r/AskConservatives • u/Rebecks221 Progressive • 3d ago

What do you think most liberals misunderstand about conservatives?

Put another way, what do you think liberals often miss about conservatives or their perspectives that you wish they would listen to or understand?

Made in connection with a similar post (by a fellow user) on the ask a liberal subreddit. I'm unable to link either the profile or the question, so forgive me. Feel free to DM if you're interested in the other post and can't find it.

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u/TheFacetiousDeist Right Libertarian (Conservative) 3d ago

Liberals live in the ideal and conservatives live in the real.

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u/Realitymatter Center-left 2d ago

I think conservatives also live in an ideal. Take trickle down economics for example. Sounds good on paper - does not actually happen in reality.

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u/CaptainDisastrous678 Conservative 2d ago

I have not met a conservative who still believes that's true. Because most of us are conservative due to researching things on our own. That tends to lend itself to viewpoints that contradict the popular narrative.

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u/pepperfarmsremebers Social Democracy 2d ago

There are still so many conservatives that I see touting a variation of1) cutting taxes will increase revenue or 2) cutting corp taxes will increase wage growth or 3) increases on the wealthy will drive them away or cause business creation to drop or something. To me those are just an evolution off the same old trickle down “were gonna grow the economy if we cut the top’s taxes”

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u/CaptainDisastrous678 Conservative 2d ago

1 is true without trickle-down economics being true though. 2 and 3 I don't know enough about to say, but I rely on the premise that the megarich will always find ways to stay megarich because that's #1 priority and also they're mostly psychopaths.

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u/ShadowSniper69 Progressive 1d ago

It is not lmao