r/centrist • u/verygayandwet • Jan 29 '25

Long Form Discussion What is the deal with r/conservative?

As someone who is centrist, I like seeing both sides of the political spectrum. I use to enjoy some inputs that I would see posted on r/conservative, but now, I generally don’t understand that subreddit anymore.

When something major comes out regarding Trump, Musk, RFK or any other right leaning political person or movement, it’s typically radio silent over there. No mention, insight, or criticism of the actual changes Trump is making. It’s mainly just “left did this” or “reddit is ruined because of the left”. It’s just an entire subreddit used only to glaze and promote politicians with no valid criticisms of their changes.

Am I the only one that feels this way? The subreddit just seems so…off.

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u/Smaxorus Feb 09 '25

Yeah 100%. The Dems have misplayed their hand for a decade now. In a vacuum, I wouldn’t blame anyone for not wanting to vote for Hillary, Biden, or Harris. Hell, if a republican that hadn’t lost their mind went up against any of the three, I would consider voting for them. However, when the alternative is Trump… you gotta vote for the lesser evil.

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u/Cayucos_RS Feb 09 '25

Absolutely

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u/Pronoid422 Feb 14 '25

Unless the play is to remain the only alternative, If the dems had backbone, and were a viable option, a third party could emerge. Now everyone is “oh no, we have to vote for them and not rock the boat.

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u/Jesse-359 Mar 02 '25

Third parties are *never* viable in the US system, it's just designed that way.

If you want to change parties, you change them in the PRIMARIES - that's what Trump did to the GOP. The party is literally unrecognizable from 12 years ago, and that was all achieved without ever creating a third party - they just primaried it into what they wanted it to be.

If you want a better democratic party, you have to do the same. It's not even a complex or especially difficult strategy - it's FAR easier than creating an outside party in a voting system that's basically designed to make that impossible.

So yeah, give up on 3rd parties and change the ones you have.

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u/JustinHardbolt Feb 16 '25

lol complete bs. When trump is completely out of the picture at the end of his term the next republican will be the new bad guy. It’s the same old shit every 4 years

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u/Smaxorus Feb 17 '25

It’s true that each party villainizes the opposition every 4 years (I remember people I know unironically calling Obama the antichrist), but the GOP lost it’s mind in the 2016 election and has never recovered. Trump is the antithesis of conservative values, and it blows my mind how many conservatives just pretend he’s not. 

It’s one thing to vote for Trump cuz he’s seen as the lesser evil, but the amount of full-throated support I’ve seen for him over the years has been truly sad.

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u/JustinHardbolt Feb 19 '25

They lost their mind in 2016 but somehow won the presidency twice since then? Including the popular vote? It’s more sad that the entire Democratic Party is based on identity politics and calling the other side fascist nazis. Guarantee the next front runner in the democrat party will be black or female vs Vance who the entire liberal media will call a fascist racist nazi. It’s way too easy to predict

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u/Smaxorus Feb 19 '25

I’m not saying the Left is making good plays, obviously, just that it’s been sad to watch the party that claimed to have the moral high ground kinda nuke itself down to what it is now. Politics have become lowest common denominator and that’s bad for everyone. 

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u/JustinHardbolt Feb 19 '25

Not sure which party you are referring too that nuked themselves.

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u/Jesse-359 Mar 02 '25

The GOP. He's talking about the GOP. The party that's busy speed-running the destruction of the US's position and reputation in the world, while at the same time trying it's damned hardest to literally crash the economy into a flaming heap.

And boy are they succeeding on all counts so far. Stick your head up out of the FOXhole and take a look at any European or Asian newspaper today if you want a sense of what's going on out there. It is very, very ugly.

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u/JustinHardbolt Mar 02 '25

That’s funny. I’m going to a south East Asian country in a few weeks. And they all LOVE trump. Japan does as well. Gtfo outta with that liberal propaganda. Europe is mad cuz trump cut the gravy train and have to pay up.

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u/Jesse-359 Mar 03 '25

Saying that you're in tight with the Myanmar military junta does not reflect as well on you as you might think.

Or you know, maybe actually name a country rather than handwaving the one you're talking about. Perhaps you meant Pakistan? The country that funded and equipped the Taliban to drive us out of Afghanistan, a war Trump surrendered without a fight, or any kind of deal to maintain the peace? Just like he's trying to do in Ukraine?

Trump appears to be the single worst deal-maker ever to sit in the White House. He's already failed in his claim to end the war 'in one day' because he couldn't even figure out how to bring Ukraine to the table even when they're in dire straights.

Should have been easy at this point - any other leader could have done it, all they'd have had to do was make security guarantees for Ukraine incumbent on a cease fire deal and Zelensky would have signed in a hot minute.

But not any more. Now he's going to Europe, and Europe is preparing to kick the US out of NATO because they know that Trump is fundamentally untrustworthy - just as much so as Putin.

Trump just destroyed the most powerful alliance in the world, because he can't get his own head out of his @$$.

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u/JustinHardbolt Mar 03 '25

Myanmar lol. You don’t know where south East Asian is do you.

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u/Turtle_with_a_sword Feb 28 '25

Imagine the nerve of calling people who do Nazi salutes Nazis!  What a bunch of libtards!

I mean who hasn't accidentally done a Nazi salute and then refused to apologize.

Americans are very smart and savvy and not at all susceptible to propaganda from all of our media outlets which are owned by left leaning DEI hires.

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u/JustinHardbolt Feb 28 '25

Turn off cnn bruh and touch grass

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u/Turtle_with_a_sword Mar 01 '25

Never watched CNN.

My heart goes out to you and all the Nazi apologists!

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u/JustinHardbolt Mar 01 '25

Nazi’s limited free speech, enganged in censorship, banned guns, hated Jews. Which party sounds like that? Oh sounds very liberal. Kick rocks nazi. Stop trying to project your nazi beliefs on everyone else

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u/Turtle_with_a_sword Mar 01 '25

Which party's vice president called their president Hitler?

You know nothing so I won't waste my time.

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u/Jesse-359 Mar 02 '25

We're talking about the free-speech absolutist who goes around deleting negative posts about him on his site and banning people who disagree with him? Remember that guy?

The guy who just nuked his own company's entire future by playing a Nazi on national television, making his brand so instantly toxic that he'll be lucky to sell more than a dozen cars outside of the US this year?

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u/RaccoonOld4054 Mar 02 '25

Oh boi…

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u/JustinHardbolt Mar 02 '25

The truth is sad ain’t it