So conservatives whine about how Obamacare is all wrong for the nation.
Then dismantle it and create their own.
Then proceed to spend al ot more money on health care than liberals ever could.
Each year is liberals outspend conservatives then conservatives out spend liberals.
When I was a child all the way back in the eighties, I was taught that conservatives tried to save money for an emergency and spent it only when necessary while liberals love to spend other people's money than their own/
I don't see conservatives doing that any more. At all.
So I'm not entirely sure that there is such a thing as conservatives any more.
So could it be that the liberals have won and have destroyed them?
Conservatives are just not conserving anything anymore.
At least as far as i know.
The label "conservative" has lost most of its meaning, as conservative political leaders realized that true conservative philosophy had very little appeal among the poor working class. In the days when voters were male and usually prosperous, conservatism could hold its own in a debate. That was lost as the franchise to vote was extended to most men, and later to most women.
I doubt one will ever find an example of a modern conservative government "saving" money for a rainy day. Our new breed of conservatives do not believe government has any right to money, and taxation is a form of theft. This is the bedrock of a type of cognitive dissonance that has stained the modern conservative movement. They want to spend government funds on the things that benefit them directly and in a tangible way, and consider anything else to be a total waste.
This dissonance becomes most stark when we see conservatives state that people who do not have school age children have no obligation to support for public schools. Even though their rhetoric is undone by the simplest examination, they cannot see any benefit to government spending, unless there is an immediate and tangible benefit to themselves.