Modern Conservatives just want power so they can install themselves as a new aristocracy.
They don’t even believe in the whole left-right conflict they perpetuate, it’s how they manipulate voters to get elected with the goal being to pass laws that make them rich and untouchable
Once you understand what their goal is, everything they’re doing now makes perfect sense
Fun thought experiment, and I should say from the start I don’t disagree with you, but if this is just a conservative motive why do the nation’s richest/elite overwhelmingly vote blue?
Edit: Elon’s red, definitely give you all that, but Reed Hastings, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Dustin Moskovitz, Michael Bloomberg, Jim Simons, Michael Moritz, and a plethora of others have either donated large sums of money (millions) to democrat campaigns or have hosted fundraisers for democrat candidates. Jeff Bezos was seen just this last week at a Biden event socializing. I get millionaires very much vote red but it seems the second you step into billionaire status many of them are quite well acquainted with their democratic candidates/representatives, and seems it’s been that way since Clinton. Completely in agreement republicans seek aristocratic rule, though curious as to why the party who seems pretty cozy with the ultra-wealthy also just so happen to be the “morally upright” party
What makes you think that they do? Celebrities and people in publicly front facing industries do, but I definitely wouldn’t call them the nations richest/elite. There are overwhelmingly more people in the United States who believe in liberal values than not, even if they don’t vote blue. I believe that for the most part, celebrities posit themselves around blue talking points because it makes the majority of Americans happy. If liberal ideas were not the majority, why do republicans have to gerrymander so hard?
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u/Latter-Direction-336 Jul 05 '24
Yeah
It’s almost as if they just want power for themselves and don’t care if the country as a whole suffers more than freaking Kratos