For the record; I'm a social liberal. But a fiscal conservative.
My problem with so-called conservatives in the US is that they long ago lost the ability to discern the difference between a national conservative fiscal and economic policy and the abdication of economic and fiscal policy to corporate interests.
There hasn't been a truly fiscal conservative policy in the US since before Reagan was elected. Nor, since then ecomic policy that wasn't abdicated to the short term needs of international corporations who have demonstrated little ability to look into the long term economic health of the nation as a whole.
Social conservatism was adopted as the lead flag by the political elite of the right to obscure the reality that they had abandoned fiscal and economic conservatism to rely on the belief that "The markets will work their magic".
And as much as evidence has demonstrated that this belief is not wholly supported by results .... it is still a notion to which most cling.
My problem with so-called conservatives in the US is that they long ago lost the ability to discern the difference between a national conservative fiscal and economic policy and the abdication of economic and fiscal policy to corporate interests.
There hasn't been a truly fiscal conservative policy in the US since before Reagan was elected. Nor, since then ecomic policy that wasn't abdicated to the short term needs of international corporations who have demonstrated little ability to look into the long term economic health of the nation as a whole.
Social conservatism was adopted as the lead flag by the political elite of the right to obscure the reality that they had abandoned fiscal and economic conservatism to rely on the belief that "The markets will work their magic".
And as much as evidence has demonstrated that this belief is not wholly supported by results .... it is still a notion to which most cling.