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akoboldfrying • today at 11:54 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Deregulation, smaller government, and reducing bureaucracy aren't conservative values.

They're fiscally conservative values, as you likely already know. Social and fiscal conservatism are correlated, as you likely also already know.

In order for you to make this statement, you had to take a word ("conservative") that can be interpreted in one of two well-known ways ("social conservative", "fiscal conservative"), and pretend that when I used that word, I must have meant the way that doesn't make sense, instead of the way that obviously does.


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hhjinks • today at 12:09 PM

Sure, fair enough, but in my defense, "conservative" used to mean fiscal conservativism is a very American concept. I wouldn't say 'conservative-minded "normal people"' in a discussion about the AfD necessarily or obviously invokes the idea of fiscal conservativism.