# What Issues Are You Most Conservative and Liberal On? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340 "2013-03-08T02:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/41 "2013-03-10T09:11:06Z")
I’m liberal on abortion but conservative on lobbyists. We need to conserve lobbyists by placing them in a safe place where no one can interact with them. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/42 "2013-03-10T17:37:59Z")
I’m very liberal on gay marriahe, abortion, and drugs. I believe in the death penalty. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/43 "2013-03-10T17:55:16Z")
I’m fairly conservative (and married to a cop) and yet… I have become increasingly disturbed over the past few years by the abuses of Constitutional rights, especially with respect to the War on Drugs, perpetrated by the Powers That Be - often the local police forces, also the FBI, DEA, etc. It seems to me that the WOD has done more violence to the Constitution than anything else in the past hundred years. Possibly as a consequence of this disturbance, I find myself taking a harder line on search and seizure, the exclusionary rule, probable cause, etc. Where in the past I would sneer at perps getting off “on a technicality”, I am increasingly feeling that officials have to dot every “t” and cross every “i”, and let 'em go if that is not done. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/44 "2013-03-11T03:50:30Z")
I think abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia (regulated), dueling, and gladiatorial games should be legal. And in some cases, subsidized. Quite a few recreational drugs should be legalized…and their sale put under government near-monopoly. The profits used for the space program. Like finally getting an asteroid detection system. (You call it “Narcocracy,” I call it “not ending up on the wrong side of an extinction event.”) ---
**Author:** ![drew870mitchell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drew870mitchell/32/3946_2.png) [@drew870mitchell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drew870mitchell)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/45 "2013-03-11T04:04:37Z")
I don’t see myself as on the extreme for many of these but I do believe that we would be better off with full drug decriminalization than with what we have now. Regulate the purity of substances so that people don’t kill themselves with janky heroin and then push them through addiction rehabilitation instead of prison. Do they deserve it? What’s the success rate? Will more people experiment to their own detriment? Who knows? I’m coming at it from the perspective that it’s hard to imagine the cost to society could be any worse than what we’re doing now: jamming the justice system with drug cases, filling prisons with nonviolent offenders, and ripping people away from their families. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/46 "2013-03-11T04:15:02Z")
I’m most conservative with regard to the law, most liberal with regard to sex (hetero kind only.) ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/47 "2013-03-12T06:00:15Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Most conservative: baseball > > Most liberal: football Genius! Liberal: Just about everything. I’m far to the left compared with most people. I think government is a tool that should be used to develop social programs such as access to food, shelter, education, healthcare, defense, a Justice system, etc… Some call it “socialism” and imply that it leads to “entitlement” problems. I call it a responsible society in which everyone recognizes that we are all in this together and it’s better to take care of one another than compete for goods and services. Conservative: Guns? Which I don’t even know if you would consider this conservative. It’s not like Liberals are trying to take them away, they’re just advocating regulation. Yeah, I’m pretty much all liberal. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/48 "2013-03-12T06:17:00Z")
**Doggo** , I don’t understand your POV, at least from an economical standpoint. You’re against programs that support a social safety net. “Work if able, or starve.” (which is pretty much the way it is anyway) But, then you want to raise taxes. (97% over a million) I appreciate the amount of content you put forward, but, what’s the point of raising those taxes? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/49 "2013-03-12T09:42:29Z")
Conservative: I favor a strong military, and an assertive foreign policy. I think private-sector employment lifts more people out of poverty than government handouts. I think private citizens should have the right to be heavily armed. If you don’t want Mrs. Grundy to get judgemental about your sex life, you should not ask her to pay higher taxes to feed your bastards and treat your clap. Liberal: Censorship at its best is more dangerous than pornography at its worst. Legalize all drugs and let natural selection take its course. If gays want to get married, that’s fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![Doggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Doggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doggo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/50 "2013-03-17T09:00:02Z")
> [@panaccione](#): > > **Doggo** , I don’t understand your POV, at least from an economical standpoint. You’re against programs that support a social safety net. “Work if able, or starve.” (which is pretty much the way it is anyway) But, then you want to raise taxes. (97% over a million) > > I appreciate the amount of content you put forward, but, what’s the point of raising those taxes? I’m pretty sure you misunderstood what I said. Those able to work, should. Those unable to work, or earn enough, should have access to the taxpayer provided funds ie safety net. In the UK, there are 3 generations in one houshold that have never worked- this is pure theft from the workers. I do allow that in the event of someone losing their job, or getting sick, temporary payments should be made, as used to be the case in the US, before the Dems raised it. In the event that there really is no work, and the person is really unable to move to where the work is, then work should be done for the community in exchange for long term welfare payments. Re raising taxes, does anyone NEED more than a million a year- I don’t even know anyone that earns that much, never came near in my whole life ( and still had a reasonably good life ). In a country with 16 trillion in debt, and huge numbers in poverty, is it fair to allow some excesive wealth? Seems that Kennedy’s appeal for asking what YOU can do for your country is falling on deaf ears now. ---
**Author:** ![Doggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Doggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doggo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/51 "2013-03-17T09:11:16Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Are you saying that until we eliminate all possible implements for committing murder, that we cannot lift a finger to control the most efficient instrument of death? Sure, you can kill me with a knife. But I like my chances against your knife as opposed to dodging your gunshots. > > If someone breaks into my home, I shall call the police. If they commit other crimes, I trust the law enforcement and legal system to deal with it. I don’t fantasize about turning into Dirty Harry when the sun goes down. If calling the police worked, I’d support your view, but it doesn’t. As for Dirty Harry, I decline to identify myself with him, but if the government considered it OK to train me to go kill young men that were only defending their country against the invader ( us ), I consider it OK to defend myself against bad people that wish to harm or kill me in my own country, and if they get dead in the process, well, that’s on them. Lets remember that when the pistol was invented, it was touted as “the equaliser”, as it made even the weakest man or woman the same chance of survival as a strong man had. I don’t suport guns because I want to kill people, I support them because I don’t want a bad person to kill/ injure me. BTW, as a pacifist, I doubt you’d last 1 minute against a criminal with a knife. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/52 "2013-03-17T09:29:11Z")
Most Conservative: Immigration. Kick every single illegal immigrant out. Let them apply from their home countries and wait to enter legally. Reform immigration to speed processing times. Most Liberal: Gay rights. Government has no business treating anyone differently based upon sexual orientation and no rational reason to use sexual orientation to discriminate in areas of marriage, taxation, inheritance, and more. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/53 "2013-03-17T15:01:59Z")
Freedom requires responsibility. Freedom from responsibility is life in prison. Personal freedom requires more & more personal responsibility depending on how much you want. The sanctity of life isn’t. If we want a society, Their must be a code of conduct. Laws, (code of conduct) has very little to do with justice. All laws are double edged. Must always remember that humans are human so evil will exist in & of itself, it can not be legislated or nurtured away. Labels are our way of trying to belong because we are herd beings. Politically, I am in no camp ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/54 "2013-03-17T15:55:45Z")
> [@Doggo](#): > > In the UK, there are 3 generations in one houshold that have never worked There probably are, but probably not very many. > **[Freedom of Information shows no evidence for thousands of 'never-worked'...](https://fullfact.org/economy/freedom-information-shows-no-evidence-thousands-never-worked-families/)** > > Earlier this year the Guardian ran an editorial attempting to debunk a 'convenient untruth' - the belief that there are potentially thousands of 'never-worked' families living on what have … ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/55 "2013-03-17T21:22:41Z")
I’m Liberal on most things. Equal rights, health care, and the environment, are currently my biggest concerns. I stray a little towards the middle on immigration. You could say, ‘I’m on the fence.’ 😃 Fiscally, I’m a little more Conservative. Although I do think the extremely wealthy, should pay the same % of taxes, as everyone else. And mega churches, should pay taxes. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/56 "2013-03-19T00:08:05Z")
I’m most conservative about guns. Only very slightly less conservative about abortion. Screamingly liberal about drugs and prostitution – I think almost all drugs should be legal and I really don’t understand why we can pay people to give us haircuts, pedicures, massages and bikini waxes but can’t pay to get an orgasm. ---
**Author:** ![Doggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Doggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doggo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/57 "2013-03-19T11:40:37Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > There probably are, but probably not very many. > [Freedom of Information shows no evidence for thousands of 'never-worked' families – Full Fact](http://fullfact.org/articles/are_there_thousands_of_never_worked_families-27515) Perhaps so, but even one household is too many. Thousands of economic migrants move from far away to work in the UK, while thousands of British subjects are unemployed and living in areas that don’t have work. If someone from the other side of the world can move there to work, why can’t the unemployed move a few miles to where the work is? ( I’ll tell you why- probably either they are unemployable because they are ignorant products of Britain’s broken education system, or they are just idle and would rather get the dole and not do anything, than get off their butts and go out to work every day. ) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/58 "2013-03-19T11:58:54Z")
> [@Doggo](#): > > Perhaps so, but even one household is too many. > Thousands of economic migrants move from far away to work in the UK, while thousands of British subjects are unemployed and living in areas that don’t have work. If someone from the other side of the world can move there to work, why can’t the unemployed move a few miles to where the work is? > ( I’ll tell you why- probably either they are unemployable because they are ignorant products of Britain’s broken education system, or they are just idle and would rather get the dole and not do anything, than get off their butts and go out to work every day. ) “get on your bike and look for work” That’s not so easy for someone whose savings have been depleted by unemployment, or anyone who has family commitments in the local area. But keep parroting the Daily Mail line I guess. The unimaginable luxury of getting £71 a week on Jobseekers Allowance. Also, there are very few British subjects. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/59 "2013-03-19T12:03:12Z")
Actually, why do you work, if a life on benefits is such a cozy deal? Lots of people are hurting hard in this shitey crashed economy. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-issues-are-you-most-conservative-and-liberal-on/652340/60 "2013-03-19T12:44:10Z")
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