The argument I hold against conservatism, even classic conservatism is that there are too many people who are miserable, too many people in crisis. And to disregard them, to fail to acknowledge and respond to their state is wrongdoing against humanity.

Of course, post-Nixon conservatism endorsed dehumanizing and disenfranchising the lower strata on the social hierarchy.

MAGA, who disregards everyone not MAGA is the natural progression.

And they don’t realize the plutocratic class even unperson them, and will cut even into themselves as they can.

The face-eating leopards come for everyone.

When this MAGA version started 10 years ago, they were called the “alt right”. To me, GOP stands for “Gas and Oil Party”.

This is where conservatism always leads. There’s only one genuine ideal held by conservatives, and that’s that society should be hierarchical. While most general populace conservatives don’t realize it, it’s an inherently dishonest ideology because the real driving force is the wealthy who want to become an aristocratic class but realize nobody will just give them that, so they instead direct your attention toward attempts to put someone under you while they quietly elevate themselves. Everything else is just window dressing and distractions. Conservative leaders don’t give a shit about abortion or trans rights, but they do care about riling up their base to garner support over stupid shit and distract them from all the pillaging.

They’re mostly economic libertarians, wealthy Capitalists seeking tax breaks and lobbying, cultists, and fascists.

Quite often they’re all of the above.

This is very different to people who genuinely want to improve the conditions of their neighborhoods/families/towns/community/spirituality/nation.

Conservatives let their values be hijacked. They did so willingly to “win”… And now I don’t think they exist anymore. They fucked around, found out, now they don’t have a party.

We use Epsteins cock-ring as the ring of power now. The real ring got hocked and the money sent to Israel years ago. We could throw it into a volcano but I hear theres thousands and thousands of those rings, held by both parties. So another one will just appear. Some say Mossad are still making new pedo cock-rings even now.

Raised and incentivized for life to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears.

His administration also used the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to purposefully run highways through black neighborhoods, seizing people’s homes and apartments through Eminent Domain.

trillionaires should be forced to transition

You want a trillion dollars so that you and all of your descendants can live in the lap of luxury for the rest of time.

I want a trillion dollars so the government will forcefem me.

We are not the same.

I feel like you have misunderstood what capital punishment means

wow, that was brilliant. never seen that one.

That was when republicans were the progressives.

While there was a party flip on social issues in the 1960’s, Republicans from 1910’s to today were the party of big business.

Republican’s opposed Unions, Labor laws, and the New Deal that created Social Safety nets and helped Labor over Capital.

There were plenty progressive Democrats back then, who do you think lead the New Deal and Great Society movements? The parties did not line up so neatly into “progressive” and “conservative” during this time. There was a lot more variety within each party, and both parties had both left- and right-leaning wings that often disagreed

Mmm it was mid flip. Don’t forget that Republicans railed against Social Security that FDR was proposing.

Yep. Conservatives (edit: the Conservative bloc of American politicians, not whatever other thing you’re writing a snide reply about right now) came to be called that because they were interested in conservation of nature, before it came to describe fiscal policy or religious extremism. The conservatives of today are nothing like them.

I don’t know what were the brakets. But a lot of the time, for billionaires, the vast majority of their income gets taxed at the highest bracket. Because the other brackets are too small to even register in their income.

Your post is useless if you don’t mention what the highest tax bracket is.

Nobody earned enough to be taxed in the top bracket. That was the entire point. To avoid that top bracket, businessmen lowered prices, or paid employees higher wages, or purchased tax deductible goods and services. What they didn’t do was take additional profit, because the IRS would claim 91% of those profits. Everything the businessman did to avoid that punitive top tier was of great benefit to the economy.

That’s basically every tax system excluding the ones without taxes or that apply a flat rate to everyone.

I had to explain this to my retired parent, who worked their entire life handling payroll. It’s genuinely appalling that the system is so effective at keeping the public uninformed.

If they want to be the party of Lincoln they also have to be the party of Eisenhower.

Was it the 60’s when there was the parties flipped? I always thought it was the 20’s/30’s with Hoover and FDR?

Your average US president, then.

If we taxed wealth correctly, billionaires would reach that threshold in a about day, if not faster.

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That happened after the Nixon presidency.

Didn’t he drop more explosives on Korea than was dropped in the entirety of world war 2 or something like that? He was directly responsible for the establishment of the military I dustrial complex.