What makes someone a “Conservative”?

[EMH]

Being a conservative is supporting death penalty?

It actually is conservative. It costs upwards of $100k per year to keep a prisoner in prison.

 

[EMH]

Conservatives just know the proper place of government. The free market is more efficient at helping those in need.

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This is freedom, capitalism, and personal choice over government spending, all conservative, and yes many of the actual conservatives are very generous with donations to causes they care about.


I don't want to call Mike Dell a "conservative" because I don't know his views that well, but he ponied up billions of his own money to help America's future kids recently.

 

[EMH]

The next great conservative cause, making it a RIGHT for every American child to have a homosexual free childhood.

Thread 'Poll - Should America's children have the right to a "homosexual free childhood" through age 15?'

Apr 20, 2026

This is really out of control. School should be about math, reading, writing, science, and art, sports and music. It should not be about homosexuality.


The first step for this cause is to have a legally declared right of all of America's parents to CHOOSE to have their child grow up without homosexuality, none in the schools, on the TV, in the books, no homosexuals trying to "reproduce" by homosexually raping kids at a young age, the real "cause" of homosexuality, which is not genetic, and they know it. Homosexuals are getting to America's kids and that's why so many are now...

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[EMH]

What makes someone a “Conservative”?​

Basically an indifference to the suffering of others.
A feeling of….I got mine, the hell with everyone else.

The "only solution" is to elect Democrats to raise taxes, spend money because "they care" to NGOs where the meritless Dem activists skim off all the money for themselves and then scream that the spending is "not enough." And VA just tried to make it illegal to INVESTIGATE that Dem scam....

 

[rightwinger]

What stops everyone else from getting theirs? Bob Kraft is a conservative and he donates millions to charity. Michael Dell donates billions. Not sure your definition is spot on but thank you for sharing.

What stops everyone else from getting theirs?
My father had a HS education and got a union job.
He was able to support a family of six on just one salary.
He sent four kids to college without going into debt. He had good healthcare, bought a three bedroom house, we took vacations and he retired at 62.

What changed?
We listened to Conservatives and embraced Supply Side Economics. Give money to the wealthy and prosperity will trickle down in good paying jobs.
Instead, pay went stagnant, benefits decreased, families needed two wage earners

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

What stops everyone else from getting theirs?
My father had a HS education and got a union job.
He was able to support a family of six on just one salary.
He sent four kids to college without going into debt. He had good healthcare, bought a three bedroom house, we took vacations and he retired at 62.

What changed?
We listened to Conservatives and embraced Supply Side Economics. Give money to the wealthy and prosperity will trickle down in good paying jobs.
Instead, pay went stagnant, benefits decreased, families needed two wage earners

Well colleges are mostly run by Liberals and state schools in blue states are very expensive. How is that on conservatives? Blue cities like NYC, San Fran, LA, Boston are largely unaffordable. How is that the fault of conservatives? Your dad retired at 62 likely due to a full pension. Those are few and far between now. How is that the fault of conservatives? There are plenty of rich and selfish liberals out there. They maybe virtue signal better?

 

[lg325]

I recommend this book for those with a real interest.

 

[citygator]

Fear.

 

[22lcidw]

What makes someone a “Conservative”?​

Basically an indifference to the suffering of others.
A feeling of….I got mine, the hell with everyone else.

Lead the way and pay more been if your middle class. You will not. You just talk. Adn then force all to pay when elected to power.

 

[1srelluc]

What makes someone a “Conservative”?​

Basically an indifference to the suffering of others.
A feeling of….I got mine, the hell with everyone else.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[rightwinger]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Winner, winner, Chicken Dinner!

Conservatives just don’t care about others

 

[1srelluc]

Winner, winner, Chicken Dinner!

Conservatives just don’t care about others

Well maybe if those "others" I'm already paying for would get off their dead asses and come by and mow my lawn I'd be a bit more understanding.

 

[rightwinger]

Well colleges are mostly run by Liberals and state schools in blue states are very expensive. How is that on conservatives? Blue cities like NYC, San Fran, LA, Boston are largely unaffordable. How is that the fault of conservatives? Your dad retired at 62 likely due to a full pension. Those are few and far between now. How is that the fault of conservatives? There are plenty of rich and selfish liberals out there. They maybe virtue signal better?

What happened to colleges is that Conservatives cut back subsidies and forced more of the bill onto the students.

I went to college in the mid 70s and I paid $650 for a years tuition. I was able to pay my tuition by working a $2 an hour job over the summer.

But that was with a large amount of state aid.
Conservatives have cut back on aid and frozen minimum wage

 

[rightwinger]

Your dad retired at 62 likely due to a full pension. Those are few and far between now. How is that the fault of conservatives?

Conservatives killed union jobs and pensions
They cut back on healthcare, increased the cost of an education

 

[j-mac]

November is coming.

It is....and it may not turn out the way you think....

 

[j-mac]

Conservatives killed union jobs and pensions
They cut back on healthcare, increased the cost of an education

Unions killed themselves by being corrupt org's....

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

What happened to colleges is that Conservatives cut back subsidies and forced more of the bill onto the students.

I went to college in the mid 70s and I paid $650 for a years tuition. I was able to pay my tuition by working a $2 an hour job over the summer.

But that was with a large amount of state aid.
Conservatives have cut back on aid and frozen minimum wage

How? MA is 100% blue. UMASS is way more expensive than the university of South Carolina. How do you explain that?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Conservatives killed union jobs and pensions
They cut back on healthcare, increased the cost of an education

None of that is factual. Literally zero. Conservatives support free markets versus handouts. Colleges are more expensive because so much govt debt is out there. Supply/Demand

 

[rightwinger]

Unions killed themselves by being corrupt org's....

Spoken like a true Conservative
Spread lies and misinformation to justify your attacks on the middle class

The reality is that unions demanded more profits go to the workers, that benefits be protected, that worker safety be a priority, that unfair labor practices be stopped.

 

[Darkwind]

What stops everyone else from getting theirs?
My father had a HS education and got a union job.
He was able to support a family of six on just one salary.
He sent four kids to college without going into debt. He had good healthcare, bought a three bedroom house, we took vacations and he retired at 62.

... and then the liberals became convinced that government was the answer to everything and the price of living when up so high that people now complain about raising families on a single salary.

You can't make this shit up.