Those sound like nice principles, but I'll just quickly run through them and comment on how I see conservative noisemakers like the Heritage Foundation actually acting on them (based on the reports I hear in the media):
Less government This means two things: less regulation on corporations, and not making (or honoring) commitments to spend money to help people.
Lower taxes This is 90% of their agenda, really. And by "lower taxes", they mean on corporations and rich people; they don't complain nearly as much about the social security tax rate as they do about the capital gains rate.
Personal responsibility This means that rich people shouldn't have to pay taxes to support people who are less fortunate. It never seems to mean that rich people who screw up other people's lives should actually be held personally responsible.
Individual freedom This means the freedom to make a buck in any way you can come up with, but not the freedom for me to ignore your religion's rules.
Stronger familes I can't think of any way conservatives actually support this. They oppose family planning, preferring people to be stuck with kids they didn't want and can't support. They oppose anything that helps people at the bottom of the heap earn enough money to actually support a family (higher minimum wage, unions, good public education, affordable higher education), and they also oppose any social spending to make up for what they can't earn.
Domestic tranquility I think that means they don't like it when poor people protest, or have the temerity to actually try to vote.
National defense This means having enough military power that they don't have to care what anyone else in the world thinks about the behavior of our corporations.
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Less government This means two things: less regulation on corporations, and not making (or honoring) commitments to spend money to help people.
Lower taxes This is 90% of their agenda, really. And by "lower taxes", they mean on corporations and rich people; they don't complain nearly as much about the social security tax rate as they do about the capital gains rate.
Personal responsibility This means that rich people shouldn't have to pay taxes to support people who are less fortunate. It never seems to mean that rich people who screw up other people's lives should actually be held personally responsible.
Individual freedom This means the freedom to make a buck in any way you can come up with, but not the freedom for me to ignore your religion's rules.
Stronger familes I can't think of any way conservatives actually support this. They oppose family planning, preferring people to be stuck with kids they didn't want and can't support. They oppose anything that helps people at the bottom of the heap earn enough money to actually support a family (higher minimum wage, unions, good public education, affordable higher education), and they also oppose any social spending to make up for what they can't earn.
Domestic tranquility I think that means they don't like it when poor people protest, or have the temerity to actually try to vote.
National defense This means having enough military power that they don't have to care what anyone else in the world thinks about the behavior of our corporations.