They left out God.
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If you are buying the flavor he is pushing, then you are ingesting RAT POISON!
I’m conservative, but the definition of conservatism that you have there is not correct. What you have there is a libertarian’s view of a conservative.
Libertarians do not believe in a “Robust National Defense.”
After 9/11, they (Cato / Reason) did not support invading Afghanistan.
They are limp-wristed, lilly-livered, tail-between-their-legs pu$$ies.
Conservatives believe in ending Corporate Welfare.
Corporate Welfare is supported by the Bushies-GOPe socialist wing of the Republican party. They are not Conservative.
This is friggin’ idiotic.
Conservatives don’t believe in personal freedom?
Nuts.
Whoever wrote this can go back to he||.
I was just thinking of a way to ‘grade’ these idiots who will probably be running in 2016.
Due to the dumbing down of everything, it would have to be a PASS or FAIL system.
Which ones do you give a FAIL to on a given issue?
Which ones do you give a PASS to on a given issue?
These libertarian propoganda images are laughable.
I consider Libertarians to be -- psychologically -- very much like Liberals: immature.
Here’s one way to look at this: You can consider TWO primary spheres of influence that the Gubbermint wants to get its grubby hands on:
(1) The Economic Sphere (tangible assets, goods and services)
(2) The “Hearts and Minds” of people (what they believe, how they think about things)
Now, I am a stubborn cuss, and short of shooting me, it would be difficult for a Gubbermint Agent to change my belief system. I can assume that others with strong personal convictions operate the same way. So, people of strong convictions are more or less “immune” to the Gubbermint’s attention to the second sphere.
On the other hand, for a Gubbermint to operate at all, it needs to be able to tax (and take) actual things of value from the first sphere. While a belief of mine cannot be seized, my house sure could. So, I look for proponents of small Gubbermint that advocate LESS INFLUNCE in the Economic Sphere.
Some preachy tea-totaller could advocate for a ban on alcohol, and that would just be water off my back. A man with a gun from the Gubbermint shows up at the house to confiscate my 150 year old Scotch, and I have a problem with that.
So, let’s get the Gubbermint to pass fewer laws about actual, tangible things, and I think we can let people’s personal beliefs work themselves out.
All this is, is democrat light, maybe worse. Personal freedom and tolerance for other peoples choices, could mean anything. Freedom to have sex with whoever and whatever you want; freedom to let kids smoke pot in kindergarten (they are citizens too) or sell heroin at the drugstore. Freedom to let parents kill babies after they are born. Politicians can start out with vague with laws and expand them to allow people to fulfill their every passion and desire.
The Big-L Libertarians lost me a few years ago on amnesty for illegals and their 'surrender monkey' tendencies post-911. But considering that victory is no longer our ultimate goal in warfare, maybe the LP was on to something regarding the latter.
conservative= libertarian (Jeffersonian)!
Semper semper!
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I’m a God and Republic Conservative.
The so-called conservative plank listed is truly bunk! who designed this? a libertarian, of course! to make it look ridiculous!
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The graphic is a complete crock!
Those on the Left do not believe in:
1) Personal freedom. - They believe that people should have whatever freedoms THEY would like us to have. Conservatives defend personal freedoms.
2) Non-interventionist foreign policy. Almost all wars America has fought in the past 100 years (whether right or wrong) have been mainly or entirely under Democrat presidents. I don’t think either side is inherently more prone to intervention, it depends upon the situation.
3) Tolerance of personal choice? If someone chooses to homeschool their children, express their faith publicly, own or carry a gun, hire whom they choose, choose not to allow homosexuals to mentor their boys, etc., the Left will crucify them. About the only “choices” the Left believe in are the “right” to choose to have sex with whomever one wants, whenever one wants, the right to choose to kill unborn babies and the right to choose to either work or not work and live a lavish lifestyle off the labor of those who do work.
4) Ending corporate welfare. The Left supports all sort of corporate welfare such as bailout of union ruined automakers, “green” energy funding, tax credit for electric cars, public/private housing and other projects.
5) Civil liberties and privacy? You’ve got to be kidding. The left wants to control how big our soda cups our, how many rounds we can have in our magazines (if they allow us guns at all), and what opinions we are allowed to have.
On the other side. Conservatives do not believe in:
1) Government imposed morality. Opposing murder (whether unborn children, born children or adults) is not government imposed morality, but protecting the most fundamental right, the right to life. Opposing fake “marriages” that fly in the face of biology, sociology, history and common sense, is not “imposing morality” it is maintaining a modicum of common sense.
2) Nation building. Real conservatives generally do not support this.
3) War on drugs - there is mixed opinon on this and I think it depends upon what one means by the term.
4) Patriot Act - real conservatives oppose much of the Patriot Act. I’d say there is about the same amount of support of the PA across the political spectrum. Some on the right and left love it, others on both sides hate it.
5) Taxpaer funding for faith based charities. Conservatives generally oppose most or all taxpayer funding for charities, but believe if this taxpayer money is going to be handed out, religious charities should not be discriminated against, and in fact, are generally the best and most efficient charities.
6) Special treatment for select corporations. Conservatives generally support a climate that is good for ALL businesses whether small, large, corporations, partnerships or sole proprietorships. It is the left that wants the government to pick winners and losers and fund certain businesses while banning others.
Whoever made that chart doesn’t understand what conservatives really believe.