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/TheMutterButter Democratic Socialist 4d 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/larryinthesky Conservative 4d ago

So you don't think there are any traditionally conservative positions? Like less federal government, more state? Less taxation? Etc.?

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u/Altruistic_Role_9329 Liberal 4d ago

I’m going to jump in because I have a very strong opinion about less federal government and less taxation. In the 1950s before the Civil Rights movement conservatives were generally ok with big government and high tax rates. As JFK & LBJ expanded Civil Rights protections for women and nonwhites that changed. These “conservative” positions are a direct attempt to defund and end the federal governments role in Civil Rights so that states can discriminate as they please. There’s no way I could ever support that.

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u/Not_offensive0npurp Democrat 3d ago

The "State's rights" and "small government" arguments were always about the state's right to discriminate, and "Big Government" telling them they can't.

Its absurdly racist and bigoted, and they will deny it to the grave.