What Is The Difference Between Republican and Conservative? (NAFTA, health care, military)
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What Is The Difference Between Republican and Conservative?
A conservative is someone who thinks that society is better off if government remains small and limited, having little to do with people's everyday affairs.
A Republican is someone who joined the Republican party. This includes a lot of liberals who left the Democrat party as it moved farther and farther left, and joined the Republican party instead, which was moving only moderately left.
The Republican party used to be majority-conservative. Now they are maybe 20%, and have less and less to do with conservatism every year.
This is the kind of rampant confusion you get when a liberal tries to tell anyone what conservatives are.
Whether or not it is true is one thing. That it seems like that based on how those in Washington and those who freely consider themselves conservatives is another.
What Is The Difference Between Republican and Conservative?
A conservative is someone who thinks that society is better off if government remains small and limited, having little to do with people's everyday affairs.
A Republican is someone who joined the Republican party. This includes a lot of liberals who left the Democrat party as it moved farther and farther left, and joined the Republican party instead, which was moving only moderately left.
The Republican party used to be majority-conservative. Now they are maybe 20%, and have less and less to do with conservatism every year.
Honestly, I think you are over-stating liberals who left the Democratic party for the Republican party. I don't think they did and rather became an independent like myself.
I know people call them RINOs but I would call them Neo-Cons instead. They still believe in big central government and generally act like progressives but advocate for their own 'special interests'. Yes, the Republican party has been trying to purge them from the party due to the damage they have caused our party.
"Neo-Con" is a misnomer since it implies that they are conservative. As they demonstrated when Bush (43) was President, they were anything but fiscally conservative, running up deficits for six years. Which is why many of them were purged in 2006 and 2008.
While the Republican base has done a fairly good job at removing these Democrat pretenders from the GOP, there is still more work to be done.
"Neo-Con" is a misnomer since it implies that they are conservative. As they demonstrated when Bush (43) was President, they were anything but fiscally conservative, running up deficits for six years. Which is why many of them were purged in 2006 and 2008.
While the Republican base has done a fairly good job at removing these Democrat pretenders from the GOP, there is still more work to be done.
But their philosophies are generally deemed Neo-Cons. I think it becomes a matter of semantics if we call them RINOs or Neo-Cons though. One thing is true. When people point to them and say 'that person is no conservative' and try and act like they represent the majority of the Republican party, they are both right and wrong. They're right in that they are NOT conservatives but wrong in trying to say they represent the majority of the Republican party.
I heard this idea in another thread and I wonder what is the difference Republican and Conservative. I understand Republican is a political party and Conservative is a political philosophy. But we see a huge cross-section between the two. A good number of Republicans are indeed Conservative. Those who aren't (and even less conservative people) gets the RINO (Republican In Name Only) title.
To me, the difference is just as I said is the difference between a political party and a political philosophy
About the same difference between a murderer and an assassin, in other words, as a practical matter, none.
Both assassins and murderers leave a dead body or dead bodies.
The bottom line is people are dead and the reason/s are irrelevant.
Republicans and conservatives want to take us back to the "good old days", when minorities, women, and the differently sexually oriented had few or no rights.
The bottom line is people will be disenfranchised and the reason/s are irrelevant.
About the same difference between a murderer and an assassin, in other words, as a practical matter, none.
Both assassins and murderers leave a dead body or dead bodies.
The bottom line is people are dead and the reason/s are irrelevant.
Republicans and conservatives want to take us back to the "good old days", when minorities, women, and the differently sexually oriented had few or no rights.
The bottom line is people will be disenfranchised and the reason/s are irrelevant.
That's an awfully myopic opinion on conservatives that flies in the face of everything conservatives stand for. We advocate personal responsibility (that's not hateful). We advocate less centrally controlled government which often acts as a burden on the citizens (that's not hateful). We advocate less onerous regulations on businesses that hurt the economy and the working population (that's not hateful). I think your definition of conservatives is something you've pulled out of your mind that in no way, shape, or form represents the ideology. As an aside, how do you go through life thinking such thoughts about your fellow citizens? That much anger can't be healthy.
conservatives don't care about personal responsibility it is a meaningless talking point meant to say we don't want the government helping people we hate who we will than label a lacking personal responsibility because the government is helping them.
conservatives don't care about a centralized government, look at the GWBush presidency when conservatives loved GWBush for his War on Terror and GWBush's War on Terror was the one the largest expansions of government power in a long time, and conservatives loved it. conservatives also loved when the federal government banned gay marriage. Another meaningless conservative talking point that ignores reality.
Yes conservatives do advocate for less regulations.
The question is how do conservatives base so much of their political ideology on hatred?
No my understanding of conservatives are based on reading books.
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Rubin
That implies they are capable of thinking. An erroneous assumption on your part.
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