Everything in the government feels so doom and gloom now. Huge wealth inequality, automation taking jobs away possibly eighty percent of jobs away in the coming decades. I see young people embracing automation, which scares me. The economy has gone global and no politicians or economists seem to know what to do with it.
If it helps, this is the bit (ninetiestalgia aside), where you think you might be a bit conservative. The conservatives love the inequality and what the economy is doing right now. Deregulation (fuck the future), short term tax cuts (fuck the poor and the future), regressive policies (fuck science and humanity), denial of facts (fuck reality). If you think those things are bad, you suck at being a conservative. They think those things rock! You're possibly thinking back to the whitewashed halcyon days lost in history, where the toxic shit like McCarthyism doesn't have the same evil sanctimonious ring to it - due to the fog of time, not because it was OK, and the science denial wasn't as insane, because the evidence wasn't as robust and self evident.
It's that thing about good men questioning if they have a bad side, and bad men being utterly convinced that they're right...
A tiny bit of it comes down to that meme with the picture of the dogs being shipped out of New Orleans after Katrina on a bus: "Liberals treat dogs like people. Republicans treat people like dogs."
The minute you start victim blaming, you can call yourself a conservative. Pretty sure even communists get nostalgic.
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And please can your vision of the future not come true. Trump destroys the Republican party. The new battleground in a dystopian future is between the conservative democrats who want a progressive state and the anarchist libertarians who want everyone to fend for themselves and only the strong should survive. (And much like the world being divided into the righteous and unrighteous --- with the righteous doing the dividing, of course they are the strong in their eyes - mainly because they've survived through luck and support to date, but want to pretend it was their own genius.) You can be a conservative in that world.