What Does it Mean to be a Conservative Democrat?

[TheKentuckian]

58. I think it largely is shorthand for agree with Reagan but not the southern strategy.

Moderate Democrat means "I generally agree with Reagan, though I may differ here and there but I'm not only not dog whistle racist but think gay folks are fine too".

Now liberal Democrat is being rebranded as "Reagan wasn't always right but overall he pretty good except the poorest of the poor could use a bit more help and everyone else can take a cut though his appeals to bigotry and doing nothing about aids was terrible. I might also think pot is okay".

I don't think gun control is really about conservative versus liberal though the more right wing party depends much more heavily on folks that are more likely to want or even need guns and the less conservative party depends much more heavily on folks that get much more of the downside and much less use other than home defense (which is balanced by much more plausible police response) so it has become a political totem.

It is also interesting that some of the most otherwise conservative folks in the party are some of the most fervent about gun control.
Hell, I think gun control is conservative. Anytime you limit the rights of the many, it is conservative. Speech control is conservative, voting control is conservative, controlling the bodies of others is conservative, controlling access to council is conservative.

I just think it is an overrated measuring stick, something Hawks and Corporatist can hang their hat on to feign being liberal while they figure out the next front while they plot to steal our Social Security whole they work to export jobs and reduce wages even if some support raising the minimum wage a little.