# Thinking Like a Conservative

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-like-a-conservative/711338>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 30, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-like-a-conservative/711338 "2015-01-30T16:37:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-like-a-conservative/711338/161 "2015-02-05T02:50:45Z")

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Note: It’s already illegal to “teach the controversy”. We don’t need to speculate.

And please don’t anyone tell me about some school district somewhere that still does this, or tries to do this. People speed on the highways all the time, but it’s still illegal to do so.

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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:** [February 5, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-like-a-conservative/711338/162 "2015-02-05T02:52:15Z")

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> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> Are there any actual people who you don’t hate? Because if you do, and if they live in America, there’s a good chance (although not a certainty) that they’re either “conservative” or “liberal”. If you reduce both sides to caricatures, the fault may lay with you.

I guess it’s just the extreme ones who act like caricatures who I can’t stand. Like I don’t hate Mitt Romney. And he probably is a smart guy. Management consulting firms like Bain tend to not hire dummies. But he does come across as aloof, pretentious and being a good corporate executive is not the same thing as being a good President. Sarah Palin OTOH just comes across as a dummy.

> [@elucidator](#):
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> Bongo-banging? They’re, like, beatnik caricatures from an old _Mad_ magazine?

Well yes. Plus the fact that they were banging actual bongos.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-like-a-conservative/711338/163 "2015-02-05T03:01:41Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Well yes. Plus the fact that they were banging actual bongos.

Maybe not actual bongos, but [close enough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er7ZLcXnT7Y). Still, today you need to have some Taiko in order to be really cool.

Maybe it’s my hippie heritage from back in the day, but I’m totally cool with that. Not in terms of affected social change, but groovin’ to some drum beats— right on!

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