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    Not to be confused with Conlib.png Conservative Liberalism or Libcon.png Libertarian Conservatism.

    Liberal Conservatism, often shortened to LibCon is an economically centre-right to right, culturally moderate but generally right-leaning and usually centre to authoritarian-leaning on the lib-auth axis, ideology. Liberal conservatism incorporates the Clib.png Classical Liberal view of minimal government intervention in the economy, according to which individuals should be free to participate in the market and generate wealth without government interference. However, unlike most liberals, liberal conservatism emphasizes trying to conserve this worldview and views any attempts to challenge it as an existential threat. They are also unafraid to be called conservative, even if they're often more socially liberal on certain issues.

    History

    Historically, conservatism in the 18th and 19th centuries comprised a set of principles based on concern for established tradition, respect for authority, and religious values. This form of traditionalist or classical conservatism is often considered to be exemplified by the writings of Joseph de Maistre in the post-Enlightenment age. Contemporaneous liberalism, now recalled as classical liberalism, advocated both political freedom for individuals and a free market in the economic sphere. Ideas of this sort were promulgated by John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, who are respectively remembered as the fathers of liberalism, including economic liberalism, the separation of church and state, social liberalism and utilitarianism.

    According to scholar Andrew Vincent, the maxim of liberal conservatism is "economics is prior to politics". Others emphasize the openness of historical change and suspicion of tyrannical majorities behind the hailing of individual liberties and traditional virtues by authors such as Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville as the basis of current liberal conservatism which can be seen both in the works of Raymond Aron and Michael Oakeshott. However, there is general agreement that the original liberal conservatives were those who combined conservative social attitudes with an economically liberal outlook, adapting a previous aristocratic understanding of natural inequalities between men to the rule of meritocracy, without directly criticizing privileges of birth as long as individual liberties were guaranteed. Over time, the majority of conservatives in the Western world came to adopt free-market economic ideas as the Industrial Revolution progressed and the aristocracy lost its power, to the extent that such ideas are now generally considered as part of conservatism. Nonetheless, the term liberal is used in most countries to describe those with free-market economic views. This is the case in continental Europe, Australia, and Latin America.

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    Cball-EU.png Europe

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    Cball-UK.png United Kingdom

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    Variants

    EurosolidarityUA.png Poroshenkoism

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    Berlusconi.png Berlusconism

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    KernesGepa.png Kernesism

    KernesGepa.png Kernesism is the ideology of Gennadiy Kernes who was a mayor of Kharkiv from 2010 to 2020. It is Klep.png corruptionary doctrine and CronyCap.png cronyistic, like many other Partyofregions.png Party of Regions members. The party of Kernes was KernesBloc.png "Block of Kernes — Succesfull Kharkiv". Kharkivians think that he was a good mayor and is respected even after his death in December 2020 due to COVID complications. Howerer outside of Eastern Ukraine, he remains a controversial figure as he supported pro-Russian unrests following the Euromaidan.

    Romney.png Romneyism

    Romneyism is based on the political beliefs of Cball-Utah.png Utah Senator and 2012 RepubUS.png Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. Romney describes himself as being a Modcon.png Moderate Republican. His first major position in politics was serving as Governor of Cball-Massachusetts.png Massachusetts, where he cut spending, increased fees, and closed corporate tax loopholes in order to bring about surpluses. Romney also signed into law the Massachusetts health care reform or "Romneycare" which aimed at providing health insurance to all Massachusetts residents and would ironically serve as a model for "Obamacare".

    On social issues, he is quite conservative. Although he was Pro-Choice1.png pro-choice as governor, he later became Antiabort.png pro-life in 2005 as he became Trad.png culturally right, opposing abortion in all cases except for rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother. In addition to being pro-life, Romney also opposes Antiporn.png pornography and Gay.png LGBT+ rights, although, by 2022, he began to moderate his stance on the LGBT+ community, voting in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, which requires all states and territories to recognize the validity of same-sex marriages and civil unions while also protecting Religious.png religious freedom.

    In 2012 Romney won the Republican nomination for President and faced incumbent President Obamium.png Barack Obama. Obama criticized Romney for calling Cball-Russia.png Russia the number one geopolitical foe to The United States and for his proposed Medicare reforms. Obama ended up defeating Romney and served another term as President.

    During the 2016 Presidential Election, Romney criticized Trumpism.png Donald Trump calling him a phony and a fraud. In response, Trump called Romney a "choke artist". In 2018 Romney was elected to the Senate representing Cball-Utah.png Utah, he became the most prominent Antitrump.png Anti-Trump Republican in the Senate voting to convict him in both his impeachment trials. Romney also marched alongside Blm.png Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 and voted to confirm Libfem.png Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in 2022.

    Cball-US.png Blue Dog Democratism Dem-BlueDog.png

    Blue Dog Democrats are Moder.png Moderate members of Demcr.png The Democratic Party who caucus in The Blue Dog Coalition in the US House of Representatives. The Blue Dog Coalition was founded by a group of conservative Democrats in 1995 in response to the defeats in the 1994 midterm elections. Many of the founding members of the Blue Dog Coalition were Southern conservatives who were still members of the Democratic Party. The caucus advocated for Fiscon.png Fiscal Conservatism, while being mostly moderate on social issues. They also advocated for bipartisan consensus with RepubUS.png Republicans and acted as a check on legislation that was considered too far left or right. Today the Blue Dog Coalition retains it's fiscal conservative views but is more aligned with the rest of The Democratic Party on social issues. The caucus is also a lot more diverse not only in terms of ethnicity but also in terms of what states it's members represent. Blue Dogs have changed from a coalition of "southern white men" to "a multi-regional, multicultural group". One notable former member of the Blue Dog Coalition would be Senator Sinema.png Kyrsten Sinema of Cball-Arizona.png Arizona.

    Personality

    LibCon's personality is that of a nerdy politician that is fiercely scared to lose voters (aka kinda boring, but not too boring). He tries to compromise with both liberals and conservatives by adopting some of their policies. They don't always backfire, however, both of these groups still hate him. Basically the combined personalities of Cball-US.png George H.W. Bush, John McCain, John Kasich, Cball-UK.png David Cameron, Cball-Germany.png Angela Merkel, Cball-Netherlands.png Mark Rutte and of course, God Emperor Mitt Romney. He may also act like Hank Hill from King of the Hill.

    LibCon also really likes reading and money.

    Others define him as "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" but the term "liberal" has been erroneously associated with the left nowadays (especially in the US), so he tries to associate himself with Clib.png Classical Liberalism.

    How to Draw

    Flag of Liberal Conservatism
    1. Draw a ball with Eyes
    2. Draw a Blue (top) and Red (bottom) bicolour
    3. Draw a white ball in the middle of the bicolour
    4. Draw four red lines on the white ball coming from the bottom left

    And You're Done!

    Color Name HEX RGB
    Mostly Red #DE0100 222, 1, 0
    Strong Blue #1404BD 20, 4, 189
    White #FFFFFF 255, 255, 255


    Relationships

    Voter Base

    • Civnat.png Civic Nationalism - My nationalist counterpart. As long as they come here legally. Time to make that as difficult as possible.
    • Necon.png Neoconservatism - Besides that schism we caused in the Republican Party in the 2000s, we're alright. (Don't make me cut the military budget though).
    • Clib.png Classical Liberalism - My last friend left that hasn't changed a bit. Love you, gramps!
    • Neoliberal-icon.png Neoliberalism - Though I don't like how woke you can be these days, I've still learned a lot from your economics. Reagan and Thatcher are my heroes!
    • Rockrep.png Rockefeller Republicanism - RINO before it became mainstream. Thanks for the inspiration!
    • Fiscon.png Fiscal Conservatism - Slashing Budgets? Lowering Deficits? Pinch me, I must be dreaming!
    • Cdem.png Christian Democracy - In some countries we're almost the same thing.
    • Synclib.png Syncretic Liberalism - Some reasonable advocates of you in America seem to like me quite a lot, and you're very agreeable too.
    • Progconf.png Progressive Conservatism - You're pretty similar to me, but at the same time you're not... Eh, never mind. Thanks for the votes!
    • Onenatcon.png One-Nation Conservatism - My slightly more economically lefty UK counterpart. Disraeli was a hero!
    • 3way.png Third Way Third Way - alt.png - Thanks for welcoming me to your faction after most of us left when Trump started running. Sometimes based economics, Hilary was ok back in the day and we both aren't really that different. However, Obama's Environmental regulations and Obamacare were a weak decision.
    • Neobert.png Neo-Libertarianism - More close to me than the rest of the liberts. Really a great match for me.
    • Globeball.png Globalism - Free trade is what makes the world prosperous!
    • Moder.png Moderatism - The GOP shall be closed for radicals and extremists and The Tories are free from them! (Please vote for me.)
    • Theodemocracy.png Theodemocracy - Thank you very much for voting for me!
    • Orlib.png Ordo-Liberalism - You're pretty cool.

    Compromise?

    • Nalib.png National Liberalism - Fellow Right-Liberal, but he's way too nationalistic and somewhat racist for my tastes. But at least he's not like Reactlib.png that fool. I'm sorry you got ruined by them.
    • Lib.png Liberalism - Well I'm a liberal so I can at least expect you to be voting on my side- WAIT, WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR Soclib.png SOCLIB?!
    • Conservative.png Conservatism - We're both conservatives so I expect you to be voting for me- OH COME ON, WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR Natcon.png NATCON?!
    • Conlib.png Conservative Liberalism - No, sorry pal, we're not the same. You're just the above but even more against big govermnent, hopefully your more right of center followers will get more power. PragerU is annoying sometimes.
    • Dengf.png Dengism - I like to say that I hate you because of your authoritarianism but surprisingly many of my followers (Bush I, Merkel, Piñera, etc.) defend you for some reason.
    • Patcon.png Paternalistic Conservatism - Neutered socialist, but tolerable. I guess I'll incorporate some of their policies so I can get some votes.
    • Hcon.png LGBT Conservatism - Gay rights are needed for a functioning and successful society! Drop the "T" and we're fine, also depending on what's politically expedient I may say something about gay adoption, please vote for me anyway.
    • Tradcon.png Classical Conservatism - Waaaaay too traditionalist for my tastes.
    • Natcon.png National Conservatism - Not a fan of his fanatical conservatism and nationalism, but we have to work together. I'll also incorporate some of their policies so that mainstream conservatives will like them more and thus get some more votes woohoo.
    • Erdoğanism.png Erdoğanism - You used to be so cool in the 2000s. What happened to you?!
    • Altl.png Alt-Lite - You'd better grow out of this edgy phase before it's too late!
    • BoJo.png Borisism - Some of your views align with mine and I still like you over UKUKIP.png him, but your authoritarianism and euroscepticism rub me the wrong way...
    • Radcent.png Radical Centrism - Some pragmatism and compromise would be nice but something seems off with you...
    • Consocf.png Conservative Socialism - A lot of you are culturally moderate but socialism and defending regimes in The Third World make me feel iffy about your talents...
    • Libcon.png Libertarian Conservatism - We're almost a match but he complains that I'm too statist, anti-cannabis and compromise with Necon.png Neoconservatism. Still, I like him and he's been a good middle during SleepyJoe.png The Neutered Communist Grandpa and Trumpism.png Far-Right Orange Maniac. Barry Goldwater is better than Ron Paul, still.
    • Trad.png Traditionalism - Nature is non-stop changes! Be wiser like you always say, not every aspect of innovationism is automatically a failture.

    Opponents

    • Reactlib.png Reactionary Liberalism - Get help, seriously. I don't know what's so liberal about you in the first place.
    • Progress.png Progressivism - I wouldn't mind you if you weren't so collectivist, woke and symathetic to socialists.
    • Statlib.png State Liberalism - THIS IS THE FUTURE THAT THE WOKE WANT (based economic thought).
    • Soclib.png Social Liberalism - Neutered Soc.png Socialism
    • Socdem.png Social Democracy - Actual neutered socialism and my main rival in most countries.
    • Liberalsoc.png Liberal Socialism - Not a real liberal.
    • Lpop.png Left-Wing Populism - "U sUpPoRt tHe GaY bUt HaTe ThE pOoR" Yeah whatever.
    • Rpop-tinfoilhat.png Right-Wing Populism - A real conservative would be part of the Never Trump movement! Dammit, two failed impeachment trials... Also stop calling me a "cuckservative". Poroshenko and BoJo are somehow both of us.
    • Altr.png Alt-Right - Get lost, you wannabe Nazi!
    • Nazi.png National Socialism - You are an insult to right-wingers everywhere, and I'm not saying this because I'm a "libtard"!
    • Dsa.png Democratic Socialism - Bernout who said that I "simp" for votes, at least I get them unlike you lol.
    • Soc.png Socialism and Synd.png Syndicalism - Union crushing time!
    • Ancom.png Anarcho-Communism - You guys are so naive...
    • Mao.png Maoism - The Cultural Revolution was a massive evidence-based failure that destroyed valuable Chinese culture. #NeverForget.
    • Plcn2.png Paleoconservatism - I don't care I may like your pro-western speeches and we both like Ike, you're the fake conservative, Grandpa!
    • SleepyJoe.png Bidenism - No better than Trump, Your strong Welfarism and Protectionism were the reasons I lost all my hopes for you.
    • Nazcap-Hat.png National Capitalism - This is the future of The Republican Party without me! Stay away from me!
    • WelfChauvin.png Welfare Chauvinism - Get a life, literally my opposite. Marine Le Pen is still better than her Daddy.
    • React.png Reactionarism - Returning to the Middle Ages?!? What?!? You are insane!
    • Ultranat.png Ultranationalism - Damn it! We don't need our country ONLY for ourselves! Be happy with what we've got and just listen to Civnat.png His advice!
    • Jacksonian Democracy.png Jacksonian Democracy - He was a Democrat, vote for me! Wait...(Remembers Trump's choice for a favourite President to put a picture of) shit...

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    Citations

    1. ↑ [1]
    2. ↑ Petro Poroshenko was a founder of Roshen
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "2019 Ukrainian presidential election#Ukrainian television coverage." Wikipedia
    4. ↑ [2]
    5. ↑ The Democrats are mainly a social liberal party, but there exists some conservative leaning factions

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