(What is the ideology of the Conservative Party?)
Just checking back in from Texas, to re-pledge the support for a Harrison elect.
Just checking back in from Texas, to re-pledge the support for a Harrison elect.
(( Nah, conservatism was in many ways laissez faire domestically. Not that this will solve your quandry specifically, but Conservatives of the past were primarily distinguished from today by being protectionists - Peelite free trade Conservatives were a major change in the British political scene and that didn't really take hold permanently until Maggie Thatcher. Classic conservatism, Toryism basically, is just like Alexander Hamilton's original Federalists (they were modeled after the Tories I'm sure, just didn't want to say so as they were associated with Loyalism): Regressive taxation (higher taxes for the poor than the rich), subsidies for "job creators", lack of regulation of employers, strong anti-union regulation, and protectionism in terms of trade. Basically they were friends to bankers and industrialists.
The States Conservatives seem like Bourbon Democrats - socially conservative and free trade; basically conservative farmers, farmers like free trade. Country conservatives rather than Big Timey conservatives, but that fits the States Conservative concept to a tee.
As for regressive taxation versus flat tax, subsidies for major industries versus merely lack of industrial regulation - that is the kind of stuff that can and should vary from party member to party member, candidate to candidate. ))
A true conservative, like myself, sees the real conservative candidate here, Joe Hayden, and his economic policy of interventionism.
((@BBB Since the Federals and Democrats havn't merged, you can consider that past "Yes" still available, if you still want it.))