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To be frank, if you think you know "good conservatives," that means they're good to YOU.

They're "nice" folks who watch your pets, cheer at your kids' sports, make a casserole when you're bereaved, always ask how your family is.

Because either you're like them, or you're "one of the good ones."
Salma Typhii @Epidatageek
After mulling the "good conservatives" question all day I have decided that anyone who doesn't think people who have uteruses can control their own bodies and/or BBIMP and LGBTQIA+ are not 100% allowed to live their lives as openly and sloppily as cis het white people can't be a good person
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If you are "not like those other ones," let me disabuse you of the notion that they will ever give a rat's ass about you and your family in the voting booth.

You "aren't like the others," so you fit their expectations, but they will still vote for politicians and policies to take away your rights.
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And they will do it -- even knowing it will hurt you and yours -- because they care more about controlling and restricting everyone who isn't like them.

Not you. You're okay. All the other ones. You know what I mean. You're not like them.

You know your place.
07:13 PM - Sep 22, 2023
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Then they aren't conservatives.

I mean, maybe that's the label they apply to themselves, but they would not be accepted in modern (Trumpian) conservative circles.
In response to Sharon Oates.
07:20 PM - Sep 22, 2023
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I agree with you. They have always been registered R's and still are. They were discusted with tfg and feel the same way about the R's in DC now.
07:29 PM - Sep 22, 2023
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I have similar folks in my life.

TFG definitely created a "strange bedfellows" situation, because those folks will vote Dem (or not vote, which I'm good with) because they hate him or care enough about the Constitution to understand the threat. But I will never consider them "good" people.
07:33 PM - Sep 22, 2023
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And, honestly, abortion is the weakest conservative value, as we've seen since Dobbs. (Mostly because that one actually impacts them.)

How do they feel about welfare, BLM, reparations, border security, DREAMers, etc? Where do they stand on marriage equality, drag shows, trans youth?
07:24 PM - Sep 22, 2023
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