In our society, every day more and more people are transferring to a liberal point of view, their minds painting a picture of conservatives to be horrid bastards who only care about their own values and about pushing their own agendas. They think that just because they disagree with a liberal on a solution. They believe that conservatives don't care about all the people in poverty, dying of starvation and diseases. That they place their own interests before that of the entire country or the "greater good." That conservatism is basically modern day fascism. These are in fact the biggest misconceptions about conservatism and though I am not a conservative myself, I feel it is important to defend their actual positions.
Firstly if someone disagrees with the big government solutions to poverty doesn't mean they hate the poor. If they disagree about a single payer health care doesn't mean they hate the old and sick. If they believe that America should enforce their immigration laws doesn't mean that they hate all immigrants, and the list goes on and on. As for impoverished people, the conservative viewpoint is just the opposite. The strongly believe in the use of the free market to create not only just jobs, but also for the poor themselves to to become owners and employers. This also isn't a view saying that there should be no safety net for someone who isn't able to care for themselves, but those who are poor need to have a way to be able to work themselves out of their poverty, and the government themselves can't provide them.
Also conservatives don't always hold their personal agendas in front of others, and especially not for the sake of the whole country. There are many republicans that I personally know that would have greatly benefitted from Bernie Sanders's political scheme but chose not to in order to preserve the well being of the entire country. This isn't even to mention the fact that even Aristotle the biggest advocate of classical republicanism stated that this type of common good model because there everyone there have the same fundamental, but this could never work modern day, especially in our country where we are divided on almost every topic. These same kind of liberals are the ones that also associate conservatism with fascism parties like the Nazi group. During the Nazi regime they had a huge dependency on the production industry and so with the governments socialist approach to the production line they merely changed the direction of the ongoing chaos by increasing the production value of certain products but wrecking havoc on the entire industry.
The other day I was reading this liberal article that a lot of people that I know whom are hardcore liberals have been referencing on social media. Basically the girl who wrote the article talked about how she says that she doesn't mind paying an extra few percent on her total payment as tax if it means the server can feed their family. She goes on to say that she doesn't mind paying a little extra in taxes so that it can go to public schools, to pay for the healthcare of poor people, and to help other profit free institutions continue. Then she says if everyone payed a little more in taxes then minimum wage as well as other things will raise. The rest of the article is spent on demonizing the right wing and her saying that she is disgusted by conservatives lack of being able to pay a little more so that some people can survive. Personally I find two big things wrong with this, one, all the statistics biased to raise an agendum that they want to provide. The other one is believing the government is able to solve larger problems manifesting in society. The main problem I have with this is that if she wants to help the server she should give her that extra money as a tip, if I was in a suitable position I would do the same thing as would most republicans I know. The difference comes in giving it to the government, they have no belief in the government to efficiently take that money from me and give it to that worker in need.
So really, they don't hate democracy. They don't loathe social workers. They don't have a prejiduce poverty or healthcare, nor anything else. Really it's usually to the contrary their views. Their main problem lies in the government, which unlike conservatism, it doesn't have any fallacies, any of the seeming misconceptions are sadly true.
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