• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Same applies when you hear an American person say they’re a social-liberal but fiscal-conservative. They think it makes them sound like an enlightened centrist, but as soon as I hear it I think “oh, this person’s a Trumper who doesn’t have the balls to just say it.”

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      1 year ago

      Fiscal conservatives quietly became Republicans, but not “conservatives”. There’s a weird thing going on with that here… Your not wrong, though. They have been greedy cowards of they took this stance in the last few decades.

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        1 year ago

        Fiscally conservative should mean voting for Democrats because Republicans are fucking awful with money.

        But the Republicans still hold onto this myth that they’re somehow more financially responsible.

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          We need a reverse version of that “always has been” meme for “never were”