I promise I don't mean this to be insulting but hopefully to spark some reflection and ultimately research and growth, but like most Americans your politics are incoherent
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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Wait! I'm not with THEM! There's an unfortunately loud part of the country that is giving the GOP, conservatives, and Americans a bad name. This comm is for the rest of us, the quiet majority. If there is anything worth conserving, it's our values: Respect, Integrity, and Truth.
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When I got up this morning, opening this community was not on my to-do list. Also, I've never moderated anything before. That is to say, I'm making a lot of this up as I go and I'll tell you it's hard to write something when you're not responding to something. This first post was a shout into the darkness without much forethought. I'm glad anybody was there to hear it.
All I know is that the conservative voices on Lemmy are not speaking accurately for me right now.
What are the things you wish politicians would pay more attention to? I will say that the other poster is on to something although maybe unwittingly that on the real salient issues that affect most of us working people, which is to say economics and foreign policy, there is surprisingly little daylight between both mainstream US parties.
Not unwittingly comrade
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What separates you from a moderate Democrat?
I'm not interested in setting myself apart from anybody else. I believe that's a part of how we got into our current constitutional crisis.
Something closer to an actual answer to your question might be that I value strong institutions over strong government. I believe in the collection of experts more than the accuracy of the masses. Since we'll never elect experts on "How to Human" it's better we ask everybody, hence democracy, but infrastructure isn't a place where we can have everybody paint the shed. I want to believe in a free market where companies and consumers can converse better than "did the consumers buy it or not." The dollar is not god.
I'm not interested in setting myself apart from anybody else.
Then why make this comm? Aren't you trying to separate yourself as an old school conservative?
If you are, then you have two options in modern American politics, 1 stay with the party and embrace fascism because it is firmly trumps party at this point, or 2 join the establishment dems because they have fully embraced folks like Liz Cheney. Unless you'd like to break up the 2-party system, in which case I would say, thanks for the help comrade.
I guess there are a few people I want to set myself apart from: bigots, nationalists, fascists, that ilk.
They are the loudest assholes at the moment. So I'm setting out to make and be something different. I'm hedging my bets on not being alone. I don't think it's radical to say that we shouldn't start wars on a whim and we shouldn't snatch people up at their legalization court hearings. Where I lose some people in my neck of the woods is that I couldn't care less what sex or gender they are. What they tell me is good enough. Want to change it? You do you. I'm already married to the one person who's genitals I'm going to have any preference about. And as long as they only pull it out at home, I don't care what's in their pants. This gets filed under "freedom" for me. Simple.
You're still sounding like a dem. Why are you opposed to that association?
I don't like political labels. There's too many false dichotomies. Conservative is the one that I feel describes me best, though. Things can change, but I appreciate them more when they change slowly. If nobody is the voice of reason in the room, things can change too quickly for me and I believe for all of us. Before too long we won't recognize ourselves in the mirror.
Is allowing any progress too progressive?
lol
Glad to see ya here!
And guys, he actually started this community because he was annoyed by me, so he's not me. He's way more moderate, open-minded, and thoughtful than I am. Don't run him off.
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