Manny Dexter<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://urbanists.social/@MissGayle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MissGayle</span></a></span> </p><p>Yes. My father was a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a>. He died while <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> was in the White House. My mother was a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrat</span></a>. It was my dad who took me to political events when I was in high school. </p><p>He expected electeds to do their jobs. That is, represent the voters who put them there. This why I can legitimately name things Republicans supported that were actually good for people. </p><p>- Exploring cloud seeding to combat drought as an alternative to <br>rerouting or damming waterways. </p><p>- Ethanol in gasoline. The idea was it burned cleaner and would be a way to use agricultural overproduction as well as use waste from food crops.</p><p>- Universal Basic Income. Nixon supported UBI, but his crookedness tainted the idea.</p><p>In the late 1970s, the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> ran an operation called Abscam, targeting corruption. The Republican rep for my dad's district not only turned down the bribe, he reported it to the FBI.</p><p>These assclowns are not conservative. Move fast and break shit is the exact opposite of conserving. Redundancy is conservative; efficiency is not.</p>