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US Conservativism baffles me. It seems totally arbitrary what issues are personal freedom (guns, vaccination) and what are tightly socially controlled (drugs, a

• krapp 5y ago
  Conservative values are guided primarily by business interests, then traditional Christian dogma. The things they want to control and ban are contrary to one or the other.
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  • LatteLazy 5y ago
    "Politics makes strange bedfellows" i guess. I guess you can make an alliance of single issue voters much more easily than an ideological one.
    • krapp 5y ago
      They've ended up with most of the Christians, most of the guns and most of the money on their side. I deplore everything else about them but I have to respect the effectiveness of their propaganda.
• skocznymroczny 5y ago
  Well, on the other side of the political spectrum you also have arbitrary boundaries on which issues are pro-science (vaccinations) and which aren't (nuclear power).
  • LatteLazy 5y ago
    No one is totally self consistent, but it seems weird to me: the dems can't quite manage it on nuclear power which is about 1% of their platform. The Reps can manage it on abortion, guns or the budget, which is aboht 95% of their platform...
  • triceratops 5y ago
    Is being anti-nuclear necessarily "anti-science"? How much have Chernobyl and Fukushima cost to clean up? Are there a lot of private insurers lining up to underwrite new plants? Even if nuclear is perfectly safe (which it largely is), and waste disposal is a perfectly solved problem (which it's not), economically there's a big question mark over it. I don't understand why conservatives are so hot about something so fiscally reckless.