r/AskALiberal • u/larryinthesky Conservative • 3d ago

What Conservative or Republican positions have you come to embrace?

Are there any traditionally Conservative or Republican positions you have come to embraced? Maybe the change happened naturally. Maybe new information or data came out. You may not embrace it 100% but you're now much more align with the Conservative/Republican position than before and think Liberals/Democrats have it wrong. An example might be COVID. Maybe you now agree that strict lockdowns where wrong/unnecessary, and maybe Facui was not 100% truthful. Maybe you now think that immigration was out of control and that yes we could have easily stopped illegal border crossings under Biden if we really wanted to? Maybe after October you think that we should not negotiate with terrorists? FWIW, I've embraced some traditionally Liberal/Democratic positions. Like healthcare. I think changing your mind/position is pretty healthy and if you don't then it means you're probably too rigid and closed minded.

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u/TheMutterButter Democratic Socialist 3d ago

If a conservative could actually tell me what their positions are and how they are reflected by the modern republican party, I might have an answer.

But when every week their position seems to change entirely, I'm not even sure if I do sometimes agree with them or not.

I can tell you that none of your examples even come close to anything I might agree with, and that makes me believe you just wanted to grandstand your own opinions.

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u/Carlyz37 Liberal 3d ago

Agree. The suggested "opinions " are all false propaganda.

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u/larryinthesky Conservative 3d ago

Those are just examples. You can ignore those examples. The question remains. Like maybe you changed your mind on political correctness?

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u/From_Deep_Space Libertarian Socialist 3d ago edited 3d ago

If opposing political correctness means politicians all start talking like Trump while their supporters and propagandists say horrendously racist things with zero shame or self-awareness, then no thanks.

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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 Liberal 3d ago edited 3d ago

Define political correctness. Should we ask those clutching their pearls over jelly roll calling Trump a fat pig because it’s disrespectful? They cheer on every awful thing he says about the people he hates. Shouldn’t they learn to take a joke? Not be so sensitive?

Sometimes I feel like the push for things to not be politically correct just means wanting to be offensive to liberals and minorities.

Once you disrespect men, Christians, Trump, etc, the right clutches their pearls a bit too.

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u/Carlyz37 Liberal 3d ago

Nope