I was replying to pshipkey not the original post. I don’t happen to vote solely based on party either. I was not trying to make a blanket statement about independents. I do believe the “fiscally conservative” label is used incorrectly by many.
“There are lots of people who are socially liberal but economically conservative”
In New England, those folks are known as “Yankee Republicans.”
I am socially liberal and (generally) conservative with regard to economic issues.
Republicans have not been economically conservative in decades. They don’t even know what it would look like, because they are the furthest thing from conservative (the root word being ‘conserve’).
I have no idea what “conservative economics” would even look like coming from Republicans - and funny thing, neither do they!
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Rather than being economically conservative or economically liberal, how about being economically literate? That means understanding modern money theory instead of believing that a country that is sovereign in its own currency is just like a family that is not. (By the way “modern” in Modern Money Theory means understanding money as it truly is and has been for the last 4,000 or so years.)
Believing that balancing the federal budget is analogous to balancing the family budget is to be economically ignorant, not right or left.
Dude, please. You are a tiny, tiny minority, vanishingly small even by Oregon standards. And, by your own admission, you aren’t even a Republican anymore.
Case closed. Sweeping generalization stands.
Got any stats to back up this up? Or did you just pull it out yer arse?
Best inane follow up and support for an inane generalization that I’ve seen in many years.
Dude indeed.