I Am Not a Fan of Conservative People

Well, here's the thing.

I didn't grow up disliking conservatives. Hell, I used to live in North Dakota. People are super conservative up there and despite the fact that I'm a flaming liberal I was able to get on very well with them. I even grew fond of the people around me. They were old-fashioned but wonderful people with traditional family values. They were very welcoming people and were quick to treat newcomers like family.

But that's not who conservatives are anymore. Not the majority at least.

Today's conservatives are heavily bigoted, racist, xenophobic, neo-Nazis and misogynists. They are nothing like the conservative people I lived among in North Dakota a couple of years ago. Things have changed or maybe this election has unmasked them and showed the liberals like me who they really are and have been this entire time. I don't know. But as of now, I can no longer think of the world "conservatives" without feeling disgusted and hating what they have become.

I await the inevitable name-calling and put-downs now.

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Timb63 · 61-69, M

True conservatives are not any of those things, our base is constitutionalism. Giving federal gov 18 powers, anything else is up to each state, thus giving more power over social isues to the states, this allows the people more say in there government, like lbgt rites health care and much more. The founders new all to well giving such power to one federal gov. Would be abused. Now a country the size of the US with so many different regions . ways of life. Rural farming , manufacturing, tech, and much more. These different ways of life being governed by one mega power leads to regional bickering . Partisan grid lock. This would all be cured if federalism was working . This is not happening . Progressivism central government kills all chances of both liberalism and conservatism to truely be practiced at all. Conservativism is not republicanism. It just happens true conservitives though few run as republicans. Now nazie white Racists and such allign more with communist ideologies. Before just spouting political talking points. Look at there mission statements . Just what are there ideas . You will see conservative idologie does not allign with them at all. Conservatives DO NOT ! Agree with one thing those hating low lifes a-spouse to not one thing. But this wouldn’t make good political division. Under marxism exploitation divisions are 1st . Government take over of all Education health care , housing once thats done the people no longer control there lives. Federalism conservatism stands a direct opposite to that. We believe the power belongs to the states. This allows each state to do as it pleases with closer accountability to the people in there state.