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When a politician abruptly becomes conscious about government spending and the national debt, often occuring after their political party becomes the minority, and thus has less government influence to pass legislation.
Several Republican members of the House of Representatives became born-again fiscal conservatives when Barack Obama became President, after years of wasterful spending.
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A conservative who backs the enactment of invasive, usually expensive laws which allow for the government to regulate or micromanage the behavior, relationships or identity of private citizens, or to prohibit government recognition of certain of these traits, based upon the need to "preserve" said individual's idealized "natural" or "godly" order for society (or to create social programs - usually of the "feel good" type - pursuant to such ideals of a "Moral Majority").
Usually a conservative who uses a religious case or justification for why the government must pass legislation (or engage in international conflicts, such as the "War on Drugs") in order to play "moral police" with the citizenry or world.
Such conservatives' self-described credentials as "conservative" are often questioned or sometimes rejected by fiscal conservatives and right-libertarians (including the Grover Norquist anti-tax types) because of such programs take up fiscal resources for potentially never-ending or unwinnable wars. Of course, when culture wars are being fought both in the US and abroad by non-government entities (such as churches), the fiscal conservatives and libertarians are often quiet and compliant for as long as *government* money is not being directed to such wars; the richer of the BGSCs (e.g., Pat Robertson) have free license to carry out such wars.
"The social conservative leaders who advocate using government to achieve their aims always push the GOP to embrace big government whenever the GOP takes power. Here's how it works:
1. Republicans gain control based on promises of limited government.
2. We get a few years of somewhat limited government, especially if the president is a Democrat.
3. We then watch the biggest statists in America -- big government social conservatives -- demand that the federal government "do something" about every perceived social ill in America.
4. We then watch the GOP respond to social con threats by becoming 100% statist. Every time the GOP gains ascendancy, it eventually decides it ought to use the power of the federal government to force "conservative" (in quotes because big government is never conservative) goals. It assumes that other conservatives will just toe the line (like the OP suggests).
5. Voters then kick the GOP out of power.
6. We then watch the GOP at least pretend to believe in small government (many in the coalition will simply wish to limit power of Dems, thus forming an accidental coalition).
7. Repeat"
-- Rich Muny, BigGovernment.com (Breitbart-owned outlet)
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This observed scientific fact that disproves the idea of a creator, for the sum of matter and energy in the universe often change form to one another but get neither CREATED nor destroyed... give it up, religious fundamentalists.
God possibly represents the energy before the universe that exploded into the universe, but most certainly gets disproved as a separate person or entity, by the law of conservation of mass-energy.
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Any attempt to simplify one part of an equation causes the rest of the equation to expand such that ugliness is conserved.
The law is of course not literally true, or simplification would be impossible. It is merely an expression of frustration in those cases where simplification proves difficult when dealing with large or complex equations.
The law is named for professor Schultz (physics) of the College of DuPage.
Schultz's Law of Conservation of Ugliness strikes again!
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Analogous to the Law of Conservation of Energy, Conservation of Racism states that the total racism of an isolated system remains constant; it is said to be constant over time. This law means that racism can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another.
Student 1: paraphrase of Ibram Kendi, "Racism didn't go way after civil-rights act was passed. It just became more complex."
Student 2: That's the belief of the Law of Conservation of Racism.
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A handful of free-range nutjobs like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh
Donald Trump bases his policies on the grand traditions of conservative intellectual opinion.
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A person who wants to appear progressive, but is actually a fascist.
“I’m socially liberal, but fiscally conservative. I care about people but not enough to see them cared for on a systemic level.”
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