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[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

fiscal responsibility

Thats the important part

Who would you say is more fiscally conservative, a person who wisely invests their money in the future, or a person who wastes it all on bricks to throw at their neighbours windows.

The latter is what current "Conservative" parties are.

Fiscal Conservativism is about wisely investing your money and avoiding wasting it on stupid shit.

Conservative parties rely on "lalala I cant hear you" tactics. Theyre the sort of person who gets a small weird lump and ignores it and then 15 years later die to cancer they could've gotten treated a decade ago.

Thats not fiscally conservative, thats just being fucking stupid. Sometimes you do need to spend money on basic human needs because it net benefits everyone, even on pure paper number balancing.

Im conservative in the "hey we can save a lot of money if we do x/y/z" sort of way, like a person who clips out a bunch of coupons and ends up getting 90% off on their groceries.

Thats also being conservative, you are conserving your resources wisely by allocating them in ways that pay back well.

And turns out... those ways coincidentally are pro human rights.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

No, it's not the important part. Everyone believes in financial responsibility. Literally every coherent ideology. The only people who don't are those who are outright stealing from the public purse, kleptocrats and the like. The important part is how financial conservatives go about their ideas of financial responsibility.