegemony they enjoyed when the Iron Curtain fell and America was the uncontested global superpower.
It is conservatism in root and branch. A philosophy flailing in the face of a diminished empire to preserve the icons of prosperity their elders once enjoyed.
They don’t know they’re the same picture
I wonder if Jordan Ramsey is good at cooking.
whats funny to me is this guy is gay and is openly admitting to being pro life and in favor of the 2nd amendment. making him fully 100% liberal. yet he doesn’t like liberals lmao. it always amazes me that people don’t know the literal definition of what a liberal is.
Wouldn’t a liberal be pro choice ?
generally yes…but a liberal has the freedom to be open about whatever they want. they aren’t forced to feel one way or the other. Like. “if you are pro choice then you will go to jail” and someone saying “im pro life because i dont want to go to jail” that is not being liberal, that is following a structure
Hard r voters when they realise where their party wants to go back to
“When i vote R, i didn’t think” sums it up nicely.
Same sex marriage was such a good example of democracy working. MA stood alone, defiant and proud, for years. Then some of the neighboring states went “You know what? They didn’t get smote with fire and brimstone. Maybe I can do that too.”
Only 10 years after Massachusetts took the first step, it was growing past the recently blue states as voters came around to accepting it, and if it had another 5 years, we would’ve been taking would-be holdouts like Texas.
That process was cut short, but I haven’t seen any polling that suggests we’re not still collectively sliding that direction, so even if the supreme court reverses Obergefell v. Hodges, I don’t think there’s popular support for bans this time.
But they already exist. My state constitution has a prohibition on recognition of gay marriages. These laws won’t stay nullified and have to be reestablished. And much like we see with abortion they’re going to next go for a nationwide ban.
Oh hey I’ve met these guys. They’re not well liked by their fellow gays
They’re not well liked.
I think that probably would’ve sufficed. Even the Republicans shun gay Republicans because they don’t want them to exist. Gay Republicans are like the most baffling thing to me. Like a Jewish Nazi.
There were always Jewish Nazis, or at least enablers. They’re called Kapo, which is one of the most insulting words a Jew can call another. When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, the prisoners turned on the Kapos, and lynched 170 of them on the spot.
One of HitlerPig’s closest and most loyal advisors is one: Kapo Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller.
Perhaps we should extend the meaning to include gay Republicans, or at least gay MAGAs.
Gay people can be gullible and naive too. Nobody said they were perfect.
im glad the republican party stuck to it’s roots-punishing the slavers, racial equality, and being lead by a bisexual wrestler who flirts and jokes with karl marx in his free time. the past 160 or so years could’ve been pretty rough if they hadn’t.
They claimed to accept black people way before you, and they didn’t (look at the sieg heils and white supremacy claims). They only pretended to accept gay people recently, and you thought this was serious?
Time to break out ol’ trusty.
“It’s not the same republican party it used to be, get over it!”
It has always been that party, idiot.
What a ridiculous level of privilege coming from this completely oblivious meal for the leopards
This will be the first guy to leave Republicans for being anti-gay. Alone in a sea of sieg-heiling nazis that shaved their heads because of feminist criticism of videogames.
