You really don’t have to accept it in order for it to be our current reality.
What is the point of labels like this if they don’t signal what it is you believe, relatively accurately?
I know what the generally accepted definition is, I just don’t accept it. Regressives don’t have a right to call themselves conservative and I won’t stop calling them out on it.
You really don’t have to accept it in order for it to be our current reality.
What is the point of labels like this if they don’t signal what it is you believe, relatively accurately?
What is the point of labels like this if they don’t signal what it is you believe, relatively accurately?
This is exactly why it’s necessary to push back on those who would twist it to mean something else.
I think you’re about 80 years too late for that. At least.
All battles are hopeless when no one fights them.
You’re not wrong, though. But even thirty years would be enough to make a change, perhaps… or maybe it seems that way to me because that’s when I started paying attention.
Friggen Tea Party bullshit was when it really started sliding downhill fast, IMO.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
But conservatives have always been regressive in the US.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Conservatives have always been regressive, period. Their entire philosophy emerged from the “excesses” of the French Revolution. The forward “movement” (if you want to call it that) was from the “divine right of kings” to the “divine right of lords (chosen by the market)”.
To quote the infinitely quotable (Wilhout, from the top rope…with a fucking blog comment):
I understand the desire to take the positive aspects of a word, apply them to your political stance, and pretend that you’re part of a movement. But it isn’t true. It reminds me of when lefties (in often an USA centric thread) describe themselves as “left libertarians” all this crap does is confuse people and make you sound like a pedant.
If you think this is what conservative means, you’re basically just politically homeless…and have been since you started calling yourself that.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
This, at least, is correct.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Welcome to the club!
I’m there. I vote Democratic but there’s basically no representation for my views to be found.