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Originally Posted by DonQuigleone
Conservatism is a mindset, not a set of policies.
Modern Republicans are geared around a particular set of policies, and do not have a "conservative" mindset. In fact, they're downright Radical, they want to completely change the order of America to something that has before now not existed.
In fact, "Radicals" are the opposite of "Conservative", to be a "Radical Conservative" is an oxymoron.
America has it's definitions all messed up.
If you want to see actual conservative look at the British Conservative party, or the German Christian Democrats.
I'd actually call the Republicans radical liberals infused with a side of Reactionaries and Christianists (like Islamists, but Christian!).
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I agree DQ.
Many of the so called "conservatives" aren't really conservative in the literal definition of the word any more than so called "liberals" are actually Liberal.
I call them corporatists because what they preach reminds me a great deal of what
Benito wrote about back in the 1930s.