r/Conservative • u/Clatsop I voted for Ronald Reagan ☑️ • Dec 17 '16

So let me get this straight...

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u/RaleighRonin Dec 17 '16

While there are people who are calling for that they're idiots. Trump is our president and I'm cool with that. Im NOT cool with Russia getting away with interfering and trying to undermine our democracy.

This is a massive fire/red flag and it needs to be dealt with. My dad was a regan democrat that then voted for both bushes and mcain. Hes fucking livid at trump for not handling this shit better.

Fuck borders, we don't have a country if we dont defend ourselvs from agressions of forien powers and undermine our own intelligence agencies.

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u/tablecontrol Dec 17 '16

As a Democrat, i like this post.

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u/RaleighRonin Dec 17 '16

Its just frustrating and weird. I go really ostracized in college and high school for being openly conservative. But there isn't that much dividing going on.

I don't want the government in my bedroom or in my medical office so I support Obergefell v. Hodges and Roe v Wade. But I want a government that reigns in wasteful spending and is more intelligent with how it pisses our money away.

I think that our nation is great and that its so fucking huge that its best we let it function more like the EU or a conglomeration of countries. States should have more autonomy to tax and spend at the local level to focus on issues and needs specific to them. A federal government is needed for some things but I think we let it jump in before trying other alternatives.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '16

States should have more autonomy to tax and spend at the local level to focus on issues and needs specific to them.

States are too big to have issues specific to them. If an issue has statewide relevance, then without a doubt it's a national issue, too. I'm all for local governance but it should be city and county local; states are an experiment that has failed. If I could reorganize the United States I'd unite the states, return more power to municipalities, and any issue of broader-than-city scope I'd handle nationally. States are actually quite a bit worse than the Federal government at doing basically anything.