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I am sorta new to DU, lately, and I can't help but notice the wide variety of subjects that all of you enjoy and are passionate about.... Books, movies, nature, music, cooking, science, photography ........
That got me to wondering, what do right wing conservatives talk about? If they're all like Donnie, they don't read books. They think education is only for "liberal elites." They consider Hollywood full of "liberal loons", so they probably don't watch movies. I can't picture Donnie sitting through a play or a concert. They don't seem to value nature much, or appreciate our beautiful planet. They dismiss scientific facts as "fake news". So, I got to wondering, what the heck do they talk about when they're together? The weather? The stock market? Anyone have any ideas???
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)A LOT
Hello from Dayton
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)Does Rob Portman own a restaurant in your town? I heard he does.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)It's a famous landmark 15 miles south of here. I rarely go there.
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)They love their guns AND their pot. Of course, drill baby, drill.
raccoon
(31,126 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)are as conservative as they come. There are pockets of liberals too, but given that oil and the 2nd Amend BS is so big, they are outnumbeted.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Live just south of you in Kettering! Lots of gun fetishers here.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)In Washington Township. My daughters used to go to St. Albert's
theaocp
(4,245 posts)Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)that their kids hear this stuff.
Also, they talk taxes, and they make Obama and Hillary jokes.
They talk about how they are being robbed to support the lazy people on welfare, who are all faking any need of course.
They talk sbout the grave robbers who want to steal their money after they die...death, estate taxes.
Football, hunting, what kind of guns they have, the best private schools, refugee terrorists....
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)boring shit.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Yeah, think about those poor guys and gals who are trying to defend the world from terrorists after the Repubs got us into these now out of control wars.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)neighborhood. They have no idea where our military recruits come from.
When we have a neighborhood event in my very, very blue area of Los Angeles, there is usually a table for the high school ROTC recruits. Little do the smug Republicans know.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)daughters. Bone spurs. No shows to the National Gaurd.
Makes me weep for the true Americans.
I have a cousin who married a Palestinian, former Marine. He is a proud Muslim and they have two children. He does well, in film industry now. His wife had a meltdown with the Repub side of the family after Charlottesville. She lives in fear for her children.
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)You have to be taught hate and bigotry. Really sad, isn't it?
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)crass materialists, who have no sensitivity to anyone but their families.
Of course, we are teaching ours too...good values. Hopefully, there are more of us than them.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)I have no idea what a "deep state" really is, but the term comes up a lot.
They talk about Jesus and abortion and government regulation (although they really don't know how much their health and well being depends on government regulation).
That's my impression.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)It sounds like the dark web. Turns out, they mean "intelligence," I think.
What an irony. These "intelligent" people handicapped
our security.
It's sort of like voter fraud.
They just make stuff up and their paranoid, uninformed lemmings jump off the cliff.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)Eisenhower era, other legislation that set up all these secret agencies.
And now the rank and file criticizes it and complains about it.
Very odd.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)airplaneman
(1,240 posts)malaise
(269,187 posts)ReTHUGs talk about looting government and enriching themselves.
They talk about devising methods to destroy the social good and deprive others of healthcare, social security and other important societal benefits.
To be kind they are all Con men and women.
hurl
(938 posts)They go on about what Rush and others are saying, complain of liberal media bias, how corrupt Democrats are, and lots of whining about how they are victims.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)easttexaslefty
(1,554 posts)Oh, and money
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)especially when it comes to Federal Income Tax. Most of them don't understand concepts like marginal rates or taxable income vs. gross income. If they're in the 28% bracket, they believe they're paying 28% income tax on every dollar of income.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)In their daily lives, they have the same range of interests you see here, but tend more to trucks and guns and less to nature. Politically and intellectually, they are more likely to follow their own intuitions or propaganda sources, rather than to think about things based on evidence or experts. They are more likely to believe that they are smarter than they really are, but this doesn't apply to all of them.
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)but they tend to see the world in "black and white", and I mean extremes. It's all one way or the other - no gray areas.
For example, the only reason anyone would need Medicaid is because they're a lazy mooch, period.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)America and Israel are always good and Iran is always bad. Anybody who doesn't agree is anti-American or an anti-semite.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)It doesn't happen but that doesn't keep them from talking about it.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)Skittles
(153,199 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)how much money they have, all the status goods they buy with that money and why that makes them better than everyone else around them
They don't own a car, they own a BMW, and do not hesitate to remind you of that
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)They'll complain and complain and complain.
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)... they got "their guy" in the Oval Office, and control of Congress, too!
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)They talk about guns (with an almost sensual demeanor).
How minorities are ruining America (in slur specific terminology).
How Democrats should just "get over it" and let Trump make America great again.
The evils of gay people.
Whatever conspiracy fox is currently peddling.
Trying to have an intelligent conversation is difficult. And many of these people are intelligent. I usually just ask about their family, talk about the weather, why the Cowboy are losing, etc.
Read any good books lately usually elicits a blank stare.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)have died off. The rest have morphed into neocons, who, as you said, may be intelligent, but not as much as they think they are.
Isolated, Fox News.
Different Drummer
(7,650 posts)get together to talk, they end up marveling at how Fox News seems to always be right about everything they say.
rainin
(3,011 posts)by Peter Sweitzer. She's talking about that and basically whatever the outrage is on Fox that day. Fox tells her what to think and her friends all watch the same shows so they have lots to talk about.
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)killed the Fairness Doctrine, eh?
rainin
(3,011 posts)Liars win the propaganda war because it's easier to sell a story when you can make it up.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)so much shit about Fox, that she keeps the TV set to the Animal Planet, at least while we are around.
She talks about lions a lot now.
old guy
(3,283 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)BTW, welcome to DU. I moved to SW Ohio about four years ago. Quite the awakening.
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)I laugh when I hear pundits say that Ohio is a purple state -- I think we're about as red as can be.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)from going bright red. With most of the union population decimated, it has gotten much more red.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)It isn't red state/blue state it's urban/rural. New York is only a deep blue state because of the New York City metro area. Otherwise it would look more like Ohio.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Maryland in the western part of the state is a noted Klan area, and the eastern shore elected Harris who is a teabagger.
underpants
(182,904 posts)As I've heard natives of those areas call it.
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)eom
Kingofalldems
(38,487 posts)irisblue
(33,034 posts)mitch96
(13,926 posts)I mean LONG time friends.. One since I was 5 and the other since I was 16. Both are rabid Fox noise viewers. Both are gun nuts but one is a AR-15 guy and the other shoots trap and skeet with occasional hunting thrown in. One is wealthy and one is lower middle class. Ironically we don't talk politics much b/c it causes problems and we still want to be friends... As most have stated taxes and immigration is big on their list and as some have pointed out what ever fox is pushing that day is high on their list... I think it's funny about the immigration thing as all of us friends are second generation born from immigrant parents... We mostly talk cars,motorcycles,planes,building stuff, radio etc. No politics, religion or sports as that tends to be divisive... It works for us... Although I must admit sometimes my conservative friends have to make a comment every once and a while. My wealthy friend made a comment about how much money we were all gonna get back and I had to call him on it... Then it quiets down... He had his "let them eat cake" moment..
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Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)to stick to neutral subjects, like you say. Sports, hobbies, etc.
I know someone who often complains that he will be working till he dies "because the "takers" need my tax money to pay for all their "free stuff". I never know how to reply to that. Maybe say that the corporations are much bigger takers of free stuff than poor folks? But then I don't want to encourage a discussion.
Other family members, when we get together always talk about what they just bought or where they just went on vacation or what restaurant they ate at. Boring stuff like that.
mitch96
(13,926 posts)I think sports elicits A LOT of arguing... Sometimes I think these self proclaimed "sports guys" just like to argue and not talk sports.
I like to go to a local sports bar for the chicken wings. Sometimes these guys get so hot into arguing that the bartender has to send them outside!!! ?? time out ??
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Alice11111
(5,730 posts)attend the best, of course, as proven by how much they pay. Then, there are sighs about sacrifices.
KT2000
(20,588 posts)what they heard on FOX, Brietbart, etc. The meme is about hate, anger and resentment so they exchange hate, anger and resentment with each other. It is an adrenaline fix that they are addicted to.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)KT2000
(20,588 posts)One guy told me the pastor is trying to get people to stop such talk during bible study! Bet it's not working.
raccoon
(31,126 posts)I have given up on Baptist and Methodist churches in my area because of too much right wing conservative Republican talk. Some here on DU seem to be surprised that Methodist talk about that but they sure as hell do in my area.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)on a Methodist Church, when I attended a funeral in Austin, Texas. We have had the same here, but I'm in a blue state and deep blue country.
I'm still a Methodist at heart, but not by attendance.
My bro is practically evangelical, and he and his family recently joined a Methodist Church in West Texas, but it may have to do with it being the center of his high end neighborhood and friends. I was surprised.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)nt
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)that opposes them. Many are racists and hate anyone that is not white. They talk about their own needs and wants but don't care about anyone elses. Many are just plain evil.
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)It's primarily the market, weather, and taxes. Occasionally I could count on their racist pulling of a bank alarm, "can't stand her smile" remarks sprinkled with their assessment of the last avengers movie they took their kids/grandkids to.
kairos12
(12,875 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Stupid that the world media is covering, I flip over to see if Fox is covering it. There is Tucker or Hannity carrying on about the emails, the new FBI investigation about Hillary, and now Obama, and absolutely no coverage of what the world thinks about Dotard.
How will we ever convince them to change when they don't have a clue what is really going on?
Most of us don't stir up issues when we see them for the holidays.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)samnsara
(17,640 posts)...how the teachers are 'not doing their job and teaching all that 'libril' stuff ( like math and science)....the cost of hay....the cost of corn....the cost of beer ( and how its Obummers fault the cost rose a nickle)....the cost of bull sperm...the new family who drives 'one of them hy-breeds'...wondering when Hillary will be arrested...how they wouldn't mind giving that new Sunday school teacher 'a little squeeze'...Bless her heart!
Motley13
(3,867 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)It's a good question.
I'll tell you what I think they discuss:
* How Trump is just like the second coming of Jesus.
* How wonderful a president Trump is, the best ever.
* How Hillary should get 100 years in the electric chair.
* How LGBTQ/Mexicans/Muslims/coloreds should be banned from the USA.
* How the Democrat Party (the way they term it) should be outlawed.
* How science is bad, bad, bad, bad, BAD!
In short, they are delusional. And ignorant!
Runningdawg
(4,522 posts)Personhood legislation - they want to force women to carry to term and jail them for negligent homicide if they miscarry. Unless of course you are on public assistance of any kind, then they want to sterilize you.
The coming wrath of God, purge of the gene pool and "returning" America to a Christian Nation aka Theocracy.
Schools <gasp> science classes...liberal indoctrination!
Disparaging people who work minimum wage jobs. It's not a REAL job unless you make over 250K a year or own the business.
Of course the top 3 are still guns, racist jokes and HS football.
Rounding out the top 10 - the price of oil, cattle and a hunting lease.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)and if I confront them, they swear they aren't racist and I am a leftist without a sense of humor.
They all disgust me.
I got in my mother's face and called her a Goddamn Racist at Thanksgiving. I've never, well, rarely, disrespected her before. It just came out. I started screaming it. She is very old, ill. It is time for me to quit going to family events. There is too much hostility, from both sides.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Comfort. The world will leave them behind, I hope.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)are teaching their children. We have to reeducate them.
There is hope. I was raised in a racist town, and the schools were integrated when I was in Jr High. I and many of my friends are liberal, even socialist, so there is hope to wipe out the bigoted, immoral, thieves.
CanonRay
(14,119 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)About people they know. Things they buy and where to get them.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)airplaneman
(1,240 posts)Its a conservative site dedicated to putting down Democratic Underground.
I did not believe it until I checked it out myself.
https://conservativecave.com/cave/index.php?board=10.0
-Airplane
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Throwing of shade on anything not perfectly like them. Black and white "for us or against us" thinking. Hypocrisy abounds.
Welcome to DU, Ohiogal! .............
Prior to retiring, I worked many a service job in your state and got my fill of Repugs there.
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)Sorry about our state's repugs. They're like horse poo .... That is, to say, they're everywhere!
doodsaq
(120 posts)Not much else. I have one in my family and I just tune out.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)when my group of friends gather - all of us lefty to the core - military history is one of our main discussion topics. Ive never considered it a terribly conservative interest.
HAB911
(8,916 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Just from a different perspective.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Their kids. Favorite sports teams. Movies and what they just binge-watched on Netflix. Pets. Video games.
They probably dont talk about books and art a lot, not because theyre conservative but rather because almost NOBODY talks about books and art much anymore. Im a reader, but many of my friends and family are not, irrespective of political leanings.
Without doubt they occasionally bring up politics and the outrage of the day, but mostly people weary of talking politics with friends and family.
They arent aliens theyre just wrong about everything.
librechik
(30,676 posts)then they compare the sizes of their guns. Then talk about how they are better than everyone else.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Nazi/Hitler collectibles
Flipping houses with the skill of a 9 year old
"My rich uncles fabulous property he was so smart etc"
Tales of how great and rich he'll be (while living off Mommy and Daddy, who fund his failing 'business')
Buying what he thinks look like "fancy/rich" (gaudy/shite) antiques at auction. Hoarding said treasures as no one will buy the shit.
Tales of how clever he is
It actually is hilarious.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)The three G's.
After almost 30 years in a Red State I have these guys down pat...
Sometimes they talk about fishing too...
But mostly it's God and Guns and Gay issues.