I am actually drawn by the theories of conservatism - pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and don't wait for the government to do everything for you. If the religious right who want to dictate my morality and not my government's actions hadn't shanghaied the Republican Party, I might have hung around after the Reagan luster began to wear off when I emerged from high school.
But (and here is a big but), it's amazing how many people who call themselves conservative (we presume that they are using the term in its classical sense) are actually all about big government when it comes to their pet projects like "defense," ($480+ billion we don't have for a war no one can make sense of? No problem! Put it on my card!) and "illegal imimgration." Here they are all about big government projects to build walls and pay for monster enforcement, even to the point of arresting and deporting 12 million people, a project so ambitious it makes prison-building contractors everywhere tingle. Check out this self-proclaimed "less government is better" type spreading the same out-of-context rumors and silly arguments while simultaneously saying he's for smaller government. Somebody wake me up, I'm having a nightmare.
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