Remember me? I’m the guy with “Christian” and “Patriot” on my Twitter profile. My avatar is a picture of me wearing sunglasses and a baseball hat in the front seat of my car. I also have a #girldad on my profile, but that only applies to two weekends a month. I’m a critical thinker. I’m a complex guy. I’m not one of those blind partisan voters.
I am uncomfortable with how Republicans say Democrats are too focused on identity politics, woke ideology, socialism, CRT, and DEI. Not that Democrats are, just that Republicans say they are, so it must be true.
I’m socially liberal and fiscally conservative, which is no way a meaningless label I use to mask my bigotry and disdain for any voice different than mine.
Yeah, I think gay people should be allowed to get married, because I’m socially liberal. I also don’t support federal spending on health care, education, environmental protection, or raising the minimum wage for the first time since 2009. I mean, $7.25 is plenty. I’m fiscally conservative and socially liberal, in that I act liberal in social settings.
If a woman wants to get an abortion, she should be able to. In the first trimester, with her husband’s approval. Again, socially liberal.
Of course, I’m worried about all the keywords and phrases, so you know I know what I’m talking about. Debt-to-GDP ratio. Debt ceiling. Handouts. Tax and spend. Deficit spending. Fiscal house. Bootstraps. Belt tightening. Kitchen table. Checkbook.
Government should be run like a business. Making profits for its shareholders, the taxpayer. Because that makes logical sense and is in no way racially coded language to justify punitive budgeting targeted at benefits for marginalized communities.
I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 but not in 2012, because I’m socially liberal and fiscally conservative. And don’t let the fact that Obama in 2008 is the only time I’ve ever voted for a Democrat make you think I’m not liberal. I’m socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
I support the party of fiscal responsibility. And historically, that’s the Republican Party. Keep in mind, one of eleven recessions has occurred under a Democratic administration. I prefer business leaders like Donald Trump. He only added about $8 trillion to the national debt in his first term and has just passed a $4.5 trillion bill so far in his second.
Speaking of which, I like that Big Beautiful Bill because it cuts $1.4 trillion from health care, education, and food assistance. Belt tightening, haircut, third budgeting buzzword. I’m still socially liberal even though the bill kicks twelve million off their health insurance and twenty-two million families will lose SNAP benefits.
Cannabis should be legal for white guys. Crypto is a real thing and not a scam. We don’t need government regulation of it.
I just don’t like handouts like Medicaid. We shouldn’t reward poor people for choosing to be poor. We should salute innovators like Elon Musk who don’t rely on the government hammock—just $38 billion in government contracts and subsidies. Look at the ROI with Elon Musk. And how much he does for the auto industry. Specifically, how he’s driving business to his competitors because everyone hates Tesla now.
And speaking of immigrants, I’m socially liberal because I don’t want immigrants taking jobs from Americans, whom I refuse to support with income, health care, or education assistance. Legalizing undocumented immigrants would generate $1.5 trillion for the economy. But I’m a fiscal conservative. So it makes sense to spend $1 trillion to deport people paying $97 billion in federal and state taxes annually.
Look, I’m socially liberal because, like you, I believe in equality and freedom. But I’m fiscally conservative because I want equality and freedom for people like me. And only me.
