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Originally Posted by DonQuigleone
Well, the problem is that the "moderate" conservatives are now all part of the Democratic Party. To be fair, you could argue that besides maybe FDR through Johnson, the Democratic Party has actually been more the "conservative" party, while the Republicans were the liberal party. After FDR, the Democrats expanded to include social liberals. Currently the moderate conservatives and social liberals are uneasy bedfellows while the opposition is dominated by radicals.
If the Republican party were to bite the dust, I could easily see the Democratic party splintering into conservative and social liberal halves. You could already see the fractures in the party when it was more powerful from 2008-2010.
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That's partially true, their financial "policies" are indeed radical in the sense that they support large corporation and trusts, eliminating mid- and small-scale competitors, the opposite of what classical capitalism supports and much closer to what P.R. of China does. Socially though, not only the american conservatives, but in all anglo-saxon cultures, their policies are typically conservative, like the theocracy of Iran and military state of Israel, anti-feminist, anti-gay, anti-free-speech, anti-social-support, anti-foreigners... generally reactionary to any kind of progress or controversy, since Luther, Ali, etc. doubted their leaders' divine right to interpret their messiah, prophet or however second hand accounts and teachings they want to believe in.