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What
Conservatives are saying
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What
others
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Government today is a net negative for humanity,
it does more harm than good, cannot continue to grow, and is not
sustainable in the long run. It should be reduced, decentralized and put
more power and decision making back at the state level |
Conservatives want no laws, total anarchy, and
chaos. Government is the root of all evil. |
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Welfare statism entrenches poverty, creates
intergenerational dependency, and endangers ever expanding parasitism.
Poverty is empirically reduced by economic freedom. The best way to help
the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty. |
Oh My God! Conservatives don’t care about
poverty. You hate poor people! You think they are lazy leeches who
should die in the gutter. |
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Freedom is precious in itself, and should be
real factor in any cost-benefit analysis |
Conservatives don’t care if the world is plunged
into chaos and destitute misery. |
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Wealth is not a fixed variable or a zero sum to
be distributed. It is dynamic, emergent, and created by individuals in
real time. You help everyone by making the pie bigger. |
Conservatives hate minorities. You want the rich
to stay rich and the poor to get poorer.
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Using institutional coercion to force people
into collectives is neither moral nor efficient. Humans are social
creatures and naturally cooperate with each other voluntarily.
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Conservatives think that people should not work
together. |
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The government is just people, just as human as
the rest of us. They have incentive & calculation problems that lead to
resource misallocation and distortion. Government failure > market
failure |
Conservatives think that Obama is Stalin and
everyone in government wants to kill you and rape you daughter. You
think the free market is 100% perfect utopia. This is the real world. |
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Obama’s policies of wealth redistribution,
increasing debt, and government growth are not what the founding fathers
envisioned. |
Conservatives are a racists and hate Obama
because he is black. He can do nothing right because of his skin color. |