The secret conservative policy, is there one?

The first few weeks of the new administration in the US has seen a lot of uproar in the media. The key media personnel and the citizens are reacting like some of these were unexpected. Given there is a Republican senate, representatives and white house. Here are a few examples of note.

• Obama Care – Trump Care
• 3 million illegal voters
• De-regularising wall street
• Revoking EPA
• More regularisation for progressive ideas
• Reduce spending on government departments
• Wiretapping claims of Obama – Microwaves turning to cameras

These moves are nothing more than classic republican, libertarian or political conservative moves. This speech has varied at all in spite of having nil evidence of it working for the common people. Let’s just dig deep into this.

Regulate the poor and free the rich

The conservatives always talk about having small, non-interfering government. What exactly they mean here is, they want the government to not interfere in the business of the rich but instead regulate the poor. There is a reason why the taxation policies are heavily biased towards people who do not early daily or monthly wages. No conservative government removes regulations to liberate labour force. They will regulate more to protect the rich. I will write separately about the naturalisation of this movement, but for now, let me just summarise this order. The conservatives tap on to the selfish nature of people by extending microeconomic principles to the macroeconomic arena. Here are few examples.

1. Trickle down economics – People are poor because they are lazy. If you extend support to the rich, they will instigate growth. Feels logical for most. doesn’t it?
2. Sell hope where everyone can become rich like an extension of liberty. In reality, richness only exists when you have a segment of the society as poor.

Rich have to get richer

It is extremely despicable when we watch Paul Ryan talks about the need to provide more to the top 1% of the economy at the expense of the bottom 80%. However, Paul Ryan is not that different. If you think about the policies of the conservative governments globally, you will see the following pattern.

1. Deregulate them to ensure they get richer at the expense of the society. Just look at regulations which republicans want to repeal
   1. EPA – Laws which protect the environment. You have to look at the world through the eyes of a stockbroker to not bother about the environment.
   2. Dodd  Frank – Regulation which ensures (at least partially) that we will not have another financial crisis. This will ensure that Wall Street can go back to its merry bad ways again.
   3. Offshore drilling ban in the Arctic – Regulation which will ensure we don’t endanger the A species and trigger an avalanche. Also, this will have a massive impact on the climate.
2. Cut spending on key portfolios where private industries will be able to make more money. The portfolios which get funded are ones where government money cannot be syphoned out to private sectors e.g. Education, IRS, Space research. The ones which get funded are Military, infrastructure where huge contracts can be given to big corporations.
3. Confuse the citizens between debt issue and revenue issue. A person who earns a monthly salary of $6000 pays more in tax than a person who makes the $60,000 amount in profit.  The government then talks about having a debt issue. Government debt is not bad, it is a hope that economy will grow. Most governments have an income problem where the rich don’t pay their fair share. Like Political Scientist Mark Blyth says, democracy is like asset insurance. Rich can’t default on their premium payments.
4. Tax breaks for the rich – The biggest reason to repeal Obama care is not because it didn’t work for the poor, it is because it made the rich pay a bit more. There is never a thought of reducing taxes for the working population. No one has done that so far. Does anyone wonder why?

Voter base has to get smaller

As a society gets bigger and more informed, the chances of them falling for the bad story above gets lesser and lesser. Further, considering the policies are divisive, if you conduct an unbiased election, then the chances of victory for republicans also reduces. That is why historically all republican members speak about voter fraud and more scrutiny. The more the voter percentage the lesser the chance they will win. The story of 3 million illegal voters is not new, it is age-old technique to make it difficult for miniorities, poor to register to vote. It is not like Republicans want small state. They want to replace democracy with either Aristocracy or Technocracy.

Quash diversity as it creates opinions

The conservative base has always been anti-minority, anti-immigration, anti-LGBT, anti-woman and anti-change. The reason is inclusivity will bring in diversity and diversity will bring in alternate opinions and alternate opinions will bring challenges. Any such challenge will threat the world order I have created where the rich reign supreme. This is a way to recreate the feudal system.

Faith is awesome

There is a reason why conservatives love faith. Faith gives everything that any dictator ever wanted.

1. A world order which cannot be questioned
2. Enough reasons to enslave and discriminate minorities
3. Prevent people from using their critical faculties

In conclusion, the conservatives parties don’t have a great hidden policy which will change. Their policies have always been pro-rich. The rest of the policies are means to make the rich richer.