I'm uncertain ( when it comes to the details ) what a fiscal conservative is. Obama brought up how government structures revenues as well as their spending. I think the traditional idea of a fiscal conservative is related mostly to restraint of spending versus who is left off the hook tax-wise.
Socially I lean to the left, mostly; but I do tire of the success of some low brow culture that appeals to the lowest common denominator and is "cheap to produce" and therefore plentiful.
I often wonder why there isn't more attention paid to the option of being centrist. You have the "We'll tell you what God wants you to do" people on the one hand, and the "If you can get away with it, then do it" people on the other. I hope some of the extremists on both ends get their asses kicked big time, sooner versus later.
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"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Reichsfuhrer Herman Goering at the Nuremburg trials.
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