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Conservatism. Used to be a conservative around being 18-20. Then I left it after I saw what giving 2/3rd of the seats to Orbán did in my country. Now I'm not only an anti-fascist, but I also actively oppose conservatism.
When we thought fascism would never come back, we had to learn fascism was just conservatism at its logical extremes.
Sounds like you've seen the worst conservatives have to offer.
It's sad because there are perfectly sane and decent conservatives all around who aren't out to break the whole system or aggravate you. They just want lower taxes/regulation.
I don't think wanting less regulations is very sane, tbf. Not in this day and age. Not with every other industrialist swapping cereal with sawdust or another flavor of killing people through cost cutting
To me, lowering taxes and lessening regulations sounds like "We don't want to break the whole system or aggravate you. We just want to make the system worse and make life harder for people who don't have money".
The way I see it is that we could have lower taxes for working class people by taxing the rich more and reducing corporate welfare. We wouldn't even have to compromise on our systems. If you're in favour of those, that's awesome -- I haven't met very many conservatives who think that way.
But what's wrong with regulations? Regulations are what stop corporations from cutting corners on health and safety in the name of profits. And we can see from practices around the world that not only does violating these tend NOT to sway public opinion enough that businesses will stop doing harmful things, but they will knowingly do these things and cause harm to people who couldn't have known any better beforehand.
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