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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Conservative?

Do you tend to blame poor people for being poor?
Do you tend to resent subsidies to poor people for food and shelter?
Do you secretly wish everyone in America was an Anglo?
Do you believe males should be able to limit the ability of females to make decisions about their bodies?
Do you want to see your particular religious beliefs enacted into law?
Do you believe we are a Christian nation rather than a nation of religious freedom and tolerance?
Do you believe that private sector, marketplace competition should be the model for public services like schools, police, prisons, armed forces, etc.?
Do you believe improving the likelihood of private sector, corporate profit is in the best interest of our nation and most likely will create the highest standard of living for the most people?
Do you believe that those who pursue increased income are likely to consistently make decisions that are ethical and protect the common good?
Do you believe we must highly regulate public education to ensure that students learn content more than critical thinking and problem solving?
Do you believe that leaving health care in the hands of the profit motivated insurance, medical and pharmaceutical industries is in the best interest of the overall health care of US citizens?
Do you believe that those who pursue a life of service to others in education, nursing, child protective services, etc., are somehow losers compared to those who pursue maximizing their income?
Do you believe in local control, even if local control is discriminatory?
Do you believe that promoting athletics in public schools will have a more positive impact on students long term than promoting academics and the arts?
Do you believe privately held companies should be allowed to discriminate based on the religious beliefs of the owner or CEO?
Do you believe that there should not be a limit on the amount of money corporations and wealthy individuals contribute to political campaigns?
Do you believe that what is good for business is good for the USA?
Do you believe that the regulations monitoring and ensuring the safety of our water, our food, our atmosphere and the safety of our work place should be eliminated as it creates too great a burden on producers?
Do you believe that there is one dominant US culture and everyone who lives here or comes here should subscribe to that culture in ways that include such attributes as religion, dress, art, and language?
Do you believe the most important part of the federal budget should be defense spending?
Do you believe that a basis of our foreign policy should be to avoid interactions with other nations and alliances as much as possible?
Do you believe that a basis of our foreign policy should include our ability to tell other sovereign nations what to do and how to behave?
Do you believe the widening gap between the wealthy and the middle and lower class is not an issue?
Do you believe that the right to own a firearm supersedes the right to public safety and protection of the common good?
Do you believe the protection of the fossil fuel industry is more important than our global climate?
Do you believe that the right to peaceably assemble should only apply to protesters whose position is aligned with your position?
Do you believe that we should limit the rights of anyone who does not subscribe to fierce patriotism, Christianity, and other conservative attributes?
Do you make over $365,000 per year?
Do you believe Jesus is a conservative?


No.  But if yes, then you are a conservative.  

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