What is it called to be socially conservative and fiscally liberal?
Every time I search online the words 'socially conservative and fiscally liberal', 70% of the results are in reverse, so they are of people asking about or criticising libertarianism without realising what it's called.
I've read loads of forums where people ask this question, and dozens of people try to answer but not one says communitarian. I've seen answers like Neocon, Blue Dog and even fascist, which are all woefully and laughably wrong.
Being communitarian is more than this simple combination, however. I'll admit that starting this blog has been a huge learning experience in different ways, including what communitarianism means.
I first thought it was just tradcon and economic social democratic views, but I've learned there's far more:
The core of communitarianism is solidarity and relationships. Common relations and participation is politics and economics is the heart of our ideology.
Unlike liberals and conservatives, who view the world as a individualist, nihilist and reciprocal system.
Is it weird or uncommon to be socially conservative and fiscally liberal?
This combination is not odd or even as uncommon as you may think. But there are a lot people who actually fall in this category have never even heard of the word 'communitarianism'.
Most Christians, especially Catholics, are actually communitarian but identity as liberal, and vote Democrat, Labour or whichever left-wing party in their country. But their votes and opinions blend in with the rest of liberals.
'Christian democracy' is a far more well known name for this ideology, but it has less emphasise on federalism, border control and cooperatives. I can't really think of many parties across the globe that explicitly label themselves as Christian Democratic Party, apart from American Solidarity Party and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's, Christian Democratic Union.
But if Merkel was actually a Christian democrat or communitarian, her country wouldn't be infected by violent Muslim 'asylum seekers', a loyal lapdog for Washington imperialism and the list goes on.
Besides the fact she has a communist background, nothing says Christian like joining the ideology that demolished churches across an entire empire.
Nevertheless, tradcons and Christians alike receive a lot of criticism of being prejudiced and hateful, from ignorant and hypocritical liberals.
We believe in social solidarity, responsibility, equity, tradition and the sanctity of life.
The more I think about, the more I'm surprised and confused that it's the norm for usually Christian conservatives to believe in such cold and greedy economic policies spouted by Republicans and the like.
Why aren't there many parties or pressure groups that are social conservatives and fiscal liberals?
I've written an entire post that answers this, but in short it's because of greed and secularism.
Why is communitarianism so unheard of?
Once you discover communitarianism, you realise that it is in fact more overtly common like you thought; as I've written above there are political organisations out there. It's like discovering a secret civilisation.
But the main reason that I think communitarianism is unheard of, is not because of it's supposed unpopularity but because it's not controversial.
Dare I mention the alt-right? Every casual follower of the news has heard of an uptick in "white supremacy" and "sexism". Thus drawing more exposure to the movement.
The Alt-right is daring, shocking, explicit, dangerous and exciting to everyday people.
Communitarianism is sensible and tame, it's not provocative and a headline generator.
Another reason is that the alt-right are neck deep in meme culture so their messages are circling the internet like shit in a sewer. Pepe the Frog and the Kekistan flag are iconic. The words 'cuck' and 'beta' are used even by liberals who despise Roosh V.
There aren't any funny or catchy swear words that communitarians came up with, I just adopt ones that I've already read; like 'libtard' and 'Europhile'.
However, I don't remember reading words like 'jackals' and 'wild west' to describe neoliberalism before using them myself. I just gave myself a pat on the back.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying communitarians should tarnish themselves and stoop so low, I'm just making a theory as to how the alt-right become the popular populism and not us.
One of the goals of the Section is to make people snap out of the alt-right dogma and see the (orange) light.
These four questions are seen cropping up amongst lost communitarians, and those who know the ideology but wonder about it. I hope this short post has clarified a few things.