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Can right wing conservatives be socialists in America

Shad

Veteran Member
<IMPORTANT> If you did not vote for a right wing candidate in your prospective country, be prepared to be called out for posting in the Conservative Only forum.

There is no requirement to have voted to post nor is one obligated to vote for a party just because it calls itself conservative. You are making a huge assumption that such parties actually have a conservative platform. No one represents me as a fiscal conservative as most politicians know handing out money wins votes.
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
There is no requirement to have voted to post nor is one obligated to vote for a party just because it calls itself conservative. You are making a huge assumption that such parties actually have a conservative platform. No one represents me as a fiscal conservative as most politicians know handing out money wins votes.

Nonsense. If someone voted for Hillary, Bernie or Biden, they're not conservatives period, and they shouldn't be posting here.
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Nonsense. If someone voted for Hillary, Bernie or Biden, they're not conservatives period, and they shouldn't be posting here.
Hillary was the conservative option. She proposed no sweeping changes.

Trump was the progressive. He proposed many big changes, for the sake of progress.

Really big ones. Like ending the USA history as "The Nation of Immigrants". That's not conservative. It's not even Republican.
It's TeaParty progressive.
Tom
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
Hillary was the conservative option. She proposed no sweeping changes.

Trump was the progressive. He proposed many big changes, for the sake of progress.

Really big ones. Like ending the USA history as "The Nation of Immigrants". That's not conservative. It's not even Republican.
It's TeaParty progressive.
Tom

I see this forum has no meaning then.
 

Shad

Veteran Member
Nonsense. If someone voted for Hillary, Bernie or Biden, they're not conservatives period, and they shouldn't be posting here.

I didn't vote for my conservative party as their policies didn't win my vote. Also consider the lesser of two evils argument.
 

Shad

Veteran Member
I see this forum has no meaning then.

It does. It is based on a very narrow view of conservative and fundamental Christian citizen of the US. The standard make the subsection a wasteland. Compared that to say Socialist which is far more of an umbrella definition.
 

Dan From Smithville

What's up Doc?
Staff member
Premium Member
Sorry Tom. But you didn't vote for Trump... And You don't wish you had... So you're not a conservative.
That is interesting. I had no idea that the test for conservatism was voting for Trump or wishing to have voted for Trump.

What was it before Trump? Dreaming of someone like Trump?

There are conservatives that did not vote for him, there are conservatives that do not like him and there are conservatives that are sorry they voted for him.
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Trump simply is not a fiscal conservative, nor a political conservative, nor a social conservative.

He is not a conservative, and since so many self-proclaimed "conservatives" in his party still support him, I do think it's clear they never were really conservatives to begin with or are so "tribal" that they are willing to sacrifice their conservatism for the "tribe".
 

Gandalf

Horn Tooter
I hold a strong interest in third-way economic theories and especially distributist theory hence I favor a strong but detached government from our lives that enforces very little but at the same time permits markets and reduces some primary aspects about capitalism such as non physical or detached ownership.
 
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