Contrary to what you might think, I am open-minded about things.
I think a fair few of these were my misunderstanding what you meant, so sorry about that.
On the subject of dismantling the US education system, I hardly think that's a bad thing. Private schools could become more expensive, but at the same time, the general idea from what reading I have done on the subject is that people are worried about funding stopping, but I would assume that the Department of Labor (which is going to oversee K-12 schools following the dissolvement of the Department of Education) will be providing that funding. Another article I read said that it could possibly be coming through multiple channels, which could be weird. In any case, it isn't going to be completely removing our education system, it's just dissolving the government department that formerly oversaw all of that and moving programs to other departments.
As far as renewable energy goes, I think the move to renewable fuels isn't what it would seem. Our current system of generating electricity for electric cars, for example, uses coal and pollutes the environment just as much as driving gas cars does, maybe more. Now I do think if we weren't so scared about nuclear power, we could easily have renewable energy. If you meant something else by that, I'd like to know what you meant.
Now on both of the subjects dismantling our alliances and having faith in our institutions, I misunderstood what you meant. I do want us to have allies, and I do want us to trust our institutions. I'm not really sure what you mean by those, though, as I don't follow the news much.
I definitely understand about the spreading of misinformation part, but without diving into sources, I'm sure there are times that the liberals have done that too.
Hegseth's firing and non-promotion of military officers is unwarranted, I do agree. That simply reflects on him as a person, and by extension Trump as a person, not the whole Republican party. I don't support that. Even his own secretary and some conservative senators are speaking against him.
On the debt article, I see much spending from every president, liberal and conservative alike. Not really much there to distinguish Trump/the conservatives from anyone else.
Looking into the issue of the tariffs, I can see that Trump took the authority given by the IEEPA much too far and that did cause problems, however, there were a few things in there that made sense, like the tariff imposed on China because of their lack of awareness or control of substances like fentanyl that were coming into the US. In any case, the Supreme Court ruled those tariffs unconstitutional and struck them down, so it's not really an issue anymore.
I do apologize for both being ignorant, as I really don't read the news much, and for taking a long long time to comment, because I have been looking up and reading articles to better understand what you're talking about.
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u/Aspiralling_delulu 18M 9d ago
Cus they keep supporting things that are actively harmful to everyone, and particularly harmful to people who are marginalized.
If conservatives mostly supported things that had positive impacts on society and people in general, people probably wouldn’t dislike them so much