“fiscal responsibility” never really existed from a government standpoint, macroeconomics has never made that much sense, but I’ll grant that “avoid deficit spending” could be the one conservative claimed trait that, while they don’t actually do, could be said to meet a definition of conservative. The other two are neither things they’ve ever been, nor things that the word means, so I think it’s straight propaganda that they’d ever be associated with those.
I’m just relaying that they’ve promoted that these are conservative ideals quite often. It’s obviously bullshit. But I’d be fine with small government fiscally conservative people. I’m not down with bigots, sore loser insurrectionists, and people who lick boots whenever police brutality is put on display.
I’d argue that the aging gay NIMBY community in San Francisco is an example of being both LGBT and conservative, though they vote almost 100% democrat. I don’t think Republicans and queer folks can coexist, given the whole “want to erase anyone not straight from existence” thing. But conservative and queer is definitely a thing.
What does “conservatism” mean to you? In my opinion there is no functioning definition of it that is safe for LGBTQ coexistence.
Should mean secular small government and fiscal responsibility, but that party never existed.
“fiscal responsibility” never really existed from a government standpoint, macroeconomics has never made that much sense, but I’ll grant that “avoid deficit spending” could be the one conservative claimed trait that, while they don’t actually do, could be said to meet a definition of conservative. The other two are neither things they’ve ever been, nor things that the word means, so I think it’s straight propaganda that they’d ever be associated with those.
I’m just relaying that they’ve promoted that these are conservative ideals quite often. It’s obviously bullshit. But I’d be fine with small government fiscally conservative people. I’m not down with bigots, sore loser insurrectionists, and people who lick boots whenever police brutality is put on display.
I’d argue that the aging gay NIMBY community in San Francisco is an example of being both LGBT and conservative, though they vote almost 100% democrat. I don’t think Republicans and queer folks can coexist, given the whole “want to erase anyone not straight from existence” thing. But conservative and queer is definitely a thing.