Mueller report summary delivered to Congress

Going against my better judgement and responding seriously here.

The main job of conservative viewpoints is simple: resist unneeded change, hold the status quo. It's in the name. It serves the same purpose it's served in conservative politics for over 200 years now: Progressives constantly want to change, Conservatives constantly don't want change. The latter keeps the former in check. Look at leftist politics: constant infighting, constant bickering, constant purity testing, constant 'dream projects' with zero attainable goals. A 'pure progressive' mindset is a speeding bullet train riding off the rails, a 'pure conservative' mindset is a train never leaving the station. Both are bad, both counteract eachother. Specifically, conservatives have the thankless job of making Progressives actually pick their battles. The things actually worth fighting over, the things actually worth writing in depth legislation over, the things they can stop bickering at eachother over and actually get done when the time is right are the things that get changed. It forces change to be meaningful, cooperative, and most importantly, not arbitrary.

Other areas in terms of specific policy/initiatives?

  • Focus on Strong Family Values

Children raised by single parents are 3x as likely to live in poverty than someone in a two-parent. There is a noted breakdown in the family dynamic of the black community, and even lately in the white working class family community. They don't always get it right, but the focus on trying to strengthen the family dynamic is a strong, indirect way of increasing wealth and stability.

  • School Reform

Democrats were actively complicit in the absolutely corrupt and abysmally broken teachers unions that lead to horribly inept teachers sometimes blackout drunk in classrooms unable to be fired. Weakening these unions, upping standards of teachers, and allowing choice for charter and private schools with vouchers is a perfectly legitimate solutions to this problem.

  • Capital Gains Tax

This is my opinion, but the capital gains tax should be absolutely removed for anyone making under 7 figures per year. Republicans want to get rid of it in general, and Dems want to up it in general, so I go with the former. But capital gains (ie: money you make on the stock market) is America's #1 way to wealth. It's how a few ten thousand invested turns into hundreds if not millions over 30-40 years. The market is the capitalist version of sharing in the fruit of the means of production. Any old person can buy an Apple stock, or a microsoft, or a bank of america, or a Blizzard Entertainment, or whatever and if the company does better, so do they. Middle America, people living paycheck to paycheck, should not be taxed over 40% for trying to gain wealth for their future and children, and Democrats want to raise it even more!

  • Corporate Taxes

Agree or disagree, corporations make jobs. Corporate taxes more often than not hurt small businesses the most, and Republicans often do not want to just slash them willy nilly. Usually corporate and business tax cuts come in the form of credits, where they can for instance be absolved of taxes for selling in India if they don't hire H1B's out of India and hire Americans instead. It lets them offset the higher wages/expensive benefit packages of hiring American. These are good things. Put American jobs first.

  • Aggressively pursue patent infringement on foreign entities

Enough said.

  • Lower regulation of banking

Heavy banking regulation has done the opposite of what Dems intended. It has killed community banking. From 1985, we have went from 13,000 community banks nationwide to only 1,900. Yes unfortunately this will lead to big banks running a little rampant, but I believe we can fix that in other ways other than writing hundreds of thousands (literally!) of pages worth of regulations that make it impossible for small businesses to operate.

  • Privatized healthcare

This is a long one, but I'd recommend this small little exchange I read a while back that I think might serve to explain the non-socialized viewpoint. Definitely give it a consideration. It's not objectively better than universal healthcare, but it's certainly a viable alternative within the right wing frame of reference, and not "objectively wrong" in any way.

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