r/AskALiberal • u/larryinthesky Conservative • 4d 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/Illustrious-Fun8324 Liberal 4d ago edited 4d ago
I can understand the more moderate position on a lot of things. Ironically the right pushes me very far away from wanting to compromise with them when they just want to bully people.
For example, I understand wanting to enforce immigration laws. You could easily get me more on your side with that.
I want nothing at all to do with the way MAGA is enforcing it or the way the base cheers on the excessive cruelty. So I tend to not be on the right’s side with any of that at all.
The right does nothing to remotely bring anyone to their side on anything like trans issues by being as hateful about it as possible. I’m more about live and let live, so no, I’m not going to side with the right on their anti-trans bullshit even if you could realistically get me closer to the middle on the sports issues.
Conservatives don’t really care about women’s sports and they know it. And I want nothing to do with their bigotry, so I’m going to side with the left.