In any event, until recently, if talking to a conservative, one would hear concern about the rule of law and constitutional governance; not so much anymore. A conservative advocated free trade; not so much anymore. A conservative would oppose the government ownership of the means of production; not so much anymore. A conservative cared about America's role in the world, a strong national defence, strong alliances, and collective security; not so much anymore. Conservatives cared about norms and tradition and process; not so much anymore.
A conservative would express support for the Second Amendment, sanctity of life, small government, balanced budgets, reducing the national debt, states rights, restricting immigration and a secure border, and law and order. Conservatives still care about some of these things and still profess to care about some of them, but most are not the issues that animate conservatives any longer.
Now, the way to know you are talking to a conservative is if they express support for any number of weird conspiracy theories. Some of these are only believed by a very few people, but if someone expresses the belief, you can rest assured you are talking to a conservative. There may be a couple of these that liberals or nonpolitical people also express a belief in, but more often than not, if someone expresses the following beliefs, you can know you are talking to a conservative:
- The 2020 election was stolen. It probably involved mail-in voting fraud, widespread noncitizen voting, and "vote-flipping" by voting machines.
- The 2020 election was stolen, and George Soros engineered it.
- The Charlie Kirk assassination was not what it seemed but the result of a conspiracy. You can choose the conspirators: the Jews, Israel, an Egyptian military contractor, the French Foreign Legion, staffers within Turning Point USA, Erica Kirk, the CIA, the Trump administration, Kash Patel, Calvary Church, or some other entity.
- Chemtrails are real. That is not water vapor you are seeing in the sky.
- Chemicals purposely released into the water and maybe the air are turning frogs gay and lowering testosterone levels in American males, making them docile and willing to do things like wear masks during the COVID-19 epidemic.
- More people died from the COVID vaccine than died from COVID.
- The COVID-19 pandemic was a bioweapon engineered by China.
- The COVID epidemic was a hoax and no worse than the flu.
- Vaccines cause autism.
- The Kennedy assassination was the result of a conspiracy. You choose: the CIA, the Communist, the Anti-Communist, Lyndon Johnson, or the Mafia.
- The moon landing was faked.
- 9-11 was an inside job.
- A half-century ago, the Jewish state deliberately attacked the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War.
- There is a vast child sex-trafficking ring in the nation, and it involves a lot of Democrats, elites, and Hollywood types. They have sex with children, and maybe they kill them and drink their blood.
- The elites, probably Jews, are working on "The Great Replacement" to reduce the influence of white Americans by replacing them with non-white immigrants.
- Obama was ineligible to be President of the United States because he was not a natural-born citizen of the United States as required by the Constitution, but was born in Kenya.
- Michelle Obama is really a man.
- Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, is really a man.
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