A lot of today's "conservatives" aren't conservative, don't stand for anything really

[ck4829]

It's just if you are someone they don't like and you have positions A, B, and C, then they take positions not-A, not-B, and not-C.

Look at how they operate and talk, you know it's true... But this can be messed with, find ways to throw wrenches into this mindset.

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. Not true. They stand for stealing your money. n/t

[Sherman A1]

4. Precisely

It is all about the money. The social issues are just used to divide the masses while they laugh all the way to the bank,

[ooky]

19. Also, they stand for stealing children from their parents.

[JI7]

2. they stand for hate

[Cary]

5. Yes they do.

Because they are stupid.

[Cary]

3. Half of the population has an IQ under 100

[msongs]

6. conservative means back to the bad old days IMO nt

[Trust Buster]

7. They are not interested in conserving anything.

From the environment, public education, labor rights, internet rights, women’s rights or our right to have a government reasonably free of wealthy influence......THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN CONSERVING ANYTHING. The biggest mistake the media and dems make in my opinion is to convey a respectful term like “conservative” onto these radical and SELFISH animals.

[lastlib]

9. Correction: they're interested (only) in conserving:

1) Wealth for the wealthy;
2) Power for the powerful;
3) comfort for the comfortable;
4) affliction for the afflicted;
5) poverty for the poor.

[onecaliberal]

8. There is an old song that says you've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

[elleng]

10. None of them are, in fact, 'conservative,' which actually means:

holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.
synonyms: traditionalist, traditional, conventional, orthodox, old-fashioned.

They are, in fact, radical and extreme.

[mountain grammy]

21. Exactly!

Today's political conservatives are radical and extremists, anything but conservative.

[Hortensis]

11. They're conservative by personality but obey bad leaders

who lead them to abandon what was once considered normal political conservative ideology. That's because protecting what is old and good doesn't work for the new billionaire class.

I strongly disagree that they don't stand for anything, though. They have been trained to stand for protecting the nation from everything and anything they are told is liberal. A mindlessly simple, if negative, ideology that most are very committed to.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Personality of RW Authoritarian Followers analyzed and outlined

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028065177#post13

[ooky]

20. They've surrendered their morality to those bad leaders.

There's nothing conservative about cheating on your spouse but now they excuse their leaders when they do it. There's nothing conservative about breaking up families, conservatives are supposed to be all about family values. Now they exclude those families who aren't the right color. Those families they want to break up.

[jimlup]

12. These people are radical plutocrats

I can't imagine any other term.

[UTUSN]

13. They're just late 19th Century Robber Barons without the charitable cover.

[certainot]

15. one only needs to listen to an hour of limbaugh to know what happened

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. they only believe what they are told to believe. The dregs. Deplorables.

[dlk]

17. They are More Reactionary Than Conservative

[elmac]

18. they stand for taking everything they can and giving nothing in return. nt

[Garrett78]

22. Support for right wing ideology all comes down to bigotry or greed, or both.

The greedy are happy to foment and exploit bigotry. And the bigots support Republicans because of their bigotry.

I'll say it for the umpteenth time, without racism and sexism there...is...no...viable...Republican...Party. Magically wake up in a world free of racism (including xenophobia) and sexism, and there would not be a national Republican Party in the United States of America. There would not be a national Republican Party in the United States.

It's not economic anxiety. It's not opposition to universal health care. It's not opposition to environmental protection policies. It's not opposition to affordable post-secondary education. It's not even opposition to sensible gun control policies (background checks, waiting periods, etc.). It's all about racism and sexism and hatred of LGBTQ persons and hatred for liberals (the latter has much to do with liberals being anti-racist, anti-sexist, etc.). That bigotry is then exploited to justify right wing economic policy ("those people" shouldn't get such-and-such), right wing health care policy (again, "those people" just want a handout), etc.

The sooner every well-meaning person of conscience recognizes this and unites against the Republican Party the better.

[jmowreader]

23. Folks, stop.

Today's "conservatives" are driven by hatred. Simple as that.

Easy example: My own brother. He is a conservative. All he does is hate. He hates nonwhite people. He hates women. Hates gays. Hates Democrats. Hates ANYONE who lives in the Northeast. Hates anyone from California. Hates anyone who served in any branch but the Marines. Hates cats. Hate, hate, hate. His favorite singer is Lee Ann Womack, and he likes her because she sings this song:

(If you don't want to click it, and I don't recommend you do, it's a song about a woman trying to figure out a justification for hating her ex-boyfriend's new fiancee.)

[EricMaundry]

24. I agree

A lot of those calling themselves conservative are actually rightwing radicals.