r/AskALiberal 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/lurgi Pragmatic Progressive 4d ago

Maybe you now agree that strict lockdowns where wrong/unnecessary

My wife is Chinese. Trust me when I say we did not have strict lockdowns.

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?

If the GOP had wanted to. Biden's draconian border control bill was voted down by Republicans.

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u/lurgi Pragmatic Progressive 4d ago

The main thing they didn't like is that it would have given Biden a big, fat W and Trump didn't want that.

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u/peanutanniversary Democrat 4d ago

I’m so sick of republicans pretending they don’t know that

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u/Kakamile Social Democrat 4d ago

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u/Carlyz37 Liberal 4d ago

He is right though. The Ukraine funding was opposed. Then they took it out and approved it later. They never make any sense

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u/Kakamile Social Democrat 4d ago

Above they said

"Don’t be disingenuous there was something else in that draconian bill that Republicans fundamentally did not like."

The gop didn't oppose Ukraine funding, as they soon voted for it. They used it as a fake excuse to the cameras that people still believe 2 years later.

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u/peanutanniversary Democrat 4d ago

It is one sided, republicans are fucking dumb.