Understanding Conservatism

exGOPer

exGOPer

I have figured out what modern conservatism stands for - it's as simple as hating two things

1. People who are not in your group, who are not like you. Migrants, people of different color, race or religion fit the bill but also people who advocate for people not in your group (liberals for example)

2. Taxes - because the assumption is taxes are going to people you hate which is why you hear so much about welfare abuse but welfare is OK as long as it goes to them. They deserve it, others don't.

This is it, nothing else matters to a conservative and this is true everywhere. And this is precisely why whataboutism is their single most important tool.
 
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With regard to the question of deficits and tax cuts, my economic studies have led me to believe that both Democrats and Republicans are wrong. Most economists have not yet accepted that there is a money-debt-taxation-inflation-employment paradigm that should permit countries with their own currency, even when embedded in a global economy, to violate the Phillips Curve and achieve simultaneously full employment and low inflation. There is now, however, a new breed of economists that accept that this is possible. One of the several prominent advocates for the new paradigm would be L. Randall Wray a student and protégé of Hymen Minsky, and incidentally at one time an Associate Professor of Economics at my Alma Mater and now a Professor at the University of Missouri. Any one interested in this topic can start by looking up Wray's publications. That will open the door to this new field of economic thinking and lead to its growing number of proponents.

As a nice introduction see:

 
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piezoe said:
With regard to the question of deficits and tax cuts, my economic studies have led me to believe that both Democrats and Republicans are wrong. Most economists have not yet accepted that there is a money-debt-taxation-inflation-employment paradigm that should permit countries with their own currency, even when embedded in a global economy, to violate the Phillips Curve and achieve simultaneously full employment and low inflation. There is now, however, a new breed of economists that accept that this is possible. One of the several prominent advocates for the new paradigm would be L. Randall Wray a student and protégé of Hymen Minsky, and incidentally at one time an Associate Professor of Economics at my Alma Mater and now a Professor at the University of Missouri. Any one interested in this topic can start by looking up Wray's publications. That will open the door to this new field of economic thinking and lead to its growing number of proponents.

As a nice introduction see:
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This isn't about the policy, this is about WHY the policy is advocated/preferred/justified
 
exGOPer said:
This isn't about the policy, this is about WHY the policy is advocated/preferred/justified
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I guess my post is more in the way of ultimately, if one follows up, explaining why the people who think the way you have described are surely wrong in their thinking. They, it seems, are believing things and behaving in ways that are against their own best interests.

Understanding "Why" we prefer one policy over another, is a big first step.
 
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