Political Ideology thread: Progressive Conservatism

[justhookit 4,180]

3 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

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Cilantro vs Trump vs Biden. It’s cilantro in a landslide and 2nd and 3rd too close to call but way behind. Probably in the others receiving votes category.

Went to Gaff  patio this evening. Whole table is Trump and so is at least 90% of the people I know here. I recorded the debate knowing we wouldn’t be home in time. It was somehow worse than I thought it would be and I expected a clusterfuck of epic proportions.

Anyway now that it’s out of the way I’m moving on to more meaningful shit like the TCU game 🤘

[elfenix 34,171]

Yes, as well as Angela Merkel and Theresa May.

The former looks for the easy way out of everything and the latter was a joke.

And both are left of US politics.

[elfenix 34,171]

 

 

 

I really like this take a lot, however I don't think that intrinsically Progressive Conservatism has much to do with budgetary conservatism or "fiscal conservatism" it's more about policy, don't make policy unless we need it, but if we move forward with policy do that policy in a way that is measurable and not trying to solve the entire problem (big problems) in one go.

 

Because we've spent 70 years dawdling and being lied to by the API, incrementalism isn't going to fix global warming, so isn't a solution. Incrementalism gave us Obamacare, which the right has sought to tear up from the moment Obama was elected as socialist or some other bullshit boogieman.

 

There aren't a lot of pro-active things government does, so I have no idea what "don't make policy unless we need it" means.

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

It would be nice to have an ideological realignment on the right that rejects a lot of historically bad conservative ideas like trickle down, deregulation, science denialism, and fundamentalist Christianity, but that’s kind of their bag.  

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,843]

Wrong thread

 

 

Edited September 30, 2020 by Longhorn_Fan68