Acccording to Subredditstats, this is the most common Keyword on r/Conservative. This is what conservatism has come down to folks. Pathetic.

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image showing Acccording to Subredditstats, this is the most common Keyword on r/Conservative. This is what conservatism has come down to folks. Pathetic.

Malaix on October 18th, 2019 at 12:31 UTC »

Surprised Muslims and Illegals isn't up there. Whats up with bicycles?

BoinkBoinkEtAliae on October 18th, 2019 at 13:08 UTC »

The fact that we are number 2 is hilarious.

PMurHotSauceRecipe on October 18th, 2019 at 13:56 UTC »

R/conservative talks about trans people more than some trans rights activists I know. This is what freedom looks like. People doing something that, while you may not be comfortable with it, doesn't actually affect you in any way. A person changing their gender expression doesn't harm anyone.

Conservatism is not actually interested in freedom or personal expression. It's for people who want to hold the world still. But they need to cloak themselves in the tradition of liberty so they have to spend an enormous amount of energy convincing themselves that a tiny minority using different pronouns is an existential threat to society.

For all the ink that is spilled in opinion columns about how democrats are scaring away voter with progressive politics (they're not but that's another issue), there's very little about how republicans have scared away the LGBTQ+ community and their allies with their insane anti-gay and anti-trans policies. I know a lot of people in the community who are borderline libertarian but for whom voting republican is unthinkable because the party wants to destroy them and their friends.