Why are conservatives not conservative with there own life?
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This from a Democrat:\n\nIt wasn't that long ago that the Republican Party was pro-business and for a strong national defense but also for civil rights and protecting our environment. \n\nNewt Gingrich was the evil political chemist who threw that out the window and melded the wealthiest Americans with the most socially conservative people in our society. His strange cocktail gave birth and power to the likes of Tom DeLay, James Dobson , Exxon and Halliburton.\n\nObviously the wealthiest Americans like the Walton family are greedy. I promise you that the far right's religious leaders are as well.\n\nWhen are the little people going to understand that they're being gamed? Jesus has nothing to do with this.
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Interesting you say that.  I am a conservative and often find myself asking the same question concerning liberals.\n\nI don't think you really can find an answer to that particular question because it is merely an attack of something you do not understand.  If you would like to know why conservatives see things in a different way try understanding where they come from.  Listen to what they say not to what others say about what they say.  \n\nI try to do that with liberals.  Instead of saying that they are just raising taxes to give to the poor I try to understand why it is not OK for me to keep the money I work for and earn.  I am not rich by any means but I do believe that if someone has earned or even inherited money from someone that earned it, they should be able to keep it and spend as they see fit.  \n\nIt is not mean spiritedness and nastiness.  It is a difference in the basic way we see things.  Name calling does not lead to anything but anger.  For proof that people can actually see things differently while looking at the same thing ... see the website listed below.
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Not true.\n\nJust CONSERVATIVE is dirty.\n\nLOL
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http://www.armchairsubversive.com/\n\nIt stems from a certain amount of sexual frustration and guilt coupled by secretly acting out.  "Liberal" people tend to be more honest with their sexuality, and therefore act out sexually in healthy ways.  \n\nConservatives on the other hand choose to repress their sexuality, which holds a certain amount of inherent dishonesty, and are far more prone to porno addiction, child incest, child molestation, serial rape, and psycho-sexual serial murder.  Even Ted Bundy was a very politically active Republican, working for several Florida campaigns.
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It is hard to get a conservatives who is taught to do as they are told and to stand by their father figure regardless of ones actions. The other reason is fear for their career. You have to point out that these republicans today in the White House are not the good old boy republicans like Eisenhower who had a slogan, 'Vote for Peace", "Vote for Eisenhower". That is all you can do, point out that these are not real republicans.
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liberal conservative?
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I am a conservative.\nI do NOT support sanctions and laws against gays marrying and women having abortions.\nThey are definently moral  AND political issues.\nThe reason it is a political issue is the fear of change and the fear that someones morals are not going to be the same.  If it was just a moral issue there would be no laws abridging the issues.\n\nWhat you are looking at is the Republican party platform.  There are real conservatives out here and we want real change.
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I don't think it's that they're afraid, but that they don't believe it's "right".  They use the Bible as a reference, saying that a marriage is a union of man and wife.  Or something like that.  haha, I'm registered republican, but not really sure on this issue (I'm more fiscally conservative than socially conservative -- I vote the way I feel is right).  With Conservatives, I think a lot of their beliefs stem from traditional Christian beliefs.  Me, personally, I just believe in having morals, that is, treating people with as much respect as I can.  \n\nBut if you're in love, it's not the government's right to tell you who you can or cannot marry (given that the person is not in you immediate family!).
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(I'm assuming the question about conservatives is merely an example of the type of speech you are really asking about.)\n\nIt's because reasoned political discourse is rare in our society.  Intelligent debate has long ago been drowned out by name-calling, sound bites, and invective hurled from both sides of the political spectrum.  When you have the Bill O'Reillys and the Michael Moores casting the other side as traitors, crooks, liars, and hypocrites, is it any wonder that the general populace does the same?  \n\nThere is no willingness to believe that the other side has good intentions, or might have good ideas.  The Right has done a wonderful job turning "Liberal" into a sneer word, while the left increasingly says "Conservative" with a roll-eyed "You know how *they* are" expression.  \n\nSo let me see if I can sum up politics in America as succinctly as I can.  Republicans are evil, authoritative bastards who want to ram Christian living down the nation's throat while simultaneously raping the environment, turning business loose to squeeze every last dime out of the poor man, cutting any aid to the needy, and giving the rich whichever laws they can pay for.  Democrats are evil, tree-hugging socialists who want to spread homosexuality, tax the rich man into oblivion so they can give free money to welfare mothers, burn the flag, have free abortions for all, and they want God dead.  Moderate politicians are those who haven't been entirely bought and paid for yet, while moderate voters are just indecisive wimps who haven't seen that Our Side is superior in every way.  The fringe parties like the Greens and the Constitution Party are just nutballs that don't matter anyway.
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Conservative.  Conservative people follow like sheep.  Liberal people are more interested in character.  Initially he would have more success with the sheep.
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Evidently, the conservatives have a different view of morality than we liberals do. To them, it's far worse to get a head job from someone other than your wife and then lie about it than it is to send thousands off to die in a war that was based on a lie.
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ProfAdam after looking at what you do for a living it doesn't surprise me!  You, like me, have gotten into a career where people come first. Not money, power, or politics.  Your field comes right down to the people and often fights the stereotypes against those people you service (I'm currently a Youth Vocational Counselor, all the kids I work with have some kind of criminal background, so I constantly have to tell folks that they aren't all little punks with no goals in life).\n\nYou become more liberal because you see what harm is being done to people in all walks of life.  If it got to the point where people in all walks of life had "Too Much" freedom which was a hindrance, I think you would become more conservative in your views, solely to protect those people, or to work in their best interests.\n\nIn a similar fashion, I don't understand why anyone would choose to follow Bush or his agendas, but only because i see what it is doing to people and this country.  I choose to stand in the middle as an American with views that will neither be called democrat or republican. I stand in the middle for America and the love I have for my country.\n\nAnd yes I'm basically stalking your questions now, if I ever see one I have a good answer too (opinion on) then I'm writing yet another novel.  Geez I have work to do too.
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Most people start out as liberal when they're young. When they begin to amass things in their life - family, house, savings - most then gradually become conservative as they recognize that they had to work hard for what they have and they don't think it fair that other people should share when they didn't work for it (the ant and the grasshopper story is a good example).\n\nThe Democrats used to be the conservative party. During the late 60s and 70s, the parties gradually switched orientation so that now the Republicans are conservative. It has been an interesting time watching this happen over my lifetime.
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I agree with your basic premise, but I want to limit your opinion a little bit.  Not all conservative people want to impose those bans in the US.  Many, many conservative people just want the government to leave them alone- they want less regulation.  These people are what are thought of as classical conservatives.  \n\nThe new conservatives (the religious right) are the ones that want to regulate morality in this way.  I disagree with it entirely.  People should be able to do as they please.  Women should be able to control their own bodies and gay people should be able to have the same rights in marriage as anyone else.
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Your question is flawed, you see, conservatives never grow up, they are still whiney, fantasy filled children.
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Yes, there is a huge contradiction. It appears to me that conservatives want the government to regulate everyone else's private lives. i.e. private acts between consenting adults. The conservatives don't want government regulating how much a business can rip someone off or how much they can pollute the environment.
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Excellent question! \n\nI remember when the word 'conservative' referred to the far right of the Republican party. And there were liberals in both parties. Then in the 90s this begin to change with the entire Republican party moving to the right.\n\nIf you didn't move to the right then you were pushed out basically. I'd say this transformation occurred during the Newt Gingrich era. I actually used to be a Republican but I am very liberal when it comes to the rights of others. IE, gay marriage, discrimination, etc... I first moved independent then finally ended up completely democrat. There just isn't any place for me in the Republican party any longer. They carry too many biased prejudices; but even more than that, my liberal way of thinking can't accept their somehow literally believing they have the RIGHT to dictate to others how to live.\n\nAnyways, good question and hope that helps. Basically there are no liberal republicans any longer. There are the conservatives who are to the right then there are the neocons which are far right extremist.