These are pretty much the main reasons I can not become a conservative..

I'm absolutely open to conservative views!

Here's one I rather like: fiscal responsibility. Here's the problem, though: can you name the last Republican president to balance a budget? Hint: It wasn't Trump, either Bush, Reagan, Ford, or Nixon. Instead, the GOP has driven up spending, primarily on the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about.

Here's another one I like: keeping the federal government out of our personal lives. If you're lobbying for the federal government to tell people how to conduct their sexuality, you're in violation of this. The GOP has been bitterly cruel to the LGBT community. Also, the anti-abortion movement is not for personal freedom; it is for imposing your moral judgments on others.

In my estimation, conservatism went off the tracks in the 1980s as Reagan and others embraced the Religious Right. Increasingly, the conservative movement seems to be predicated on two very questionable premises: (1) Straight white Christian men are best suited to decide what's right for everyone in this country, and (2) unfettered capitalism always makes the world better.

But frankly, the biggest problem that I have with “modern” conservatism is its apparent immunity to scientific truths. If you think climate change is up for debate, you're scientifically illiterate. If you think evolutionary biology is up for debate, you're scientifically illiterate. And it's one thing to be ignorant, but if your ignorance shapes your policy, then I can't get on board your big dumb train.

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I'm so glad you brought LBJ up. He was the power monger that dreamed up the Gulf of Tonkin incident in which a non-existent American Destroyer was sunk (not) so as to be able to justify the VietNam war. He was also the shameless president that ordered the President of the Naval Inquiry Board regarding the USS Liberty that he WOULD find the cause of the attack to be mistaken identity in defiance of well over half the crew that went through the attack. His reasoning came clear with his statement that he "didn't give a damn if the ship was sunk, he was not going to embarrass an ally". I ask you, is that worse than carpet bombing a sovereign nation? Did it destroy an entire population of people or is that harmless liberal puffery? You can't see past the end of your nose, sherlock.

The temperature on Mars is rising? Oh, NO! Say it ain't so! That means global warming is infectious! Our sun is a variable star, and goes through these cycles.

I disagree emphatically. FDR was a pioneer in trampling on the Constitution & using the power of the office against opponents.

He ordered the seizure of all privately held gold in the country, ordering G-men to seal every safe deposit box in every bank in the country sealed, only to be opened in the presence of a G-man to seize any gold in such storage.

He unilaterally ordered the cost of gold to be raised from $20.00 per ounce to $35.00 per ounce, effectively devaluing by about 42%, the life savings of every bank account holder in the country.

He ordered millions of gallons of milk seized and poured down sewers to raise the price of milk for farmers; this when
millions were starving.

He ordered the application for FCC relicensure of a small Midwest Catholic radio station be denied because it had been critical of his policies.

Harry Truman committed American troops to Korea without requesting authorization from Congress while it was in session. This was the precedent for all future military action, bypassing Congress.

Nixon's trangressions were like stealing a candy bar next to those two.

So, what was that now about no one abusing The Constitution worse than Nixon until Obama?

Nixon was trying to get us out of the quagmire that Kennedy & Johnson had committed us to. What was worse? Try the incineration of thousands of Japanese at Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Try the auto-genocide of between 1.5 & 2.5 million Cambodians after the Democratic Congress refused to authorize any more funding for military action in southeast Asia forcing our abandonment of people who'd befriended and supported us.

Viet-Nam was the fourth war of the twentieth century that Democrats got us into.

It all gets so sticky when you start leveling accusations about wars, doesn't it?

And all you progressives and Democrats in this venue get a political erection over FDR.

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As long as queers keep it in the closet and don't flaunt their decadent behavior, I don't care. But don't harass my baker if he won't bake a cake for your repugnant lifestyle. That is his choice as much as your decision to bother him, knowing he won't acquiesce to your reprehensible request. It is called living with standards, something liberals absolutely hate. Liberals can live only with their own know best ideas and can't tolerate anything restrictive or traditional. It probably predates Moses coming down the mountain with the Ten Commandments only to find his flock had made a golden calf to worship since they couldn't stand any interference with their desires. Best to call it inherited liberal stupidity.

The only reason that conservative's fight the notion of global warming is because they are terrified that it's going to cost them money. What they don't understand is that changing climate is going to cost them more money then if they took the steps to address it when we had the chance. My father in law lost well over 100K the last drought because he had to dump his herd of long horns and now he's in the process of replacing them and he's having to have to pay a premium. But talk about a carbon tax and he goes off on how GW isn't real etc, etc, etc. We can only fuk with mother nature so much because in the end she doesn't care if we are here or not.

Pay attention to your father-in-law, Pete. Apparently, he is way smarter than you. Global warming will continue for another 100 years or more in the current solar cycle, and there is nothing you or anyone can do to stop it. I doubt that anyone has the ability to alter the sun's output. But don't get so fussed up about it. The earth was far warmer during the Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Warm Period, without the disastrous consequences that alarmist want you to fear. If you are really concerned, don't build near the ocean.