Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Up here in Canada there used to be a thing called “Progressive Conservatives”. Fiscally Conservative, but socially fairly liberal. “We need to keep spending down, etc… but we still need to build hospitals, maintain healthcare, etc…”
The modern hard-C Conservative party drove them out because a hard-right, Alberta asshole with nothing more than a bachelor of Arts, named Preston fucking Manning merged his “reform” party with the Progressive Conservatives and steered them hard into the “let’s give all the money to the oil and gas sector and let them trickle it down to the peasants as they see fit.”
Ironically, the Progressive Conservatives that didn’t like that, basically all went to the Liberals, who shifted a little bit more to the centre as a result.
I’m assuming that other countries must have a similar group of “progressive” conservatives of some ilk. Ones that are educated and intelligent enough to have empathy, but skew conservative fiscally.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Progressive conservatives is an oxymoron.
It is classic doublethink nonsense
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Respectfully disagree. But you’re welcome to your opinion.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 days ago
About what, that spamming two polar opposite concepts together isn’t an oxymoron?
That isn’t an opinion, that is a definition. The opposite of Progressive is Conservative.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Niether concepts nor humans are monolithic things. It’s possible to be conservative in some areas of your life (finance, relationships, etc…) but progressive in others (equal rights, healthcare, etc…)
This notion that all conservatives are hard-C conservatives in every facet of their life, and all progressives are radical leftists in every area of their life, is frankly stupid and a major contributor to the polarization that we see all around us.
The reality is that with the except of maybe 5% of crazy people on either side (far right or far left) the VAST majority of us are a mixture of conservative and progressive opinions depending on the particular issue we’re talking about.
Thinking otherwise is frankly not helpful. But as I said, you’re welcome to your opinion.