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Nah, there is not internal cognitive dissonance. They say stupid shit to pander to their stupid base, but they are the party of the rich. They know exactly what they are saying; but their goal is, and has always been to advance the goals of the rich.
At the lowest level that means ensuring the rich get richer. At the highest level it means ensuring class and race division, creating a system of oppressive laws that only apply to those who can’t afford to be in their class, and merging their financial interests quite literally with the government (corporatocracy).
They pretend they are against abortion for religious means. They are against abortion because it’s the poor that keep them rich, and they want poor children to be born and join the system.
They pretend they support our troops in defense. They support war because taxpayer money goes directly into their pockets from military defense contractors. Then they consistently vote against veteran’s support bills because they don’t give a shit about the troops.
They say they support small government. But they want the government to consistently get involved to force private corporations to allow their hate speech to flourish.
The list goes on and on.
Right. Conservative behavior makes a whole lot more sense when you assume they believe rich people deserve to be that way, that other people are inherently bad, and they need to keep them down.
Trick is, they know centrists would never go along with it if they came right out and said that. They don't have enough numbers on their own to implement these policies in a democracy. That's where all the nonsense statements come from. They're preying on people who deeply believe both sides have good and bad points, but who don't have a good filter for junking the bad ones.