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zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Gonna get downvoted, but conservative ideals should be present to some minor extent to balance things out. I don’t mean modern conservatives or Republicans, but the concept of fiscal conservatism (e.g. preventing waste in the military). I’m not talking about the fIsCaL cOnSeRvAtIsM that current Republicans preach either, like hollowing out social programs to give tax cuts to their buddies. So yeah that’s of course not what we have now, but there should be a healthy balance for that kind of thing.

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Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The problem is that what you describe is not conservatism, it’s just basic competence in governance. It’s an impressive achievement of the radical right that they have managed to get people to conflate the two.

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- zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sure that’s fair. Whatever you want to label it, there needs to be some kind of balances against full progressivism so it doesn’t go extremely far to the left. I say this as a pretty far left progressive in most things, but have some minor conservative ideals (such as individuals wanting to support themselves without relying on outside sources). Again, I’m well aware that’s not modern Conservatism in the US these days.
  
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Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The people who say this tend to forget that if you only take the “good things” from conservatism it ceases to be conservatism. The conservative ideology is garbage and only leads countries to a sort of destructive cannabalism.

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SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You won’t get downvoted. Ideally you’d have both parties suck it up and work together and combine ideologies. But… well you know… Babies

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- Vinstaal0@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Ideally you wouldn’t have two parties, but have an odd number of parties to figure it out. So three at minimum
  
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Vinstaal0@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Describing the good of the opinions that are more on the right side of the spectrum isn’t going to come across as good if you use conservatives to describe it.

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