When Dick Cheney was elected, I had voted for Al Gore.
I’ve been a liberal all along. I’m just more republican oriented now because they’re the ones respecting liberal values moreso than the progressive-oriented democratic party.
Comment on Shock & Awe Dick Slithers Out Of His Neocon Lair To Endorse Kamala Over 'Depraved' Trump
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s fun how the right learns the people they elect are pieces of shit a decade or two after they’re out of power, if only it could see what the rest of the world sees before the election.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same as it always was for reactionaries:
Far from yielding a knee-jerk defense of an unchanging old regime or a thoughtful traditionalism, the reactionary imperative presses conservatism in two rather different directions: first, to a critique and reconfiguration of the old regime; and second, to an absorption of the ideas and tactics of the very revolution or reform it opposes. What conservatism seeks to accomplish through that reconfiguration of the old and absorption of the new is to make privilege popular, to transform a tottering old regime into a dynamic, ideologically coherent movement of the masses. A new old regime, one could say, which brings the energy and dynamism of the street to the antique inequalities of a dilapidated estate. Over the last two decades, various writers and journalists have claimed that conservatism went into decline when Trump, or Palin, or Bush, or Reagan, or Goldwater, or Buckley, or someone took it off the rails. Originally, the argument goes, conservatism was a responsible discipline of the governing classes, but somewhere between Joseph de Maistre and Joe the Plumber, it got carried away with itself. It became adventurous, fanatical, populist, ideological. What this story of decline overlooks—whether it emanates from the right or the left—is that all of these supposed vices of contemporary conservatism were present at the beginning, in the writings of Burke and Maistre, only they weren’t viewed as vices. They were seen as virtues. Conservatism has always been a wilder and more extravagant movement than many realize—and it is precisely this wildness and extravagance that has been one of the sources of its continuing appeal.
Corey Robin- The Reactionary Mind
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They only hate him now because he’s endorsed Kamala
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I hated him back in the day too. Those were the days the Democratic party aligned with my values.