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A '''conservative''' is someone who promotes moral and economic values beneficial to all. A conservative is willing to learn and advocate the insights of [[economics]] and the logic of the [[Bible]] for the benefit of everyone else.  A conservative favors conserving value by not giving handouts to anyone who does not really need them.
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A '''conservative''' (alternately called a left-winger or [[leftism|leftist]]) is someone who advocates an increase in [[government]] spending, power, and control, such as [[ObamaCare]]. conservatives often support the [[censorship]] and [[denial]] of biblical [[Christianity]]<ref>http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=2062</ref> and consistently [[conservative]] viewpoints. conservatives who are a part of the [[secular left]] prefer [[atheism]]/[[agnosticism]] over the Christian [[faith]], as [[atheism]] has no objective morality to hinder their big government plans.<ref>http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/232212/fox-contributor-claims-rolling-stone-uva-story-part-of-conservative-plot-to-romanticize-being-a-victim-of-rape/</ref>
  
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A conservative typically adheres to principles of personal [[responsibility]], moral values, and [[limited government]], agreeing with [[George Washington]]'s [[Farewell Address]] that "[[religion]] and [[morality]] are indispensable supports" to political prosperity.<ref>[http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/49.htm United States Department of State] George Washington, farewell address, 1796</ref><ref>[[Merriam-Webster]]'s Online Dictionary has the following definition of conservative: "tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions : TRADITIONAL"[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/conservative] Therefore, a conservative Christian would be one that tends to adhere to the morally sound doctrines of the early Christianity and [[Judeo-Christian]] values.</ref>
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Increasingly, conservatives side with the [[homosexual agenda]], including [[same-sex marriage|homosexual "marriage"]].  conservatives favor a [[welfare state]] where people receive endless entitlements without working.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/05/23/reform-conservatives-tackle-the-failed-conservative-welfare-state/ Reform conservatives tackle the failed conservative welfare state], [[Washington Post]]</ref>  The conservative ideology has degenerated into economically unsound views and [[conservative bigotry|intolerant ideology]]. All conservatives support, in knee-jerk fashion, the opposite of [[conservative]] principles, while lacking an actual ideology or values of their own.<ref>http://eaglerising.com/22901/conservative-crybabies-get-offended-by-caitlyn-jenner-costume/</ref> [[Secular left|Many of them]] [[Secularized Language|cannot understand]] Christian language.<ref>Williams, Thomas D., Ph.D. (December 26, 2016). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/26/religiously-ignorant-conservatives-mistake-new-king-at-christmas-for-donald-trump/ Religiously-Ignorant conservatives Mistake ‘New King’ at Christmas for Donald Trump]. ''Breitbart''. Retrieved December 26, 2016.</ref> conservatives are especially prone to believe [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]], particularly those that denigrate people or views they disagree with.
  
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Religious conservatism is a big driver of [[social conservatism]]. Religious conservatism is growing in the world and it is affecting politics (see: [[Religious conservatism and politics]]).  
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Polling data has consistently shown that a larger percentage of Americans identify as conservative, rather than as conservative, by a margin of 35% to 26% as of 2017; while the gap between self-identified conservatives and self-identified conservatives has been narrowing in recent years,<ref>[http://news.gallup.com/poll/225074/conservative-lead-ideology-down-single-digits.aspx Conservative Lead in U.S. Ideology is Down to Single Digits]</ref> conservatives and "progressives" oftentimes falsely claim that conservatives outnumber conservatives.
  
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[[Phil Crane]], the leading conservative congressman in the [[House]] from 1969 to 2005, urged people to make the world a better place than where they found it, and quoted frequently from the [[Bible]] in pursuit of that goal.<ref>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-phil-crane-obituary-20141109-story.html</ref>
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==Political positions and practices==
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'''conservatives support the following political positions and practices''':<ref>http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2014/02/21/conservative-students-have-a-funny-definition-of-diversity-n1798157</ref>
  
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Former President [[Ronald Reagan]] said, "The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom."<ref>http://www.reason.com/news/show/29318.html</ref>
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* Wasting money on ineffective government programs (the significant economic problems in the [[Eurozone]] due to government debt will no doubt increasingly discredit this aspect of conservative ideology and make things more difficult for advocates of conservative economic ideologies)
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[[File:460px-Calvin Coolidge photo portrait head and shoulders.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Calvin Coolidge]], the 30th President of the United States, was a conservative who said, "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."]]
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*Many conservatives are increasingly attempting to limit free speech.<ref name="The slow death of free speech">[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/20/suzanne-fields-how-the-conservative-left-is-killing-fre/ The slow death of free speech] by Suzanne Fields, ''Washington Times'', 2015</ref><ref name="washingtonexaminer.com">[http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-does-the-left-want-to-suppress-free-speech/article/2532270 Why does the left want to suppress free speech?] by Michael Barone, Washington Examiner, 2013</ref>
  
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==Goals and principles==
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*In the [[United States]], the [[Democrat Party]] and conservatives have moved so [[far left]] that there are now political figures involved in Democrat politics who are sympathetic to [[Communism]]. For example, [[Anita Dunn]], an American political strategist who served as [[White House]] Communications Director from April through November 2009 in [[Obama Administration]], said that [[Mao Zedong]] was her favorite political philosopher.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/10/17/obama-debate-advisor-anita-dunn-mao/ Obama Debate Coach Named Mao as Favorite Political Philosopher] by Ben Shapiro, Bretbart News, 2012</ref> [[Bernie Sanders]], a leading candidate in the Democrat Party's 2016 presidential nomination, although he is an adherent of [[social democracy]], he also has a history of involvement with [[Marxism|Marxist]] organizations.<ref>[http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/ Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist], New York Post by Paul Sperry, New York Post,January 16, 2016</ref><ref name="IS BERNIE SANDERS A COMMUNIST">[http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/is-bernie-sanders-a-communist/ IS BERNIE SANDERS A COMMUNIST?] by Joseph Farah, WND, 2016</ref><ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-d-ackerman/history-lesson-bernie-san_b_9355082.html History Lesson: Bernie Sanders is no 'Communist,' and 'Democratic Socialists' are as American as Apple Pie], Huffington Post, 2012</ref> Sanders shocked his fellow conservatives by putting up a [[Soviet Union]] flag in his Senate office.<ref>[http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/ Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist], New York Post by Paul Sperry, New York Post, January 16, 2016</ref> In 1998, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which was founded by Sanders, had the song ''Red Revolution'' (a song advocating communist revolution) featured on a website that they shared with the Democratic Socialists of America.<ref name="IS BERNIE SANDERS A COMMUNIST"/>
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[[File:Hillary Clinton.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Hillary Clinton]] ]]
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* In 1993, Hugh E. Rodham, father of [[Hillary Clinton]], made the statement about the Democrat Party, which is a party strongly supported by conservatives, “Democrats are one step short of Communism.”<ref name="constitution.com">[http://constitution.com/democrat-party-overrun-communist/  Before his death in 1993, Hugh E. Rodham, father of Hillary Clinton, made the statement, “Democrats are one step short of Communism.”], Constitution.com</ref> In 1988, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), after decades of running their own presidential candidates, stopped running presidential candidates because the gap between Democrats and American communists had grown smaller.<ref name="youtube.com">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pjFfE1MNFk Communists, the Democrat Party and Snopes]</ref> In 2016, the CPUSA urged people not to vote for Donald Trump even if they disliked Hillary Clinton (an indirect endorsement of Clinton).<ref name="youtube.com"/>  Although there are still some very substantial differences between Communists and Democrats/conservatives, the line between Communists/Democrats/conservatives continues to blur in the United States.<ref name="constitution.com"/> Ironically, the leading Communist country in the world, [[Communist Party of China|Communist China]], has moved farther away from Communism and now has a mixed economy of [[capitalism]] and state owned enterprises.<ref>[China's The Most Viciously Free Market Economy On The Planet Right Now], Forbes, 2015</ref>
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* Denial of science<ref>[http://www.postlibertarian.com/2012/09/why-do-conservatives-hate-science/ Why Do conservatives Hate Science?]</ref> (especially [[creation science]])
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* Government's ability to solve economic problems<ref name=studentNews>[http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/conservative-vs-conservative-beliefs Conservative vs. conservative Beliefs]</ref>
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* [[conservative Hypocrisy|Hypocrisy]]<ref>http://images.sodahead.com/polls/002849963/3038298682_real_verse_conservative_hypocrisy_xlarge.png</ref>
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* The belief that Islamic terrorism is not a huge threat, and that the main reason for Islamic extremists' hostility towards America is because of bad foreign policy <ref name=studentNews />
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* Brainwashing voters with propaganda
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* [[conservative hedonism|Hedonism]]
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* Taxpayer-funded and state-encouraged [[abortion]]
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* Rejection of Biblical standards
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* Naive acceptance of the [[Idea of Progress]]
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* [[Hate|Hatred]]<ref>[http://www.conservapedia.com/conservative_hate_speech]</ref>
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* [[Murder]] (through abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia)
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* Censorship<ref>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/07/watch-what-you-say-the-new-conservative-power-elite-won-t-tolerate-dissent.html Watch What You Say, The New conservative Power Elite Won’t Tolerate Dissent], [[The Daily Beast]]</ref>
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* Socialism<ref>[http://famguardian.org/subjects/Politics/Articles/conservatives.htm 60 Hard Truths about "conservatives"]</ref>
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* Unsuccessful Keynesian economics as opposed to sound free-market economics
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* Crying instead of accepting reality<ref>http://conservativetears.net/</ref>
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* Cessation of teacher-led [[prayer]] in classrooms and school/state-sponsored religious events.
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* Ending Western morality<ref>[http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/07/13/5_ways_conservativeism_destroys_virtue]</ref>
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* [[Gun control]]
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* Pseudo-intellectualism<ref>[http://eljam.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-hate-pseudo-intellectuals.html I hate pseudo-intellectuals]</ref>
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* Affirmative action<ref name=studentNews />
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* Opposition to government regulation or restriction of obscenity, pornography and violence in video games as a [[First Amendment]] right<ref>The [[Warren Court]], led by '''conservative''' Justices [[William O. Douglas]], [[Hugo Black]], [[Abe Fortas]], [[William Brennan]] and Chief Justice [[Earl Warren]] issued 36 decisions granting [[First Amendment]] rights to obscenity and pornography.  These decisions remain fully supported by conservatives today.</ref>
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* Authoritarian government<ref>[http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/07/conservative_authori.html conservative Authoritarianism]</ref>
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* [[Authoritarianism]] mindset<ref>Richarson, Bradford (June 11, 2016). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/11/conservatives-not-conservatives-more-likely-possess-psy/ Study from 2012 now corrected to show conservatives, not conservatives, more authoritarian]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved November 29, 2018.</ref>
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* Government-funded medical care, such as [[Obamacare]]
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* [[conservative Fascism|Fascist tendencies]] (see also: [[Homo-fascism]])
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* [[evolution and conservativeism|Belief in evolution]]
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* Destroying the Christian foundations on which America was built.
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* Destroying conservative family values and replacing them with immoral [[Hollywood values]], such as abortion
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* Brainwashing through government-censored [[public education]]
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* Limiting personal freedom.<ref>[http://conservative.wikia.com/wiki/Democratic_Party Democratic Party]</ref> conservative support for gun control is an example of this.
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* High progressive taxes<ref>[http://www.ijreview.com/2014/07/157256-course-lower-state-taxes-helps-growth-studys-results-prove/ This Nationwide Study Challenges Everything conservatives Have Told You About Raising Taxes]</ref> as a form of class warfare against wealthy business owners.<ref>[http://www.conservapedia.com/Progressive_taxation Progressive taxation]</ref>
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* Placement of men and women in the same jobs in the [[military]]
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* Slowly eroding the U.S. through [[Progressivism]].<ref>[http://americanprogressivism.wordpress.com/ What Is Progressivism?]</ref>
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* Legalized [[same-sex marriage|same-sex "marriage"]] and homosexual adoption
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* Failed [[tax and spend]] economics
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* Smearing<ref>http://www.truthnation.com/trumps-slogan-is-a-throwback-to-reagan-and-conservatives-are-furious-make-america-great-again/</ref>
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* Libertine sexual morality. See: [[Evolutionary belief and sexual immorality]] and [[conservative Christianity and marital infidelity]]
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* Economic sector regulations<ref name=studentNews />
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* Denial of conservative roles in history. For example, conservatives frequently claim<ref>[http://www.deism.com/washington.htm George Washington and Deism]</ref> that George Washington was a deist when he was actually a devout Episcopalian.
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* Spreading of [[political correctness]]
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* Government mass-surveillance
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* Non-syndicalist [[labor union]]s
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* Many conservatives engage in [[racism]]<ref>[https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/03/26/25-examples-of-conservative-racism-in-quotes-n1549044 25 Examples of conservative Racism in Quotes]</ref>
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* [[Bigotry]]
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* [[Trump Derangement Syndrome]]
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* Advocating incorrect policies<ref>[https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/04/conservatives-smug-condescending]</ref>
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* Encouraging promiscuity and immorality through sexual education rather than teaching [[abstinence]] from premarital sex<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286671,00.html Democrats Aim To Kill Abstinence-Only Program Funding], [[Fox News]], Monday, June 25, 2007</ref>
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* A "[[living Constitution]]" that is reinterpreted as conservatives prefer, rather than how it is thought to have been intended.
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* Government programs to [[rehabilitate criminals]]
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* Slander<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Slander-conservative-About-American-Right/dp/1400049520</ref>
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* Gender "Equality"
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* [[Anti-Americanism]]
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* Abolition of the [[death penalty]]
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* [[Environmentalism]]<ref>and environmental organizations, for example [[Greenpeace]]</ref>
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* [[Globalism]], [[one-world government]], and opposition to national [[sovereignty]]
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* Wiping out national identity, which unites a country and makes it distinct from other countries<ref>Kraychik, Robert (July 24, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/07/24/dennis-prager-leftists-dont-believe-in-national-identities/ Dennis Prager: Leftists ‘Don’t Believe in National Identities’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 26, 2018.</ref>
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* Support for open borders with no border controls or [[border wall]]s
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* Support for [[amnesty]] for illegals, and for [[Voter fraud|non-citizens voting in U.S. elections]]<ref>Murphy, James (July 27, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/29650-conservative-cities-want-voting-rights-for-non-citizens-even-illegal-ones conservative Cities Want Voting Rights for Non-Citizens — Even Illegal Ones]. ''The New American''. Retrieved July 28, 2018.</ref><ref>Dinan, Stephen (October 18, 2018). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/18/texas-democrats-ask-noncitizens-register-vote/ Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved October 18, 2018.</ref>
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* Unconstitutionally mandated separation of church and state.
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* Opposition to full private property rights.<ref>For example, the conservative wing of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] issued the 5-4 [[Kelo v. City of New London]] decision authorizing the taking of private property by government in order to give the property to another private entity rather than convert it to a public use.</ref>
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* Reinstatement of the [[Fairness Doctrine]]
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* Welfare
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* Opposition to domestic wire-tapping as authorized in the [[Patriot Act]]
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* Oppression of business rather than a laissez-faire capitalist economy
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* American conservatives often have opposition to the U.S. Constitution and/or are often ignorant of what the U.S. Constitution states. conservatives seek to expand federal power at the expense of local government and silence the conservatives who hold them back, violating the 10th and 1st Amendments respectively.
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* [[conservative Denial|Denial]] of traditional [[gender roles]]
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* Support of financially irresponsible policies
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* Encouragement of [[Global Warming|"global warming" alarmism]]
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* Rejection of logical<ref>[http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140711/OPINION/140719804/2011/OPINION conservatives are illogical, and good at it]</ref> standards
  
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Specifically, conservatives seek or support:
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'''Some conservatives support:'''
  
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* [[Limited government]] and balanced budgets
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* High tolerance of government corruption as long as it is done by other conservatives <ref>http://www.infowars.com/correction-conservatives-not-conservatives-are-psychotic</ref>
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* [[Capitalism]] and [[free market]]s
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* [[Tyranny]] to varying degrees.  In lesser forms, a [[Nanny State]] is preferred<ref>http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/george-iii</ref>
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* [[Classroom prayer]]
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* [[Elitism]]<ref>https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130604122602AANvhvF</ref> See: [[conservative elite]]
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* Respect for human life and prohibition of [[abortion]]
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* [[Treason]]<ref>http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/mikes-blog-round-25</ref>
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* [[Abstinence]] education
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* [[Anti-Semitism]] (strong support for "[[Palestine]]", opposition to the state of [[Israel]], and even [[Holocaust denial]])
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* Traditional [[marriage]], not [[same-sex "marriage"]]
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* [[Genocide]] and [[eugenics]] in the form of [[abortion]] (see [[Abortion and eugenics]] and [[Margaret Sanger]])
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* The concept of retribution for crimes, including the [[death penalty]] for heinous murders proven beyond reasonable doubt
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* Enforced celebration of homosexuality<ref>http://letterstotheeditorblog.dallasnews.com/2014/04/weve-gone-from-tolerance-of-homosexuality-to-forced-celebration-of-it.html/</ref>
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* [[Family values]], including traditional relationships and division of labor within the household
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* Pedophilia<ref>[http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/conservatives-hard-pressed-make-pedophilia-legal-get-ready-sharia-law/]</ref>
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* Respect for differences between men and women, boys and girls
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* Bestiality as a human right<ref>[http://www.peterheck.com/libtree/liberty_tree/view/1677/conservatives_repeal_ban_on_bestiality_in_the_military conservatives Repeal Ban on Bestiality in the Military]</ref> See: [[conservativeism and bestiality]]
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* Laws against [[pornography]]
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* [[Sadism]]<ref>http://catholiccitizens.org/views/66534/uses-disgust-%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8/</ref>
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* [[First Amendment]] rights to [[free speech]] and [[religious freedom]]
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* [[Obesity]] via the [[Fat acceptance movement]] <ref>http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/rosie-odonnell-said-she-will-leave-america-youll-love-the-reason/</ref>
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* The [[Second Amendment]] right to keep and bear arms
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* Robbery and other forms of crime (see [[Gun control]])
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* Economic allocative efficiency (as opposed to popular equity)
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* A strong tendency to ban or censor things they do not like and make things they like compulsory – in other words, having the government control everything.<ref>Multiple references:
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*[https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/13-things-conservatives-want-to-ban/ 13 Things conservatives Want To Ban]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
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* Private medical care and retirement plans
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*Crowder, Steven (June 24, 2015). [https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/top-10-things-conservatives-want-to-ban/ Top 10 Things conservatives Want to Ban]. ''Louder with Crowder''. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
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* Canceling failed social support programs
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*Clayson, Dennis (May 16, 2018). [https://wcfcourier.com/news/opinion/clayson/if-conservatives-don-t-like-it-they-ban-it/article_8ef54d06-5f65-11df-9f06-001cc4c002e0.html If conservatives don't like it, they ban it]. ''The Courier''. Retrieved November 29, 2018.</ref>
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* Opposition to [[globalism]], [[one-world government]], and the [[War on Sovereignty]]
 
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* Economic nationalism over globalist [[free trade|"free" trade]]
 
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* Valuing [[patriotism]], [[self-governance]], and [[sovereignty]]
 
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* [[Border wall|Border security]] and enforcement of strong [[immigration]] laws, opposition to mass migration and [[open borders]]
 
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* Rejection of [[junk science]] such as [[evolution]] and [[global warming]]
 
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* Minimal taxation
 
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* [[Federalism]] (Separation of powers among the National, State and Local governments)
 
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* Favoring [[states' rights]] over federal power, while accepting the Constitutional role of the federal government, and favoring [[subsidiarity]]
 
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* Opposition to [[big government]] and the [[Nanny State]]
 
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[[Movement conservatives]] are those who accept the logic of conservatism across-the-board, and stand up for its powerful principles despite [[liberal]] ridicule.  Movement conservative activists in the U.S. include:
 
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*[[Larry McDonald]], Congressman, on board [[KAL 007]] when shot down by the Soviets near [[Moneron Island]].
 
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*[[Jesse Helms]], Senator, specialist in foreign policy
 
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*[[Steve King]], Congressman
 
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*[[Pat Buchanan]], commentator and presidential candidate
 
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*[[Thomas Sowell]], economist and commentator
 
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*[[Jerry Falwell]], religion
 
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*[[Tucker Carlson]], commentator
 
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*[[Ann Coulter]], commentator
 
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*[[Roy Moore]], judge
 
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''See also:'' [[conservative intolerance]] and [[conservative bigotry]]
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Periodically a conservative has been elected [[President of the United States of America|President of the United States]].  The most prominent conservative presidents include:
 
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*[[James Monroe]] (1817–1825)
 
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*[[Grover Cleveland]] (1885–1889, 1893–1897)
 
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*[[Calvin Coolidge]] (1923–1929)
 
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Many modern conservatives have a tendency of to be intolerant of ideas that contradict [[conservativeism|conservative ideology]] which increasingly includes many strange notions<ref>Byas, Steve (August 8, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/29740-the-growing-intolerance-of-the-left The Growing Intolerance of the Left]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 8, 2018.</ref> (see: [[conservative intolerance]]). For example, radical [[feminism|feminists]] commonly claim that one is not born a man or woman, but one becomes a man or woman through [[gender]] socialization.<ref>[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-gender/#GenSocCon - Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender - Gender socialization], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</ref>
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[[Image:Coulter2006.jpg|thumb|right|220px|[[Anne Coulter]] on the ''Tonight Show with Jay Leno''. Leftists prevented Anne Coulter from speaking at [[University of California, Berkeley]] through threats of violence.<ref name="foxnews.com">[http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/26/ann-coulter-cancels-berkeley-event-amid-protests.html Ann Coulter cancels Berkeley event amid protests, says decision 'a dark day for free speech in America'], Fox News, 2017</ref> ]]
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A Pew Research study found that “consistent conservatives” were most likely to block others on [[social media]] for disagreeing with them politically.<ref>[https://hotair.com/archives/2014/10/21/pew-survey-consistent-conservatives-most-likely-to-block-others-on-social-media-for-disagreeing-with-them-politically/ Pew survey: “Consistent conservatives” most likely to block others on social media for disagreeing with them politically]</ref>
  
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{{See also|Left-wing violence in the Trump era}}
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As noted above, may conservatives are increasingly attempting to limit free speech.<ref name="The slow death of free speech"/><ref name="washingtonexaminer.com"/>  For example, there have been several intolerant, conservative mobs which have shut down conservative speakers at college campuses (in 2017, there were two cases in the United States where violence or threats of violence were used to shut down free speech at college campuses).<ref name="foxnews.com"/><ref>[http://www.mediaite.com/online/left-wing-hooliganism-wins-again-over-free-speech/ Intolerant Far-Left Mob Wins Again Over Free Speech, This Time at Berkeley], Mediaite, 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/opinions/ann-coulter-berkeley-free-speech-randazza-opinion/ Dear Berkeley: Even Ann Coulter deserves free speech], CNN, 2017</ref>
  
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[[Democrats]] used paid leftists agitators to disrupt [[Donald Trump]] rallies.<ref name="washingtontimes.com">[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/18/undercover-video-shows-democrats-saying-they-hire-/ Democratic heads roll after video shows agitators planted at Trump rallies], ''Washington Times'', 2016</ref><ref name="frontpagemag.com">[http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264543/undercover-video-democrats-caused-violence-trump-matthew-vadum UNDERCOVER VIDEO: DEMOCRATS CAUSED VIOLENCE AT TRUMP RALLIES], Frontpage Magazine, 2016</ref> As far as the paid agitators, veteran left-wing strategist Robert Creamer confirmed on hidden camera that [[Hillary Clinton]] “is fully in it” and  “Hillary knows through the chain of command what’s going on.”<ref name="frontpagemag.com"/>  The agitators were sent to Trump rallies to anger Trump supporters and incite violence.<ref name="washingtontimes.com"/>
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*[[Robert Taft]] — U.S. Senator, leader of the [[Conservative Coalition]], and unsuccessful 1948 presidential candidate
 
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*[[Barry Goldwater]] — 1964 Republican candidate, lost to liberal Democrat [[Lyndon Johnson]] but revived the conservative movement inside the GOP
 
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*[[Russell Kirk]] — Theorist & intellectual
 
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*[[Robert Bork]] — legal scholar, government official, and unsuccessful Supreme Court nominee
 
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*[[Margaret Thatcher]] — British prime minister between 1979 and 1990, held views similar to Reagan's
 
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*[[Milton Friedman]] — Chicago-school [[libertarian]] [[economist]], influential during Reagan administration; leader of the [[Chicago School of Economics]]
 
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*[[Clarence Thomas]] — Supreme Court justice
 
  
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===Hall of Fame===
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There have been a number of attacks against President Donald Trump supporters after his election which the [[mainstream media]] underreported.<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2016/11/17/heres-a-list-of-completely-substantiated-and-underreported-attacks-on-trump-supporters/ Here’s A List Of Completely Substantiated (And Underreported) Attacks On Trump Supporters], Daily Caller, 11/17/2016</ref> In addition, there have been a number of instances of leftists and Trump supporters clashing at Trump rallies after his election.<ref>[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3014061/violence-donald-trump-supporters-clash-rallies/ 'CIVIL WAR' Violence erupts as hundreds of Donald Trump supporters clash with rivals at US rallies], The Sun, March 2017</ref>
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Conservative scholar Clinton Rossiter<ref>Rossiter, "The Giants of American Conservatism," ''American Heritage'' 1955 6(6): 56-59, 94-96, online in [[EBSCO]]</ref> names [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Adams]], [[John Marshall]], [[Daniel Webster]], [[John C. Calhoun]], [[Elihu Root]], and [[Theodore Roosevelt]] to the "Conservative's Hall of Fame,"'' with John Adams as the greatest of American conservatives—a dubious choice since President Adams was an ardent opponent of [[free speech]] to criticize government.
 
  
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==U.S. voters==
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== conservatives and politics/law ==
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In America, most conservatives support the [[Republican Party]], but not exclusively so. In the 2008 election, 35% of the voters identified themselves as conservatives. Of them, 78% voted for [[John McCain]] and 20% for [[Barack Hussein Obama]], with the 20% accounting for Obama's margin of victory. Only 22% of the voters were liberal; they favored Obama 89%-10%. In the middle were 44% who called themselves moderates. They split for Obama by 60%-39%. (Minor candidates won 2% of the vote.)<ref>See [https://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1 Presidential 2008 Exit Poll]</ref>
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[[File:ObamaCareSymbol.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[ObamaCare]] graphic courtesy [[Newsbusters]].]]
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[[File:Russell Kirk.jpg|thumbnail|300px|[[Russell Kirk]] was an American political theorist, conservative intellectual, historian of ideas, social critic, and man of letters, who is best known for his role in the American conservative movement. ]]
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In the United States, conservatives currently use two Clauses of the U.S. Constitution to try to expand their power: the Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause. The General Welfare Clause mentions "promoting the general welfare". This to a conservative means taxing the rich at increased rates and redistributing that money. The Commerce Clause, on the other hand, says that Congress has the power to regulate trade with foreign nations, between the states and with the Indian tribes. Since the days of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] this clause has been interpreted very loosely and has resulted in the federal government expanding its power. The latest example is The Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as [[Obamacare]]. In the ACA, the conservatives justify the individual mandate by saying it regulates commerce between the states.  
  
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===Religious differences between political conservatives and political liberals===
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The decline in conservative principles can be illustrated by how Franklin Delano Roosevelt opposed and condemned public sector unions, stating that the idea of collective bargaining can't be transferred from the private to the public sector, as that would result in the government being unable to carry out its duties.  Yet today, decades later, [[Democrats]] and conservatives are in lock-step with public sector unions, as they "donate" money to the reelection campaign in exchange for more taxpayer money in their wallets and fluffed up pensions.
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The Barna poll conducted in November  2008 shows significant differences between the 32% of Americans who called themselves as “mostly conservative” on social and political matters; and the 17% who called themselves “mostly liberal” on social and political matters. The others—50%--were moderates with positions somewhere in-between.<ref>See [http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/13-culture/258-survey-shows-how-liberals-and-conservatives-differ-on-matters-of-faith on line results]</ref>
 
  
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Some findings:
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Current dictionaries describe the conservative ideology by pretending that a conservative is "a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties" or "a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets,"<ref>[http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=conservative&sub=Search+WordNet&o2=&o0=1&o7=&o5=&o1=1&o6=&o4=&o3=&h=00 Noun S: (n) conservative]</ref> or "open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc." or "favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, especially as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties."<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conservative conservative]</ref> In practical usage, the term "conservative" is more closely synonymous with "radical," "immoral," "anti-freedom," "elitist," or "bad."
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Political liberals are less than half as likely as political conservatives to firmly believe that the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches (27% versus 63%, respectively); to strongly believe that [[Satan]] is real (17% versus 36%); and to firmly contend that they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs with others (23% versus 48%).  
 
  
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[Note: "Liberal" and "conservative" in this survey are based on politics]
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==conservatives and uncharitableness==
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''See also'': [[conservatives and uncharitableness]] and [[Atheism and charity]]
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[[File:Krdo13.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|An [[Obamaville]] was a tent city or shanty town in the [[United States]] created by homeless people during [[Barack Hussein Obama|Barack Obama]]'s presidency.<ref>http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=174965</ref><ref>http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20100627_Huge_tent_city_takes_root.html</ref><ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/12/welcome-obamaville-sign-colorado-tent-city-media-mum</ref>
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[[United States|American]] conservatives have been observed to give less to charity than American conservatives.<ref name=georgeWill>[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_conservative_giv.html Conservatives More conservative Givers], [[RealClearPolitics]]</ref> ]]
  
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Liberals are also far less likely than conservatives to strongly believe each of the following:
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In March 2008, [[George Will]] wrote at [[RealClearPolitics]] concerning the [[United States]]:
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*their religious faith is very important in their life (54% of liberals vs. 82% of conservatives);
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{{cquote|Sixteen months ago, [[Arthur C. Brooks]], a professor at [[Syracuse University]], published "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism." The surprise is that conservatives are markedly less charitable than [[conservative]]s....
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*a person cannot earn their way into [[Heaven]] by doing good deeds or being a good person (23% vs. 37%);
 
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*their faith is becoming an increasingly important moral guide in their life (38% vs. 70%);
 
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*the church they currently attend is very important in helping them find direction and fulfillment in life (37% vs. 62%);
 
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*their primary purpose in life is to love God with all their heart, mind, strength and soul (43% vs. 76%);
 
  
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political conservatives were more likely than liberals to:
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If many conservatives are conservatives who have been mugged by reality, Brooks, a registered independent, is, as a reviewer of his book said, a social scientist who has been mugged by data. They include these findings:
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*read the Bible, other than at church events, during the past week (57% vs. 33%, respectively)
 
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*attend a religious service during the past week (62% vs. 35%)
 
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*[[pray]] to God, other than at a religious service, during the past week (91% vs. 76%)
 
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*share their religious beliefs with others, during the past year (56% vs. 39%, among the born again Christians interviewed from each segment)
 
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*have ever participated in a short-term missions trip, either within the U.S. or in another country (12% vs. 6%)
 
  
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*2% of conservatives and 11% of liberals were [[Atheism|atheist]] or [[agnostic]]
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-- Although conservative families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average conservative-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).
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*15% of conservatives and 2% of liberals were [[Evangelical Christians|Christian evangelicals]]
 
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*conservatives were twice as likely as liberals to be categorized as [[born again]], based on their theological views about salvation (63% vs. 32%)  
 
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*21% of conservatives were associated with the [[Roman Catholic Church]], compared to 30% among the liberals.
 
  
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== Conservative organizations ==
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-- Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.<ref name=georgeWill />}}
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[[Atheism|Atheists]] and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] often reject [[Bible|Biblical]] [[morality]] (and therefore [[conservative Christianity]] ) and hold to [[moral relativism]].  Therefore, it is not surprising that [[per capita]] atheists and agnostics in [[United States|America]] [[Atheism and charity|give significantly less to charity than theists even when church giving is not counted for theists]].<ref>[http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/12-faithspirituality/102-atheists-and-agnostics-take-aim-at-christians Atheists and Agnostics Take Aim at Christians]</ref>
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Several organizations exist that promote consistently conservative values.
 
  
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=== Conservative news ===
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:''See also: [[Conservative news websites]]''
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The political magazine the [[American Spectator]] featured an article which focused on [[conservative politicians and uncharitableness]] exposing the hypocrisy of the conservative politicians it featured.<ref>[http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c5_1238044128&c=1 Charity Donations and conservative Hypocrisy]</ref>
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Some of the more notable news organizations which tend to be more conservative are [[WorldNetDaily]] and [[NewsMax]]. [[Fox News]], though often called conservative, tends to be more [[neoconservative]] than conservative.
 
  
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=== Conservative magazines and blogs ===
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In addition, [[Barack Obama]] has been criticized concerning [[Barack Obama and uncharitableness|his lack of charitable giving]].
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:''See also: [[Conservative media]]''
 
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Well known conservative magazines in the United States include ''[[National Review]]'', ''[[Policy Review]]'', ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' and others.
 
  
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Some notable [[Conservative blogs|conservative political blogs]] include the [[Heritage Foundation]]'s Policy Weblog, ''[[Human Events]]'', [[Michelle Malkin]], Newsbusters, Townhall.com and others.
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==conservatives and superstition==
  
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[[Image:2384975035_230a0eac30.jpg‎‎|thumb|left|170px|The [[Wall Street Journal]] reported: "A comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows ...that the irreligious and the members of more conservative Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to [[superstition]], tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in [[pseudoscience]] than evangelical Christians."<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html</ref>]]
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The [[Wall Street Journal]] reported: "A comprehensive new study released by Baylor University, shows that [[Conservative Christianity|traditional Christian religion]] greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of [[astrology]].<ref name=irrational>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html Look Who's Irrational Now]</ref>
  
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American commentators who ally themselves with the conservative movement but reject its religious or moral underpinnings are generally known as [[neoconservatives]].<ref>Jonah Goldberg, [http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWMxNWNiNDJkY2JmNTExY2E1MzdkYWU3MWU1MTBiOGU= "What Is a 'Conservative'?"], [[National Review|National Review Online]], 11 May 2005</ref>
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{{cquote|The reality is that the [[New Atheism|New Atheist]] campaign, by discouraging [[religion]], won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith &mdash; it's what the empirical data tell us.
  
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In the United States, conservatives are generally characterized by the following beliefs:
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"What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that [[Conservative Christianity|traditional Christian religion]] greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of [[astrology]]. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more conservative Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience, such as evolution than evangelical Christians....
  
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This is not a new finding. In his 1983 book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener," skeptic and science writer Martin Gardner cited the decline of traditional religious belief among the better educated as one of the causes for an increase in [[pseudoscience]], cults and superstition. He referenced a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer that showed irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born-again Christian college students were the least likely.<ref name=irrational />}}
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In contrast, neoconservatives generally support [[Big government|bigger government]] and [[globalism]], and tend to downplay the significance of social values.
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The [[secular left]] consists of [[leftist|left]]-wing secularists who are able to exert their influence in many countries.  They support "strict government [[secularism]]".<ref>http://www.secularleft.us/about</ref>
  
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[[Paleoconservatives]] are conservatives who are more focused on social issues and American [[sovereignty]] and are suspicious of both big government and big business, along with [[globalism]] and [[multiculturalism]]. They also lean against foreign interventionism. Neoconservatives criticize this with the pejorative term of "[[isolationism]]," as they believe in promoting [[democracy]] worldwide, even where different religious or value systems are incompatible with democracy-induced changes in control.
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A notable paleoconservative was Democrat Congressman from Georgia, [[Larry McDonald]]. He was also second Chairman of the [[John Birch Society]], and President of Western Goals. McDonald was aboard [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] when it was shot down by the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] near [[Moneron Island]] in 1983. Other paleoconservatives include [[Pat Buchanan]] and [[Tom Tancredo]].
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In some regions where the secular left has considerable influence, they [[Decline of the secular left|are losing]] an increasing amount of their power.
  
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==Fiscal Conservatism vs. Social Conservatism==
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Religious conservatism is a big driver of [[social conservatism]].  Religious conservatism is growing in the world and it is affecting politics (see: [[Religious conservatism and politics]]).<ref>
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[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Eric Kaufmann, Belfer Center, Harvard University/Birkbeck College, University of London]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century]</ref>
  
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==  conservative Christianity and marital infidelity ==
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''See also:'' [[conservative Christianity and marital infidelity]] and [[conservative Christianity]]  
  
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Recently, a division has been created between fiscal conservatism and social conservatism. Fiscal conservatism centers around a low and [[Balanced budget|balanced]] government [[budget]], and generally is opposed to programs such as [[Social Security]] and [[Medicare]]. Its primary goal is to reduce government spending significantly. Social Conservatism, on the other hand, focuses on the moral issues of conservatism. A social conservative will oppose [[same-sex marriage]], [[abortion]], and the teaching of [[evolution]] in schools. The majority of Conservatives (including most of the [[Republican Party]]) fall into both categories, however some fall into one or the other, but not both. Notably, [[Libertarians]] are strong fiscal conservatives but are not socially conservative. For instance, the [[Libertarian Party]] Platform <ref>[http://www.lp.org/platform]</ref> expresses support for the fiscally conservative principles of ending publicly funded [[welfare]] and [[healthcare]] programs as well as reducing government spending overall significantly. However, it also expresses support for [[same-sex marriage]] (with some libertarians leaning towards the ultimate goal of total [[marriage privatization]]) as well as maintaining the legal status of abortion.
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According to a 2007 study reported in the ''Journal of Family Issues'', adherents of [[conservative Christianity]] are more likely to engage in marital infidelity than theologically [[Conservative Christianity|conservative Christians]].<ref>[http://www.sagepub.com/hillhsstudy/articles/Chapter10_Article%2001.pdf Are There Religious Variations in Marital Infidelity?]</ref>
  
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Some Republicans and [[Democrat Party|Democrats]] also fit one category but not the other. Former [[New Mexico]] governor [[Gary Johnson]], who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, was deemed "the most fiscally conservative governor" while he was in office (and probably earned that honor given all the spending cuts he made) but at the same time, he supports [[marriage privatization]] and [[abortion]] (though he believes ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' should be overturned on Constitutional grounds). Also, several Democrats have expressed opposition to same-sex marriage and/or abortion, but still support liberal fiscal programs such as Social Security. They would be the opposite of Johnson - socially conservative but fiscally liberal.
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As noted above, conservatives are [[Evolution and conservativeism|more likely]] to adhere to evolutionary belief than conservatives. A study conducted by the Australian National University, revealed that belief in evolution is associated with moral permissiveness.<ref>[http://creation.com/morals-decline-linked-to-belief-in-evolution Morals decline linked to evolution]</ref>
  
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== American conservativeism ==
  
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Due to the explosive growth of [[global Christianity]] in traditional cultures and their influence on Western Christianity and the higher birth rate of [[Conservative Christianity|conservative Christians]] and religious conservatives, social conservatism is expected to rise.
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[[File:FDRoosevelt by Perskie.png|thumbnail|right|200px|[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] ]]
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{{cquote|High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to liberal Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will begin to tip the balance in the [[Culture War|culture wars]] towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as [[abortion]]. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be pro-life. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-are-years-2012-and-2020-key-years.html Why are 2012 and 2020 key years for Christian creationists and pro-lifers?]</ref>}}
 
  
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As noted above, [[American conservativeism]] is a political ideology that dominates the [[Democratic Party]]. Its heroes include [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], and [[Martin Luther King]].
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Because Conservatives often have strong political views, there can be a tendency to see conservatism as a purely political ideology. However, there is also a strong personal side to conservatism - being a conservative is as much about applying conservative values to one's everyday life as it is about campaigning and voting for conservative candidates. In general, conservatives can be characterized by a strong sense of personal [[morality]], a willingness to observe their culture's traditions and customs, and a desire to be respectable and to show due respect to other members of the community.
 
  
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==History of American conservatism==
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According to the Gallup Organization, in the United States,  25% of the population were conservatives and 36% were conservatives in 2016.<ref>[US Conservatives Outnumber conservatives by Narrowing Margin], Gallup, January of 2017</ref>
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College-level teaching about conservatism has been distorted by a "liberal state paradigm"—that is, [[textbook]]s usually interpret recent American history in terms of the origins and successes of political liberalism—especially the [[New Deal]], the [[welfare state]], [[labor union]]s, and [[Civil Rights Movement|Civil Rights]] for blacks and [[equality]] for women. Conservative politics is usually defined as a reaction: as a [[free market]] reply to the growth of [[big government]]; as an expression of outrage against declining support for tradition and Christian morality. Where the violent Wobblies ([[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]]) and illegal sit down strikes of the 1930s are seen as heroic, exposing [[Communist]] subversion by [[Joe McCarthy]] is denounced as the nadir of political morality.<ref>See Leonard Moore, "Approaching Conservatism," ''OAH Magazine of History,'' 17 (January 2003) [http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/conservatism/moore.html online edition]</ref>
 
  
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In 2017, the ''Financial Times'' declared about [[American conservativeism]]:
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The [[Loyalists]] of the [[American Revolution]] were mostly political conservatives, some of whom produced political discourse of a high order, including lawyer [[Joseph Galloway]] and governor-historian [[Thomas Hutchinson]]. However, when the crisis came, they stood with the Crown as it tried to destroy American political liberties. After the war, the great majority remained in the U.S. and became citizens, but some leaders emigrated to other places in the British Empire. [[Samuel Seabury]] was a Loyalist who stayed and as the first American bishop played a major role in shaping the [[Episcopal]] religion, a stronghold of conservative social values.  While the Loyalist political tradition died out totally it the U.S., it survives in Canadian conservatism.
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{{Cquote|...as Democrats struggle to reinvent themselves in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, their party remains captured by a toxic mix of [[identity politics]] and corporate interests. The establishment wing is still convinced that racism and [[misogyny]], not economic populism, sank Mrs Clinton, and that wooing big corporate donors is still the way to victory in the next election.
  
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While money matters, and there may have been some voters who turned away from Mrs Clinton because of gender, the key reason that the Democrats lost in 2016 and are struggling to rebrand themselves is that they have failed to grasp two things.
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The [[Founding Fathers]] created the single most important set of political ideas in American history, known as [[Republicanism]], which all groups, liberal and conservative alike, have drawn from.  Two parties were named "Republican"—the one founded in 1794 by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[James Madison]] (it disappeared in the 1820s), and the modern GOP founded in 1854.  
 
  
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During the [[First Party System]] (1790s-1820s) the [[Federalist Party]], led by [[Alexander Hamilton]], developed an important variation of republicanism that can be considered conservative. Rejecting [[monarchy]] and [[aristocracy]], they emphasized civic virtue as the core American value. The Federalists spoke for the propertied interests and the upper classes of the cities. They envisioned a modernizing land of banks and factories, with a strong army and navy. [[George Washington]] was their great hero.
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Firstly, most Americans today care more about jobs than identity, and secondly, the same downward mobility that pushed the white working class towards Mr Trump is moving up the socio-economic food chain, and fast. As research by groups from the International Monetary Fund to the OECD to McKinsey has shown, the technology-related job disruption that resulted in rust belt job losses and wage stagnation since 2000 is beginning to affect white-collar workers across nearly every sector....
  
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But Democrats over-estimated the power and relevance of identity politics (there are still more whites without a college degree than minorities), and underestimated the breadth and depth of labour disruption. In any case, says Robert Johnson, president of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, “it was always a mistake to separate out issues of race and class, because they go hand in hand. In economically insecure times, fear of the ‘other’ increases.” It is a phenomenon exploited by Mr Trump.<ref>[https://www.ft.com/content/b34f5536-2c02-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c Economics, not identity, is key to reviving American conservativeism], Financial Times, 2017</ref>}}
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During the [[Second Party System]] (1830–54) the [[Whig Party]] attracted most conservatives, such as [[Daniel Webster]] of New England. [[Daniel Webster]] and other leaders of the [[Whig Party]], called it the conservative party in the late 1830s.<ref>The word was originally used in the [[French Revolution]]. The British used it after 1839 to describe a major party. The first American usage is by Whigs who called themselves "Conservatives" in the late 1830s. Hans Sperber and Travis Trittschuh, ''American Political terms: An Historical Dictionary'' (1962) 94-97.</ref>  [[John C. Calhoun]], a Democrat, articulated a sophisticated conservatism in his writings. [[Richard Hofstadter]] (1948) called him "The [[Karl Marx|Marx]] of the Master Class." Calhoun argued that a conservative minority should be able to limit the power of a "majority dictatorship" because tradition represents the wisdom of past generations. (This argument echoes one made by [[Edmund Burke]], the founder of British conservatism, in ''Reflections on the Revolution in France'' (1790)). Calhoun is considered the father of the idea of minority rights, a position adopted by liberals in the 1960s in dealing with [[Civil Rights]].
 
  
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The conservatism of the antebellum period is contested territory; conservatives of the 21st century disagree over what comprises their heritage. Thus [[William J. Bennett]] (2006), a prominent conservative leader, warns conservatives to NOT honor Calhoun, [[Know-Nothings]], [[Copperheads (politics)|Copperheads]] and 20th century [[isolationist]]s.
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[[Democrats]] and most media outlets in the [[U.S.]] are blatantly conservative.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrc.org/biasbasics/biasbasics1.asp|title=Media Bias basics|publisher=[[Media Research Center]]}}</ref> conservativeism in North America today practices three primary tactics to attack the Republican Party, and sometimes to attack American values in general. These three conservative tactics can be pronounced using the following [[acronym]]: SIN. conservatives (1) '''s'''hift the subject, they (2) '''i'''gnore the facts, and they (3) '''n'''ame call.<ref>Scott Baker. [http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-herman-cain-give-the-dont-miss-speech-at-cpac/ Did Herman Cain Give the ‘Don’t Miss’ Speech at CPAC?], ''[[The Blaze]], February 12, 2011.</ref><ref>[[YouTube]]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N3-j3HM7-A& Herman Cain: "Stupid People Are Ruining America"], February 11, 2011.</ref>
  
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* conservatives typically support a "mixed" economy, a policy similar to that of [[fascism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fora.tv/2008/01/30/conservative_Traits_of_Fascism|title=Video discussion about how modern conservativeism is actually fascist by author Jonah Goldberg.}}</ref>
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Since 1865 the [[Republican Party]] has identified itself with President [[Abraham Lincoln]], who was the ideological heir of the [[Whig Party|Whigs]] and of both [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] and [[Alexander Hamilton|Hamilton]]. As the [[Gettysburg Address]] shows, Lincoln cast himself as a second Jefferson bringing a second birth of freedom to the nation that had been born 86 years before in Jefferson's [[Declaration of Independence|Declaration]]. The [[Copperheads (politics)|Copperheads]] of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] reflected a [[reactionary]] opposition to modernity of the sort repudiated by modern conservatives. A few libertarians have adopted a neo-Copperhead position, arguing Lincoln was a dictator who created an all-powerful government.
 
  
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In the late 19th century the [[Bourbon Democrat]]s, led by President [[Grover Cleveland]], preached against corruption, high taxes (protective [[tariff]]s), and [[imperialism]], and supported the [[gold standard]] and business interests. They were overthrown by [[William Jennings Bryan]] in 1896, who moved the mainstream of the Democrat Party permanently to the left.
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* conservatives claimed a monopoly on [[compassion]], [[decency]], and [[social justice]] (as defined by themselves), posing as the sole defenders of [[civic virtue]] against a horde of backwoodsmen, racists, and religious fanatics. [https://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/the_disgrace_of_conservativeism.html]
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{{cquote|There's another goal, from my point of view, which is to try to lay the groundwork for a radical political force which would conceive of itself as distinctly to the left of moderate, reformist American conservatives. And that has two aspects. One is to try to change that conservativeism, to transform it by analysis, critique, and activism; the second is to build a radical movement which would be an autonomous force in its own right, which would be distinct from the traditional American conservative consensus. This radical part of the program involves not simply supporting the conservative students against conservative students and conservative professors, but trying to act on them, to push them to the left. It also involves trying to find and support, even trying to help create, networks of radical students in law school and of radical professors around the country — students and teachers who see themselves as wanting to go a lot further than most people want to go.<ref>[http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=conservative+teachers&fr=yfp-t-501&fp_ip=MX&u=duncankennedy.net/documents/conservative%2520Values%2520in%2520Legal%2520Education.pdf&w=conservative+conservatives+teachers+teacher&d=BNZFhPReRjC1&icp=1&.intl=us conservative Values in Legal Education] Duncan Kennedy (professor at Harvard Law School)</ref>}}
  
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The 1896 presidential election was the first with a conservative versus liberal theme in the way in which these terms are now understood. Republican [[William McKinley]] won using the pro-business slogan "[[sound money]] and protection," while Bryan's anti-bank populism had a lasting effect on economic policies of the Democrat Party.
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===conservative Rankings of Congress Members===
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The National Journal compiles the votes of each congress member each year and uses the information to create rankings<ref>[http://nationaljournal.com/voteratings/index.htm How the House voted]</ref> of how conservative each member of the United States [[Congress]] is. In addition to showing the voting records of each member and given an overall all ranking of conservativeness, the National Journal also ranks congress members by conservativeness in the areas of social, economic, and foreign policy.
  
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[[William Graham Sumner]], [[Yale University|Yale]] professor (1872-1910) and polymath, vigorously promoted a libertarian conservative ethic. After dallying with [[Social Darwinism]] under the influence of [[Herbert Spencer]], he rejected [[evolution]] in his later works, and strongly opposed imperialism. He opposed monopoly and [[paternalism]] in theory as a threat to equality, democracy and middle class values, but was vague on what to do about it.<ref>Curtis, Bruce. "William Graham Sumner 'On the Concentration of Wealth.'" Journal of American History 1969 55(4): 823-832.</ref>
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=== American conservativeism, demographics and expected tipping point in the decline of American conservativeism ===
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Due to the explosive growth of [[global Christianity]] in traditional cultures and their influence on Western [[Christianity]] and the higher birth rate of [[Conservative Christianity|conservative Christians]] and religious conservatives, social conservatism is expected to rise.
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In the [[Progressive Era]] (1890s-1932), regulation of industry expanded as conservatives led by Senator [[Nelson Aldrich]] of [[Rhode Island]] were put on the defensive. However, Aldrich's proposal for a strong national banking system was enacted as the [[Federal Reserve System]] in 1913. [[Theodore Roosevelt]], the dominant personality of the era, was both liberal and conservative by turns. As a liberal he took a tough [[Regulation|regulatory]] approach toward businesses and [[trust]]s, and (post-presidency) fought for social insurance for the elderly. As a conservative he led the fight to make the country a major naval power, and demanded entry into [[World War I]] to stop what he saw as the [[German Empire|German]] attacks on civilization. [[William Howard Taft]] promoted a strong federal judiciary that would overrule excessive legislation. Taft defeated Roosevelt on that issue in 1912, forcing Roosevelt out of the GOP and turning it to the right for decades. As president, Taft remade the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] with five appointments; he himself presided as chief justice in 1921-30, the only former president ever to do so.
 
  
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Pro-business Republicans returned to dominance in 1920 with the election of President [[Warren G. Harding]]. The presidency of [[Calvin Coolidge]] (1923–29) was a high water mark for conservatism, both politically and intellectually. Classic writing of the period includes ''Democracy and Leadership'' (1924) by Irving Babbitt and [[H.L. Mencken]]'s magazine ''American Mercury'' (1924–33). The [[Efficiency Movement]] attracted many conservatives such as [[Herbert Hoover]] with its pro-business, pro-engineer approach to solving social and economic problems. In the 1920s many American conservatives generally maintained anti-foreign attitudes and, as usual, were disinclined toward changes to the healthy economic climate of the age.
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The Birkbeck College, University of London professor Eric Kaufman wrote in his 2010 book ''Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth?'' concerning America:
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{{cquote|High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to conservative Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will to tip the balance in the [[Culture War|culture wars]] towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be pro-life. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-are-years-2012-and-2020-key-years.html Why are 2012 and 2020 key years for Christian creationists and pro-lifers?]</ref>}}
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During the [[Great Depression]], other conservatives participated in the taxpayers' revolt at the local level. From 1930 to 1933, Americans formed as many as 3,000 taxpayers' leagues to protest high [[property tax]]es. These groups endorsed measures to limit and rollback taxes, lowered penalties on tax delinquents, and cuts in government spending. A few also called for illegal resistance (or tax strikes). The best known of these was led by the Association of Real Estate Taxpayers in [[Chicago]] which, at its height, had 30,000 dues-paying members. 
 
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An important intellectual movement, calling itself [[Southern Agrarians]] and based in Nashville, brought together like-minded novelists, poets and historians who argued that modern values undermined the traditions of American [[Republicanism]] and civic virtue.
 
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The Depression brought [[liberal]]s to power under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (1933). Indeed, the term "liberal" now came to mean a supporter of the [[New Deal]] and Roosevelt's powerful [[New Deal Coalition]]. In 1934 [[Al Smith]] and pro-business Democrats formed the [[American Liberty League]] to fight the new liberalism, but failed to stop Roosevelt's shifting the Democrat Party to the left. In 1936 the Republicans rejected Hoover and tried the more liberal [[Alf Landon]], who carried only [[Maine]] and [[Vermont]]. When Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court in 1937 the conservatives finally cooperated across party lines and defeated it with help from Vice President [[John Nance Garner]]. Roosevelt unsuccessfully tried to purge the conservative Democrats in the 1938 election. The conservatives in Congress then formed a bipartisan informal [[Conservative Coalition]] of Republicans and southern Democrats. It largely controlled Congress from 1937 to 1964. Its most prominent leaders were Senator [[Robert Taft]], a Republican of [[Ohio]], and Senator [[Richard Russell]], Democrat of [[Georgia]].
 
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[[Image:Gop-plank.JPG|thumb|275px|1936 cartoon shows GOP building its platform from the conservative planks abandoned by the Democrats]]
 
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In the United States, the [[Old Right]], also called the Old Guard, was a group of [[libertarianism|libertarian]], free-market anti-interventionists, originally associated with Midwestern Republicans and Southern Democrats. The Republicans (but not the southern Democrats) were [[isolationist]]s in 1939-41, (see [[America First]]), and later opposed [[NATO]] and U.S. military intervention in the [[Korean War]].
 
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By 1950, [[American liberalism]] was so dominant intellectually that liberal critic [[Lionel Trilling]] could dismiss contemporary conservatism as "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas." <ref>Lapham 2004</ref>  But just as Trilling was writing a revival was underway. In the 1950s, principles for a conservative political movement were hashed out in books like [[Russell Kirk]]'s ''The Conservative Mind'' (1953) and in the highly influential new magazine ''[[National Review]]'', founded by [[William F. Buckley]] in 1955.
 
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Whereas Taft's [[Old Right]] had been [[isolationist]] the new conservatism favored American intervention overseas to oppose [[Communism]]. It looked to the [[Founding Fathers]] for historical inspiration as opposed to [[John C. Calhoun|Calhoun]] and the antebellum South.
 
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The success of the [[Civil Rights movement]] came in the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] and the [[Voting Rights Act]] of 1965. Most conservatives supported both, but [[Barry Goldwater]] opposed them.  Until then southern whites (both liberal and conservative) had been locked into the Democrat Party. That lock was now broken and southern conservatives started voting for Republican candidates for president in 1964-68, and by the 1990s they were also voting for GOP candidates for state and local office. The southern blacks now began to vote in large numbers, and they became Democrats, moving that party in the south to the left. By 2000, for the first time, all southern states had a conservative GOP and a liberal Democrat Party.  The region favored the GOP heavily in presidential elections, but split in state contests.  In 2008, however, the [[Barack Hussein Obama|Obama]] campaign broke into the solid Republican South, carrying [[Florida]], [[Virginia]] and [[North Carolina]].  
 
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Goldwater, a charismatic figure whose intense opposition to all [[New Deal]] programs angered liberals, was defeated in a landslide in 1964. Goldwater faded and his supporters regrouped under new leadership, especially that of [[Ronald Reagan]] in [[California]], and regained strength nationally in the 1966 elections. Conservatives voted for [[Richard Nixon]] in 1968, who narrowly defeated the New Deal champion [[Hubert Humphrey]], and southern demagogue [[George Wallace]]. Nixon had come to terms with both the Goldwater wing of the party and the still-influential Rockefeller Republicans (Republicans from the [[Northeast]] who supported many New Deal programs).
 
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The Republican administrations of President [[Richard Nixon]] in the [[1970s]] were characterized more by their emphasis on ''[[realpolitik]]'', [[détente]], and economic policies such as [[wage and price controls]], than by their adherence to conservative rhetoric and more liberal actions.  
 
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In the eight years of [[Ronald Reagan]]'s presidency 1981-89 the American conservative movement achieved ascendancy. In 1980 the GOP took control of the Senate for the first time since 1954, and [[conservative principles]] dominated Reagan's economic and foreign policies, with [[supply side economics]] as well as a strict opposition to [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Communism]].  Reagan promised to cut [[welfare]] spending but failed to do so.  He did cut taxes, but raised [[military spending]] and created large [[federal deficit]]s that turned out working to our advantage, because at that time, deficits didn't matter. It should be known that the Republicans also [[Balanced budget|balanced]] the [[budget]] in the late 1990s.
 
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An icon of the American conservative movement, Reagan is credited by his supporters with transforming American politics, galvanizing the Republican Party, uniting a coalition of economic conservatives who supported his supply-side economic policies, known as "[[Reaganomics]]," foreign policy conservatives who favored his success in stopping and rolling back Communism, and social conservatives who identified with Reagan's conservative religious and social ideals.
 
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In October 2009, Niles Gardiner reported in the [[Britain|British]] newspaper ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'':
 
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{{cquote|This week’s striking [[Gallup]] poll on political ideology is further confirmation that the United States is in essence a conservative nation, which has ironically become even more conservative under [[Barack Obama]]. According to Gallup, 40 percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36 percent as moderate and 20 percent as liberal. This is the first time conservatives have outnumbered moderates in America since 2004.<ref>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100014891/barack-obama-has-failed-to-defeat-conservatism-in-america/</ref>}}
 
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"Forty percent of Americans now self-identify as conservatives — double the amount of self-professed liberals — largely because independents are beginning to take sides."<ref>http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/winter11/spalding.html</ref>
 
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Conservatives strongly criticized Obama for his far-left and negative policies and the negative impact of those policies.<ref>Scaliger, Charles (February 23, 2017). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/25433-barack-obama-s-legacy Barack Obama's Legacy]. ''The New American''. Retrieved June 20, 2018.</ref><ref>Adelmann, Bob (January 20, 2017). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/25183-is-obama-worst-u-s-president Is Obama Worst U.S. President?] ''The New American''. Retrieved June 20, 2018.</ref><ref>Vargas, Mark (September 16, 2018). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-legacy-of-barack-obama-and-its-not-a-good-one The legacy of Barack Obama (and it's not a good one)]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved September 16, 2018.</ref> [[Dinesh D'Souza]] wrote, "Obama's legacy is to double the national debt & dramatically reduce US influence in the world."<ref>https://twitter.com/dineshdsouza/status/760447860638789632</ref> During Obama's 8 years in office, Democrats lost over 1,000 seats in the federal and state governments.<ref name="1,000Seats"/>
 
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===Donald Trump===
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Despite heavy opposition from the political [[establishment]], businessman [[Donald Trump]] defeated sixteen other candidates in the Republican primaries and defeated the heavy favorite in the general election, Hillary Clinton. As president, Trump enacted strongly conservative policies in issues such as deregulation, trade, immigration, religious freedom, abortion, and judges.
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In Europe, on the other hand, parties that call themselves ''conservative'' are moderate in outlook, ranging from centre-left to centre-right, promote typically economic and business freedom. The Alliance of conservatives and Democrats for Europe<ref>[http://www.alde.eu Alliance of conservatives and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament]</ref> is a party of the European Parliament that represents most ''conservative'' parties from European countries. Similar policies are promoted by many ''conservative'' parties throughout the world,<ref>[http://www.conservative-international.org/ World Federation of conservativeism]</ref> such as the conservative Party of Australia.<ref>[http://www.conservative.org.au/ conservative Party of Australia]</ref>
  
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Trade unions and socialist parties often criticize politicians for promoting lower taxes on business, or more flexible hiring and firing laws, by calling them "conservatives" or [[neoconservative]]s. Thus, just as in the US, "conservative" may occasionally be used as a term of abuse. But when someone is called "conservative" in Europe, it has an entirely different meaning than in the US. In fact, the US meaning of conservative is more similar to the politics of both European [[socialist]]/[[social democracy|social democratic]] or Social/progressive conservative parties, in contrast to conservative or fiscal conservative parties which again falls into the right-wing part of the political spectrum.<ref>[http://www.pes.org Party of European Socialism]</ref>
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Conservatism in Europe is generally synonymous with [[Euroskepticism]] and [[right-wing populism]] – ideologies that support local control, [[self-governance]], [[patriotism]] and national identity, [[sovereignty]], less immigration, and a more limited government as opposed to an endless EU bureaucracy. While mainstream [[establishment]] parties in Europe are also occasionally labeled "conservative" by the media, they share many of the same policies as globalism and liberalism.
 
  
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Conservative parties in Europe include the [[Swiss People's Party]], [[Law and Justice]], [[Fidesz]], [[Lega Nord]], the [[Austrian Freedom Party]], [[Sweden Democrats]], and the [[Alternative for Germany]], among other parties. Prominent continental European conservatives include [[Viktor Orbán]], [[Václav Klaus]], [[Matteo Salvini]], [[Christoph Blocher]], [[Jarosław Kaczyński]], and [[Norbert Hofer]].
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[[File:JohnStuartMill.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px||[[John Stuart Mill]] was a [[classical conservative]]. ]]
  
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In history, the word "conservative" has meant different things at different times, and was associated with individual liberty in prior centuries. In the postwar period, conservatives supported government intervention in the economy and welfare state policies, as well as peaceful coexistence with the communist block, which are not conservative policies in the sense of classical conservativeism. After the end of the cold war, with the demise of socialism and communism, many conservatives embraced some ideas from economic neo-conservativeism, and coined it the "Third Way". In the area of [[national security]] and foreign policy conservatives in the [[U.S.]] failed to define a consistent stance, even after the events of 9/11 and the beginning of the war in Iraq.  conservatives generally support affirmative action, gay marriage, and abortion.<ref>[http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/Greenberg-Bailey/Homosexual%20Eugenics.pdf Parental Selection of Children’s Sexual Orientation], '''PDF''', "Political conservatives tend, for whatever reason, to be ardent supporters of both gay rights and pro-choice programs." Greenberg and Bailey</ref>
  
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=== Original meaning: Classical conservativeism ===
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conservativeism is a political philosophy with freedom as its core value. The term was originally applied to supporters of individual liberties and equal rights, but, in America, the term has come to represent a movement of social change that often conflicts with [[conservative]] values such as moral values and traditions derived from Northern European Protestantism.
  
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Conservatism has a strong tradition in the [[United Kingdom]], with figures such as [[John Locke]] and [[Edmund Burke]] laying its philosophical foundation. Most British conservatives belong to the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] – a [[big tent]] party that includes both consistent conservatives and liberal [[globalists]] – as well as the [[United Kingdom Independence Party]] and the [[Democratic Unionist Party]]. Some notable British conservatives include [[Winston Churchill]], [[Enoch Powell]], [[Margaret Thatcher]], [[Ian Paisley]], [[Nigel Farage]], [[Raheem Kassam]], and [[Jacob Rees-Mogg]].
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Up until the mid-19th century, the forerunner of the Conservative Party were known as [[Tory|Tories]], and the name has persisted as a common nickname both for the political party and those believed to be in agreement with it. Since the mid-to-late 1970s, British conservatives have been defined by an advocacy of [[laissez-faire]] economics, privatization and lower taxation. In recent years the Conservative Party has moved away from the social conservatism which once characterized it, and the current party policy includes, for example, support for [[abortion]] on demand, gay [[civil partnership]], the [[Kyoto Treaty]] and to oppose [[capital punishment]] (although it should be noted that such policies have little support among the party's grassroots membership).<ref>John Charmley, ''A History of Conservative Politics Since 1830'', (2nd ed. 2008)</ref> In common with conservatives in many other countries, British Conservatives tend towards a patriotic rather than internationalist outlook, and are traditionally skeptical of the [[European Union]].
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== Influential/famous conservatives ==
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[[Margaret Thatcher]] revitalized the British conservatives much like Reagan revitalized American conservatives. During her tenure as Prime Minister, she cut taxes, trimmed back at government waste, and exercised a strong national defense abroad (including the [[Falklands War]] of 1982).
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[[Image:President Barack Obama.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Barack Hussein Obama|Barack Obama]] ]]
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Levels of prayer and worship are much lower in [[England]] and [[Wales]] than in the U.S., and religious issues thereby play less of a role in public discourse.  However, religious issues remain a significant factor in [[Northern Ireland]] and in 2008 religious issues were significant during a special election in [[Scotland]].
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Australia was once more conservative than England but sweeping [[gun control]] laws pushed the nation leftward toward greater dependency on government in the last decade.  In 2009, opposition to government control based on alleged [[global warming]] galvanized conservatives there and they led the [[Liberal Party of Australia]] to a repudiation of an emissions trading scheme.<ref>http://www.smh.com.au/national/shock-result-as-abbott-wins-liberal-leadership-by-one-vote--ets-dead-20091201-k1uz.html</ref>  Conservatives also support smaller political parties such as the [[Family First Party]].
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Several facets of conservatism function in unison to make it an effective and powerful philosophy.  Conservatism emphasizes personal freedom, independence, and initiative; this allows the [[best of the public]] to rise to their natural level of achievement.  Conservatives recognize that [[big government]] fosters dependency and stifles individual achievement—and thus, weakens society as a whole. 
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* Critchlow, Donald T. ''The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History'' (2007)
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* Filler, Louis. ''Dictionary of American Conservatism The First Complete Guide to Issues, People, Organizations and Events'' (1987), useful older encyclopedia
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*[[ACLU|ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union]]
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* Frank, Thomas. ''What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' (2005), a liberal perspective [http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America/dp/080507774X/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193685789&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
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*[[ACORN|ACORN - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now]]
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* Judis, John B. ''William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives'' (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/William-F-Buckley-Jr-Conservatives/dp/0743217977/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207759425&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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*[[Amnesty International|AI - Amnesty International]]
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* Kirk, Russell. ''The Conservative Mind''. (7th ed. 2001). highly influential conservative history of ideas [http://www.historyebook.org/ online at ACLS e-books]
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*[[A.N.S.W.E.R.|ANSWER - Act Now to Stop War and End Racism]]
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* Link, William A. ''Righteous warrior: Jesse Helms and the rise of modern conservatism'' (2008) 643 pages
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*[[CAIR|CAIR - Council on American-Islamic Relations]]
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* Micklethwait, John, and Adrian Wooldridge. ''The Right Nation,'' (2004) influential survey [http://www.amazon.com/Right-Nation-Conservative-Power-America/dp/B000F71124/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205919226&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
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* Micklethwait, John, and Adrian Wooldridge. ''God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World'' (2009)
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* Nash, George. ''The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945'' (2006), excellent scholarly history. [http://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Intellectual-Movement-America-Since/dp/1933859121/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241925238&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
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*Pemberton, William E. ''Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan'' (1998) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/exit-with-honor-the-life-and-presidency-of-ronald-reagan-by-william-e-pemberton.jsp online edition]
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*[[MoveOn.org]]
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*Perlstein, Rick. ''Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus'' (2004) on 1964 [http://www.amazon.com/Before-Storm-Goldwater-Unmaking-Consensus/dp/0809028581/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193684721&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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*Perlstein, Rick. ''Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America'' (2008) [http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/074324303X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241924189&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
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*[[NARAL|NARAL - National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League]]
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* Schneider, Gregory L. ed. ''Conservatism in America Since 1930: A Reader'' (2003)
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*[[NAACP|NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]]
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*Schoenwald; Jonathan. ''A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism'' (2002) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=104931191 online edition] also [http://www.historyebook.org/ online at ACLS e-books]
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*[[National Committee for an Effective Congress]]
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* Schweizer, Peter, and Wynton C. Hall, eds. ''Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Landmark-Speeches-American-Conservative-Movement/dp/1585445983/ref=sr_1_4/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193685365&sr=1-4 excerpt and text search]
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*[[National Education Association]]
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*[[National Organization of Women|NOW - National Organization of Women]]
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*[[PETA|PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]]
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*[[Progressives for Obama]]
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*[[SEIU|SEIU - Service Employees International Union]]
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Revision as of 01:45, December 27, 2018

A conservative (alternately called a left-winger or leftist) is someone who advocates an increase in government spending, power, and control, such as ObamaCare. conservatives often support the censorship and denial of biblical Christianity[1] and consistently conservative viewpoints. conservatives who are a part of the secular left prefer atheism/agnosticism over the Christian faith, as atheism has no objective morality to hinder their big government plans.[2]

Increasingly, conservatives side with the homosexual agenda, including homosexual "marriage". conservatives favor a welfare state where people receive endless entitlements without working.[3] The conservative ideology has degenerated into economically unsound views and intolerant ideology. All conservatives support, in knee-jerk fashion, the opposite of conservative principles, while lacking an actual ideology or values of their own.[4] Many of them cannot understand Christian language.[5] conservatives are especially prone to believe conspiracy theories, particularly those that denigrate people or views they disagree with.

Polling data has consistently shown that a larger percentage of Americans identify as conservative, rather than as conservative, by a margin of 35% to 26% as of 2017; while the gap between self-identified conservatives and self-identified conservatives has been narrowing in recent years,[6] conservatives and "progressives" oftentimes falsely claim that conservatives outnumber conservatives.

Political positions and practices

conservatives support the following political positions and practices:[7]

  • Wasting money on ineffective government programs (the significant economic problems in the Eurozone due to government debt will no doubt increasingly discredit this aspect of conservative ideology and make things more difficult for advocates of conservative economic ideologies)
  • Many conservatives are increasingly attempting to limit free speech.[8][9]
  • In the United States, the Democrat Party and conservatives have moved so far left that there are now political figures involved in Democrat politics who are sympathetic to Communism. For example, Anita Dunn, an American political strategist who served as White House Communications Director from April through November 2009 in Obama Administration, said that Mao Zedong was her favorite political philosopher.[10] Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate in the Democrat Party's 2016 presidential nomination, although he is an adherent of social democracy, he also has a history of involvement with Marxist organizations.[11][12][13] Sanders shocked his fellow conservatives by putting up a Soviet Union flag in his Senate office.[14] In 1998, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which was founded by Sanders, had the song Red Revolution (a song advocating communist revolution) featured on a website that they shared with the Democratic Socialists of America.[12]
Hillary Clinton
  • In 1993, Hugh E. Rodham, father of Hillary Clinton, made the statement about the Democrat Party, which is a party strongly supported by conservatives, “Democrats are one step short of Communism.”[15] In 1988, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), after decades of running their own presidential candidates, stopped running presidential candidates because the gap between Democrats and American communists had grown smaller.[16] In 2016, the CPUSA urged people not to vote for Donald Trump even if they disliked Hillary Clinton (an indirect endorsement of Clinton).[16] Although there are still some very substantial differences between Communists and Democrats/conservatives, the line between Communists/Democrats/conservatives continues to blur in the United States.[15] Ironically, the leading Communist country in the world, Communist China, has moved farther away from Communism and now has a mixed economy of capitalism and state owned enterprises.[17]
  • Denial of science[18] (especially creation science)
  • Government's ability to solve economic problems[19]
  • Hypocrisy[20]
  • The belief that Islamic terrorism is not a huge threat, and that the main reason for Islamic extremists' hostility towards America is because of bad foreign policy [19]
  • Brainwashing voters with propaganda
  • Hedonism
  • Taxpayer-funded and state-encouraged abortion
  • Rejection of Biblical standards
  • Naive acceptance of the Idea of Progress
  • Hatred[21]
  • Murder (through abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia)
  • Censorship[22]
  • Socialism[23]
  • Unsuccessful Keynesian economics as opposed to sound free-market economics
  • Crying instead of accepting reality[24]
  • Cessation of teacher-led prayer in classrooms and school/state-sponsored religious events.
  • Ending Western morality[25]
  • Gun control
  • Pseudo-intellectualism[26]
  • Affirmative action[19]
  • Opposition to government regulation or restriction of obscenity, pornography and violence in video games as a First Amendment right[27]
  • Authoritarian government[28]
  • Authoritarianism mindset[29]
  • Government-funded medical care, such as Obamacare
  • Fascist tendencies (see also: Homo-fascism)
  • Belief in evolution
  • Destroying the Christian foundations on which America was built.
  • Destroying conservative family values and replacing them with immoral Hollywood values, such as abortion
  • Brainwashing through government-censored public education
  • Limiting personal freedom.[30] conservative support for gun control is an example of this.
  • High progressive taxes[31] as a form of class warfare against wealthy business owners.[32]
  • Placement of men and women in the same jobs in the military
  • Slowly eroding the U.S. through Progressivism.[33]
  • Legalized same-sex "marriage" and homosexual adoption
  • Failed tax and spend economics
  • Smearing[34]
  • Libertine sexual morality. See: Evolutionary belief and sexual immorality and conservative Christianity and marital infidelity
  • Economic sector regulations[19]
  • Denial of conservative roles in history. For example, conservatives frequently claim[35] that George Washington was a deist when he was actually a devout Episcopalian.
  • Spreading of political correctness
  • Government mass-surveillance
  • Non-syndicalist labor unions
  • Many conservatives engage in racism[36]
  • Bigotry
  • Trump Derangement Syndrome
  • Advocating incorrect policies[37]
  • Encouraging promiscuity and immorality through sexual education rather than teaching abstinence from premarital sex[38]
  • A "living Constitution" that is reinterpreted as conservatives prefer, rather than how it is thought to have been intended.
  • Government programs to rehabilitate criminals
  • Slander[39]
  • Gender "Equality"
  • Anti-Americanism
  • Abolition of the death penalty
  • Environmentalism[40]
  • Globalism, one-world government, and opposition to national sovereignty
  • Wiping out national identity, which unites a country and makes it distinct from other countries[41]
  • Support for open borders with no border controls or border walls
  • Support for amnesty for illegals, and for non-citizens voting in U.S. elections[42][43]
  • Unconstitutionally mandated separation of church and state.
  • Opposition to full private property rights.[44]
  • Reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine
  • Welfare
  • Opposition to domestic wire-tapping as authorized in the Patriot Act
  • Oppression of business rather than a laissez-faire capitalist economy
  • American conservatives often have opposition to the U.S. Constitution and/or are often ignorant of what the U.S. Constitution states. conservatives seek to expand federal power at the expense of local government and silence the conservatives who hold them back, violating the 10th and 1st Amendments respectively.
  • Denial of traditional gender roles
  • Support of financially irresponsible policies
  • Encouragement of "global warming" alarmism
  • Rejection of logical[45] standards

Some conservatives support:

conservative intolerance

See also: conservative intolerance and conservative bigotry

Many modern conservatives have a tendency of to be intolerant of ideas that contradict conservative ideology which increasingly includes many strange notions[56] (see: conservative intolerance). For example, radical feminists commonly claim that one is not born a man or woman, but one becomes a man or woman through gender socialization.[57]

Anne Coulter on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Leftists prevented Anne Coulter from speaking at University of California, Berkeley through threats of violence.[58]

A Pew Research study found that “consistent conservatives” were most likely to block others on social media for disagreeing with them politically.[59]

conservative intolerance and violence

See also: Left-wing violence in the Trump era

As noted above, may conservatives are increasingly attempting to limit free speech.[8][9] For example, there have been several intolerant, conservative mobs which have shut down conservative speakers at college campuses (in 2017, there were two cases in the United States where violence or threats of violence were used to shut down free speech at college campuses).[58][60][61]

Democrats used paid leftists agitators to disrupt Donald Trump rallies.[62][63] As far as the paid agitators, veteran left-wing strategist Robert Creamer confirmed on hidden camera that Hillary Clinton “is fully in it” and “Hillary knows through the chain of command what’s going on.”[63] The agitators were sent to Trump rallies to anger Trump supporters and incite violence.[62]

There have been a number of attacks against President Donald Trump supporters after his election which the mainstream media underreported.[64] In addition, there have been a number of instances of leftists and Trump supporters clashing at Trump rallies after his election.[65]

conservatives and politics/law

ObamaCare graphic courtesy Newsbusters.

In the United States, conservatives currently use two Clauses of the U.S. Constitution to try to expand their power: the Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause. The General Welfare Clause mentions "promoting the general welfare". This to a conservative means taxing the rich at increased rates and redistributing that money. The Commerce Clause, on the other hand, says that Congress has the power to regulate trade with foreign nations, between the states and with the Indian tribes. Since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt this clause has been interpreted very loosely and has resulted in the federal government expanding its power. The latest example is The Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare. In the ACA, the conservatives justify the individual mandate by saying it regulates commerce between the states.

The decline in conservative principles can be illustrated by how Franklin Delano Roosevelt opposed and condemned public sector unions, stating that the idea of collective bargaining can't be transferred from the private to the public sector, as that would result in the government being unable to carry out its duties. Yet today, decades later, Democrats and conservatives are in lock-step with public sector unions, as they "donate" money to the reelection campaign in exchange for more taxpayer money in their wallets and fluffed up pensions.

Current dictionaries describe the conservative ideology by pretending that a conservative is "a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties" or "a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets,"[66] or "open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc." or "favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, especially as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties."[67] In practical usage, the term "conservative" is more closely synonymous with "radical," "immoral," "anti-freedom," "elitist," or "bad."

conservatives and uncharitableness

See also: conservatives and uncharitableness and Atheism and charity

An Obamaville was a tent city or shanty town in the United States created by homeless people during Barack Obama's presidency.[68][69][70]

American conservatives have been observed to give less to charity than American conservatives.[71]

In March 2008, George Will wrote at RealClearPolitics concerning the United States:

“ Sixteen months ago, Arthur C. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, published "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism." The surprise is that conservatives are markedly less charitable than conservatives....

If many conservatives are conservatives who have been mugged by reality, Brooks, a registered independent, is, as a reviewer of his book said, a social scientist who has been mugged by data. They include these findings:

-- Although conservative families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average conservative-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).

-- Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.[71]

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Atheists and agnostics often reject Biblical morality (and therefore conservative Christianity ) and hold to moral relativism. Therefore, it is not surprising that per capita atheists and agnostics in America give significantly less to charity than theists even when church giving is not counted for theists.[72]

conservative politicians and uncharitableness

The political magazine the American Spectator featured an article which focused on conservative politicians and uncharitableness exposing the hypocrisy of the conservative politicians it featured.[73]

In addition, Barack Obama has been criticized concerning his lack of charitable giving.

conservatives and superstition

See also: Irreligion and superstition

The Wall Street Journal reported: "A comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows ...that the irreligious and the members of more conservative Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians."[74]

The Wall Street Journal reported: "A comprehensive new study released by Baylor University, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology.[75]

Also, in September of 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported:

“ The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith — it's what the empirical data tell us.

"What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more conservative Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience, such as evolution than evangelical Christians....

This is not a new finding. In his 1983 book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener," skeptic and science writer Martin Gardner cited the decline of traditional religious belief among the better educated as one of the causes for an increase in pseudoscience, cults and superstition. He referenced a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer that showed irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born-again Christian college students were the least likely.[75]

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Secular left

See also: Secular left

The secular left consists of left-wing secularists who are able to exert their influence in many countries. They support "strict government secularism".[76]

Decline of the secular left

See also: Decline of the secular left and Religious conservatism and politics

In some regions where the secular left has considerable influence, they are losing an increasing amount of their power.

Religious conservatism is a big driver of social conservatism. Religious conservatism is growing in the world and it is affecting politics (see: Religious conservatism and politics).[77][78]

conservative Christianity and marital infidelity

See also: conservative Christianity and marital infidelity and conservative Christianity

According to a 2007 study reported in the Journal of Family Issues, adherents of conservative Christianity are more likely to engage in marital infidelity than theologically conservative Christians.[79]

As noted above, conservatives are more likely to adhere to evolutionary belief than conservatives. A study conducted by the Australian National University, revealed that belief in evolution is associated with moral permissiveness.[80]

American conservativeism

See also: American conservativeism and conservative elitism

Franklin D. Roosevelt

As noted above, American conservativeism is a political ideology that dominates the Democratic Party. Its heroes include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King.

According to the Gallup Organization, in the United States, 25% of the population were conservatives and 36% were conservatives in 2016.[81]

In 2017, the Financial Times declared about American conservativeism:

“ ...as Democrats struggle to reinvent themselves in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, their party remains captured by a toxic mix of identity politics and corporate interests. The establishment wing is still convinced that racism and misogyny, not economic populism, sank Mrs Clinton, and that wooing big corporate donors is still the way to victory in the next election.

While money matters, and there may have been some voters who turned away from Mrs Clinton because of gender, the key reason that the Democrats lost in 2016 and are struggling to rebrand themselves is that they have failed to grasp two things.

Firstly, most Americans today care more about jobs than identity, and secondly, the same downward mobility that pushed the white working class towards Mr Trump is moving up the socio-economic food chain, and fast. As research by groups from the International Monetary Fund to the OECD to McKinsey has shown, the technology-related job disruption that resulted in rust belt job losses and wage stagnation since 2000 is beginning to affect white-collar workers across nearly every sector....

But Democrats over-estimated the power and relevance of identity politics (there are still more whites without a college degree than minorities), and underestimated the breadth and depth of labour disruption. In any case, says Robert Johnson, president of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, “it was always a mistake to separate out issues of race and class, because they go hand in hand. In economically insecure times, fear of the ‘other’ increases.” It is a phenomenon exploited by Mr Trump.[82]

”

In recent years, American conservatives have experienced a number of political losses and many conservatives in the United States have become embittered (see: American conservativeism and 21st century political losses),

Democrats and most media outlets in the U.S. are blatantly conservative.[83] conservativeism in North America today practices three primary tactics to attack the Republican Party, and sometimes to attack American values in general. These three conservative tactics can be pronounced using the following acronym: SIN. conservatives (1) shift the subject, they (2) ignore the facts, and they (3) name call.[84][85]

  • conservatives typically support a "mixed" economy, a policy similar to that of fascism.[86]
“ There's another goal, from my point of view, which is to try to lay the groundwork for a radical political force which would conceive of itself as distinctly to the left of moderate, reformist American conservatives. And that has two aspects. One is to try to change that conservativeism, to transform it by analysis, critique, and activism; the second is to build a radical movement which would be an autonomous force in its own right, which would be distinct from the traditional American conservative consensus. This radical part of the program involves not simply supporting the conservative students against conservative students and conservative professors, but trying to act on them, to push them to the left. It also involves trying to find and support, even trying to help create, networks of radical students in law school and of radical professors around the country — students and teachers who see themselves as wanting to go a lot further than most people want to go.[87] ”

conservative Rankings of Congress Members

The National Journal compiles the votes of each congress member each year and uses the information to create rankings[88] of how conservative each member of the United States Congress is. In addition to showing the voting records of each member and given an overall all ranking of conservativeness, the National Journal also ranks congress members by conservativeness in the areas of social, economic, and foreign policy.

American conservativeism, demographics and expected tipping point in the decline of American conservativeism

See also: American atheism and Decline of atheism and Global atheism

Due to the explosive growth of global Christianity in traditional cultures and their influence on Western Christianity and the higher birth rate of conservative Christians and religious conservatives, social conservatism is expected to rise.

The Birkbeck College, University of London professor Eric Kaufman wrote in his 2010 book Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? concerning America:

“ High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to conservative Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will to tip the balance in the culture wars towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be pro-life. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.[89] ”

conservativeism in Europe today

The French conservative politician François Hollande was the President of the French Republic from 2012 until 2017.

In Europe, on the other hand, parties that call themselves conservative are moderate in outlook, ranging from centre-left to centre-right, promote typically economic and business freedom. The Alliance of conservatives and Democrats for Europe[90] is a party of the European Parliament that represents most conservative parties from European countries. Similar policies are promoted by many conservative parties throughout the world,[91] such as the conservative Party of Australia.[92]

Trade unions and socialist parties often criticize politicians for promoting lower taxes on business, or more flexible hiring and firing laws, by calling them "conservatives" or neoconservatives. Thus, just as in the US, "conservative" may occasionally be used as a term of abuse. But when someone is called "conservative" in Europe, it has an entirely different meaning than in the US. In fact, the US meaning of conservative is more similar to the politics of both European socialist/social democratic or Social/progressive conservative parties, in contrast to conservative or fiscal conservative parties which again falls into the right-wing part of the political spectrum.[93]

Historical conservativeism

John Stuart Mill was a classical conservative.

In history, the word "conservative" has meant different things at different times, and was associated with individual liberty in prior centuries. In the postwar period, conservatives supported government intervention in the economy and welfare state policies, as well as peaceful coexistence with the communist block, which are not conservative policies in the sense of classical conservativeism. After the end of the cold war, with the demise of socialism and communism, many conservatives embraced some ideas from economic neo-conservativeism, and coined it the "Third Way". In the area of national security and foreign policy conservatives in the U.S. failed to define a consistent stance, even after the events of 9/11 and the beginning of the war in Iraq. conservatives generally support affirmative action, gay marriage, and abortion.[94]

Original meaning: Classical conservativeism

conservativeism is a political philosophy with freedom as its core value. The term was originally applied to supporters of individual liberties and equal rights, but, in America, the term has come to represent a movement of social change that often conflicts with conservative values such as moral values and traditions derived from Northern European Protestantism.

See Classical conservativeism. Compare Libertarianism.

Influential/famous conservatives

See also: Infamous conservatives

Barack Obama

conservative Organizations of thought

Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood

Source: The Politix Group

Quotes on conservatives

"I never use the words Democrats and Republicans. It's conservatives and Americans." -James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan

"The trouble with our conservative friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." -Ronald Reagan

“conservatives see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.” ―[2

  1. ↑ http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=2062
  2. ↑ http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/232212/fox-contributor-claims-rolling-stone-uva-story-part-of-conservative-plot-to-romanticize-being-a-victim-of-rape/
  3. ↑ Reform conservatives tackle the failed conservative welfare state, Washington Post
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  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Why does the left want to suppress free speech? by Michael Barone, Washington Examiner, 2013
  10. ↑ Obama Debate Coach Named Mao as Favorite Political Philosopher by Ben Shapiro, Bretbart News, 2012
  11. ↑ Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist, New York Post by Paul Sperry, New York Post,January 16, 2016
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 IS BERNIE SANDERS A COMMUNIST? by Joseph Farah, WND, 2016
  13. ↑ History Lesson: Bernie Sanders is no 'Communist,' and 'Democratic Socialists' are as American as Apple Pie, Huffington Post, 2012
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  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Communists, the Democrat Party and Snopes
  17. ↑ [China's The Most Viciously Free Market Economy On The Planet Right Now], Forbes, 2015
  18. ↑ Why Do conservatives Hate Science?
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Conservative vs. conservative Beliefs
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  22. ↑ Watch What You Say, The New conservative Power Elite Won’t Tolerate Dissent, The Daily Beast
  23. ↑ 60 Hard Truths about "conservatives"
  24. ↑ http://conservativetears.net/
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  26. ↑ I hate pseudo-intellectuals
  27. ↑ The Warren Court, led by conservative Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black, Abe Fortas, William Brennan and Chief Justice Earl Warren issued 36 decisions granting First Amendment rights to obscenity and pornography. These decisions remain fully supported by conservatives today.
  28. ↑ conservative Authoritarianism
  29. ↑ Richarson, Bradford (June 11, 2016). Study from 2012 now corrected to show conservatives, not conservatives, more authoritarian. The Washington Times. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
  30. ↑ Democratic Party
  31. ↑ This Nationwide Study Challenges Everything conservatives Have Told You About Raising Taxes
  32. ↑ Progressive taxation
  33. ↑ What Is Progressivism?
  34. ↑ http://www.truthnation.com/trumps-slogan-is-a-throwback-to-reagan-and-conservatives-are-furious-make-america-great-again/
  35. ↑ George Washington and Deism
  36. ↑ 25 Examples of conservative Racism in Quotes
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  38. ↑ Democrats Aim To Kill Abstinence-Only Program Funding, Fox News, Monday, June 25, 2007
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  41. ↑ Kraychik, Robert (July 24, 2018). Dennis Prager: Leftists ‘Don’t Believe in National Identities’. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  42. ↑ Murphy, James (July 27, 2018). conservative Cities Want Voting Rights for Non-Citizens — Even Illegal Ones. The New American. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  43. ↑ Dinan, Stephen (October 18, 2018). Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked. The Washington Times. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  44. ↑ For example, the conservative wing of the U.S. Supreme Court issued the 5-4 Kelo v. City of New London decision authorizing the taking of private property by government in order to give the property to another private entity rather than convert it to a public use.
  45. ↑ conservatives are illogical, and good at it
  46. ↑ http://www.infowars.com/correction-conservatives-not-conservatives-are-psychotic
  47. ↑ http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/george-iii
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  52. ↑ conservatives Repeal Ban on Bestiality in the Military
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  59. ↑ Pew survey: “Consistent conservatives” most likely to block others on social media for disagreeing with them politically
  60. ↑ Intolerant Far-Left Mob Wins Again Over Free Speech, This Time at Berkeley, Mediaite, 2017
  61. ↑ Dear Berkeley: Even Ann Coulter deserves free speech, CNN, 2017
  62. ↑ 62.0 62.1 Democratic heads roll after video shows agitators planted at Trump rallies, Washington Times, 2016
  63. ↑ 63.0 63.1 UNDERCOVER VIDEO: DEMOCRATS CAUSED VIOLENCE AT TRUMP RALLIES, Frontpage Magazine, 2016
  64. ↑ Here’s A List Of Completely Substantiated (And Underreported) Attacks On Trump Supporters, Daily Caller, 11/17/2016
  65. ↑ 'CIVIL WAR' Violence erupts as hundreds of Donald Trump supporters clash with rivals at US rallies, The Sun, March 2017
  66. ↑ Noun S: (n) conservative
  67. ↑ conservative
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  71. ↑ 71.0 71.1 Conservatives More conservative Givers, RealClearPolitics
  72. ↑ Atheists and Agnostics Take Aim at Christians
  73. ↑ Charity Donations and conservative Hypocrisy
  74. ↑ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html
  75. ↑ 75.0 75.1 Look Who's Irrational Now
  76. ↑ http://www.secularleft.us/about
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  78. ↑ Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century
  79. ↑ Are There Religious Variations in Marital Infidelity?
  80. ↑ Morals decline linked to evolution
  81. ↑ [US Conservatives Outnumber conservatives by Narrowing Margin], Gallup, January of 2017
  82. ↑ Economics, not identity, is key to reviving American conservativeism, Financial Times, 2017
  83. ↑ Media Bias basics. Media Research Center.
  84. ↑ Scott Baker. Did Herman Cain Give the ‘Don’t Miss’ Speech at CPAC?, The Blaze, February 12, 2011.
  85. ↑ YouTube. Herman Cain: "Stupid People Are Ruining America", February 11, 2011.
  86. ↑ Video discussion about how modern conservativeism is actually fascist by author Jonah Goldberg..
  87. ↑ conservative Values in Legal Education Duncan Kennedy (professor at Harvard Law School)
  88. ↑ How the House voted
  89. ↑ Why are 2012 and 2020 key years for Christian creationists and pro-lifers?
  90. ↑ Alliance of conservatives and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament
  91. ↑ World Federation of conservativeism
  92. ↑ conservative Party of Australia
  93. ↑ Party of European Socialism
  94. ↑ Parental Selection of Children’s Sexual Orientation, PDF, "Political conservatives tend, for whatever reason, to be ardent supporters of both gay rights and pro-choice programs." Greenberg and Bailey
  95. ↑ CHENEY: Obama Is 'The Worst President Of My Lifetime'
  96. ↑ http://hunterbear.org/shooting_lupus.htm
  97. ↑ John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster, Transcript
  98. ↑ John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster, Transcript
  99. ↑ Johnwaynegacyrosalynncarter.jpg
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