# Are there any conservative policies that were actually good?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 8, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-conservative-policies-that-were-actually-good/765324 "2016-09-08T10:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-conservative-policies-that-were-actually-good/765324/101 "2016-09-12T03:41:27Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> I know what you’re getting at-- it’s just wrong. You are confusing conservatives with Luddites.

I think his metaphor was talking more about social change rather than technological change.

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**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-conservative-policies-that-were-actually-good/765324/102 "2016-09-12T12:58:47Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> I know what you’re getting at-- it’s just wrong. You are confusing conservatives with Luddites.

I wonder how the two are different.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-conservative-policies-that-were-actually-good/765324/103 "2016-09-12T13:17:45Z")

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> [@Drum\_God](#):
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> I wonder how the two are different.

A Luddite just practices a very extreme form of conservatism. Not in the “right wing” sense, but in the sense of resistance to societal change.

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**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-conservative-policies-that-were-actually-good/765324/104 "2016-09-15T04:38:51Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#):
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> Okay, SO WHERE IN GIANT BLUE LETTERS is there a liberal or progressive who believes that someone spewing hateful speech should be jailed or fined by the government?

Some European hate speech laws do just this.

> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> One the conservatives got right: the Cold War.
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> I think a lot of liberals were too trusting of the Soviet Union. They were arguing for an equivalency that didn’t exist.

You’re thinking of leftists or socialist types. Liberals were Cold War hawks. They supported the Vietnam War and loathed the hippies and anti-war movement.

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