they adopt the southpark underpants gnome plan

plan 1

1. Deport/kill/ban immigrants
2. ???
3. Better for white people who now have to do their own lawns, repair their own homes and wipe grandma's ass.

plan 2

1. Lower taxes
2. ????
3. more money for very rich people who literally don't need it

plan 3

1. spend more money on war
2. ???
3. more money for very rich people who literally don't need it and more debt

plan 4 (society inevitably enshitifies from 1, 2 &3)

1. recruit more police
2. ???
3. protect rich white people and more debt

What would they bitch about then? That's part off their tool belt. Make it worse, bitch about it, make it worse. Rinse repeat.

they do, you're just not gonna like what they propose. medical care cuts, cutting education, blaming foreigners for the fallout, transferring wealth to the upper 1%. they propose a lot

THEY DON'T

I've been alive for over 4 decades. At no point in that timespan have I witnessed Republicans do anything of value for average Americans. They have no ideas. They have no plans. Their sole objective is to create culture war bullshit to get elected, then grift as much as they can get away with, then lose, then start culture war bullshit to get elected, rinse and repeat.

Is voting conservative essentially a fuck-you-to-civi-society vote?

Essentially. When conservatives/regressives vote, they're doing it out of spite for various reasons. Some just want to stick it to the libs. Some want to stick it to the federal government as a whole by "shaking things up". Some want to remove anyone that doesn't have white skin. Some want to secure a Christian Nationalist nation.

When libs vote they're trying to secure a more equitable future for EVERYONE. When conservatives/regressives vote it's a hate thing.

EDIT: To be fair, I didn't know this was on Lemmy.ca when I wrote it. Not taking it down though. As an American I've witnessed the horrors of conservative leadership and that has led me to have absolutely no trust in conservatism on a global scale. And what little I do know about CA politics has made me prefer their liberal leadership on a moral basis.

The position of conservative governments for the last 40 years or so has been that it's not government's job to do... anything. That government in all its forms is bad and to prove this they actively attempt to make it not work. That's the whole point of the conservative movement. Why would they improve anything. It is their deeply held belief that corporations and CEOs are the only solution to any problem, and if CEOs aren't fixing it, then it's not worth fixing, and probably isn't even really a problem. Laws are just a poor substitute for corporate policy, investors are the natural modern aristocracy because money is the only virtue, so if you have it, everything you do should be considered good. If you disagree with any decision they make, then you are evil. They'll use whatever the code word of the day is (Communist, Socialist, Woke, Liberal, Leftist, Godless heathen), but it doesn't matter what the actual definition of those words are, what they mean is "Evil" and it's defined as anything that looks like dissent from the corporate aristocracy.

Well, they keep improving things for narcissistic billionaires and their own self interests. Does that count?

Conservatives only have 2 tools in their belt.

1. Privatization (Crony Capitalism)

2. Fear Mongering (Fascism)

...

In Canada, our conservative party's leader has spent his entire adult life in politics, been an elected MP for 22 years -since age 25- and has ZERO legislative accomplishments to his name. He has not proposed or directly contributed to a single bill that was turned into law.

All while partisanly voting down every single bill that didn't originate from his party.

They think the root of all problems is public involvement so getting rid of that will fix things.

They aren't interested in improving things for others, only themselves. As W.S. Burroughs conveyed so succinctly:

'The President appears on national TV and gives the American people the finger. “I got mine, fuck you! It’s every crumb for himself!"'

It's not just these Neocons being idiotic. Both sides never want to improve anything, for they are under the Vatican's thumb.

Anything they want to do, the need to get permission from the Jesuit Superior General, or the Pope first.