• hdnsmbt@lemmy.world
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    I wouldn’t call it “thinking”. Conservatives react more than anything. They react to progress (–> hate), change (–> hate) and things they’re not familiar with (–> hate). They don’t pro-actively think per se.

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          They were wrong, of course, but it wasn’t that long ago that economic conservatives were a thing - the majority, even. Now the culture war brain rot they had to deploy to deflect from how ineffective things like trickle-down economics are have consumed them completely.

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            How far back do I have to go to find non bigoted Conservatives? Iike to watch old cspan debates as far back as the 90s with Gingrich it was already hate, fear and culture war. I’m trying to find these mythical Conservatives that want to balance the budget without discriminating or putting some minority group down…