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I mean like this: "Realized that most of these programs are not meant to help anyone, merely to control people and make them dependent. I was forced to reconsider everything I'd once believed. I developed a profound distrust of government regardless of the philosophy of the people in power. I remained a liberal on civil-rights issues, became a conservative on defense, and a semi-libertarian on all other matters." - Dean Koontz. Am I wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think most users on here lean left one way or another.

I'm a conservative and that's not popular here at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like an honest discussion. What opinions do you hold that are conservative, which me as liberal leaning would disagree with you on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm anti-abortion in most cases, though I do see room for exceptions. I'm for a small government, though living in Australia I have seen that there is a place for the government to provide certain services that tend towards monopolies or that are vital to national security, like utilities, defense, etc. I don't agree with how we currently approach transgenderism: I believe it's a mental illness with devastating effects on its sufferers and that surgery and drugs are a blunt way to try and deal with it. I'm anti-immigration on a mass-scale, and I think allowing manufacturing to be decimated by globalism was a big mistake that we shouldn't have allowed.

That's just a few off the top of my head.