People don’t choose to be broke.
Not according to an alarming number of conservatives. You know those millennials and their apparent preference for avocado toast over health insurance and such.
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Fiscally conservative doesn’t mean “fuck poor people” it means stop spending public money on stupid shit like war, corporate welfare, crony contracts for your civil engineer buddies, etc. Twisting the words of people who are socially liberal but fiscally conservative- which is a lot of people btw - is not helping. If Dems want consensus to get things done, they are going to have to start acting like it. I doubt socially liberal has all that much to do with smoking weed, either.
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You’re joking, right? The way it is practiced in America, it does. “Fiscally conservative” is a dog-whistle for “I don’t want to be taxed” at all, much less when that tax money is used for social programs of any kind.
Essentially, saying that one is “fiscally conservative but socially liberal” is a statement of “I don’t like the end results, but I’m find with the root causes.”
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The reality of “fiscal conservatism” is money for defense (which means pork for many congressional districts aligned with contractors) and virtually nothing else.
Fiscal conservatives in your sense are as common as something out of the Fiend Folio. If this isn’t how FCs want to be depicted, then they have a lot of work ahead of them.
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Not everyone…only the truly “deserving” (cue Lee Atwater).
Generously putting the GOP’s bigotry aside, though, and generously assuming that both party establishments are only interested in servicing the interests of wealthy corporate and human persons, only one of the programmes is a remotely feasible means to that end while the other is a fantasy meant to appeal to the dull-witted while simultaneously making sure it is never fulfilled.
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No it isn’t.
The lower right quadrant is fiscal conservative/social liberal. It’s extremely empty for there supposedly being a massive segment of the population espousing those beliefs.
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