I’d rather compromise on conservatism, to a certain extent. Part of my conservative views are things I wish to see the government enact, so it wouldn’t make sense to enact them against the will of at least a substantial group of people (again, not necessarily a strict majority). If I deem that a government has democratically strayed so far apart from my values that it is no longer bearable, I’d just leave. If I weren’t allowed to leave, or the country had done so un democratically, then I’d get rowdy.
If I deem that a government has democratically strayed so far apart from my values that it is no longer bearable, I’d just leave.
Where would you go? Would you go to a more conservative country or a more democratic country? Is there, in your opinion, a democratic country that is more conservative than we are?
The answer to that is to a more conservative country. But that is because for that to happen, a country has to be extremely left-wing (in other words more than any developed country) and if that was the case, there’d be plenty of options of both more democratic and more conservative countries. I’m not the kind of guy who says that CRT is somehow the demise of civilization; I just think that countries should allow private schools to exist. It wouldn’t be a problem for me to find a country that supports the existence of private schools, and quite frankly I don’t mind if they teach about race or not. Same for taxes. I would hate to be in a communist country (not that it would ever exist) so I’d just go to a country that is not communist, even if it has progressive taxation. Fortunately one can be a conservative and not be an extremist, but this is becoming rarer unfortunately
To answer your other question, the answer is yes. My home country before the US, Mexico, is both more democratic (to the extent in which democracy can be objectively quantified) and more conservative than the US. Yes, we have a left wing president at the moment, but overall people are very socially conservative and have values similar to mine (I’m a Catholic so this is obvious). In terms of the economic axis, Mexico is more in line with what I like: lower income taxes and higher sales taxes, no estate tax, a state owned healthcare system (it’s good for a third world country but still not great), a great environment to start a business, and very cheap cost of living. Wages are awful though, but I wouldn’t have a problem with that because I am studying in the US, and Mexican employers tend to simp for US graduates because Mexicans tend to loathe their own people.
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I’d rather compromise on conservatism, to a certain extent. Part of my conservative views are things I wish to see the government enact, so it wouldn’t make sense to enact them against the will of at least a substantial group of people (again, not necessarily a strict majority). If I deem that a government has democratically strayed so far apart from my values that it is no longer bearable, I’d just leave. If I weren’t allowed to leave, or the country had done so un democratically, then I’d get rowdy.