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Now? I never called those authoritarian cultists "conservatives." I'd like to reserve the term for people like myself, advocates of fiscal restraint, a strong defense and law-and-order, with leaders as accountable as everyone else. But sadly, almost no one uses that term in that sense anymore, so I just don't use it at all. Same with "liberals," another term that has been redefined to the point of being meaningless at best.

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Chem - as in the way the words communist and socialist are spit out as curse word devoid of any of their original meaning. Conservative once stood for certain principles. Now claimed by too many people with none

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