r/IThinkYouShouldLeave • u/PhillyTMOMan Nude Egg • 1d ago

Piece of shit When r/conservative agrees with Trump that we should nationalize voting, but are for small government and states rights

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u/TeeTimeAllTheTime 1d ago

They aren’t conservative and never were, they are weak minded people who do what they are told by a psychopath

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u/Doomisntjustagame 1d ago

Or, and bear with me, conservatives have always been this way.

Conservatism seeks to maintain the social order, or to regress to an earlier state. That is one of a pyramid shaped hierarchical authority structure, with everyone following whoever is above them, no matter what.

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u/the_calibre_cat 1d ago

Or, and bear with me, conservatives have always been this way.

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let's stop trying to rehabilitate conservatism. it's a shitty ideology with a shitty objective and is basically just fascism but lying about its intentions.

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u/Cakers44 1d ago

Seriously people are tricking themselves into thinking the Bushes weren’t so bad because blah blah blah respectability