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What is a point of your political orientation you don't agree with at all?

By that I mean, if you, let's say, consider yourself or are considered a conservative, what is a point of conservative politics/ideologies you disagree with?
And for liberals as well, what is something you disagree with about liberal politics?

I've asked a similar question before about conservatives' most liberal- and liberals' most conservative viewpoints and although this one is slightly different, my answer will be the same:
I just don't understand why so many liberals, people who are all about equality, peace, freedom, women- and gay rights, etc. defend or even support an ideology like Islam, a religion that is basically against all of those things.
Now, before anyone comments something like "Not all Muslims"; dude, of course not all Muslims are equality- and freedom-hating terrorists, we'd be all dead by now if that was the case!
I do not have a problem with them personally, in fact, I know a lot of Muslims who really only want to live a peaceful life in freedom, but guess what? They shouldn't be supported because they're Muslims, they should be supported because they're [b]people[/b]!
I don't have a problem with them, I have a problem with the ideology they base their entire lives on and I refuse to defend and support [i]any[/i] ideology that encourages hatred and the killing of certain kinds of people.

Guess what, I've been called a hypocrite, a racist (even though religions aren't races) and even a Nazi for having this opinion while apart from that I really am a liberal, a leftist even. 🙄😥
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Sounds like you're thinking logically and trying to make sense of things.

Labels like liberal and conservative rarely describe real people well. At best they're generalizations, and at worst, they're used these days as a way to lump together people into handy catagories for criticism and demonization.

A generation ago, a lot of people said they were fiscal conservatives or social conservatives, for example. Nowadays, though, we call people who don't buy all of the platform "fake conservatives," RINOs, and to some degree the same things happen on the left.

Political parties are supposed to be people who agree on certain issues, but not necessarily all issues. We're having a crisis right now, in part, because the moderates, i.e., the people who can see multiple sides to issues and don't always think in terms of right or wrong, or worse, of us and them, are being treated more as traitors and enemies.

Just my thoughts.