Conservatives aren't opposed to immigration. They're opposed to certain kinds of people immigrating. Namely, brown people, black people, poor people. Thus, white "refugees" from South Africa? Perfectly fine. White guys who can bribe Trump sufficiently? Fast-track that citizenship!
Conservatives aren't opposed to education. They're opposed to certain people getting an education. Poor kids. Middle-class kids. Brown kids. Public schools are evil not because they teach kids that trans people exist. They've evil because they teach kids whose parents can't send them to private schools.
Conservatives aren't against abortions. Conservatives get (and pay for) abortions all the time. They're opposed to those people getting abortions. You know. Poor people. Young people. Working people. Brown people. Those people should be raising a raft of future low-wage workers, or future prison fodder who can be used as slave labor. Also those parents should be working two or three jobs to feed those children they didn't want and can't afford. If they really can't afford them, why, their children should be seized and given to deserving (white, Christian, wealthy) parents. Or else funneled into the prison pipeline, see above re slave labor.
Conservatives aren't against government-funded healthcare. For example, in our grate state of Arkansas, Sarah Huckster Sanders is having her Ozempic paid for by our tax payers. And when Conservatives retire, they're entitled to their Medicare and social security checks. No, what they're opposed to is those people getting "free" healthcare. (Poor people, brown people, disabled people.)
And so on. Conservatives believe the law exists to control and punish other people. Not them.
It's why they get so upset when other conservatives define them as part of the class of "those people." Wait, they cry. Our law was supposed to hurt those people. Not me!
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