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Capital c Conservatism is about hierarchy. Hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality, or whatever. Any category imaginable must fit into an order with some on the top who rule over the masses at the bottom. Egalitarian ideals like democracy are disgusting to the Conservative, unless the franchise is exclusive to the "right" people.
God, guns, country, freedom, and capitalism are trends that come and go, but from Edmond Berk to Jordan Peterson, hierarchy is the throughline.
with the (stereo)typical “immigrants bad, jesus good, gays evil” speech.
That middle part has all but vanished here. We can't have compassion for migrants because we have "limited resources" and clearly they're all just bad people (totally unrelated to their skin color they'll tell you). They gladly elect politicians that destroy the social safety net for the poor.
The only thing even remotely related to Jesus being here is supply side Jesus.
Don't forget that conservatism exclusively punches left.
Sure there are Nazis marching alongside conservatives, but the real enemies are the people who say "maybe we shouldn't be the only developed country where people routinely bankrupt their life savings to pay for healthcare."
Our side may support Nazis but at least we keep the wrong people from being happy...
What I find strange is that for a community that seems to be about discussing politics there is a huge absence of politics. I think the best way to explain is with a few examples. I'll post a few of the newest headlines from other political communities and we'll compare.
Each one of these headlines mentions a politician or government agency and something they've done or said
The slant here is a lot more obvious with headlines being more sensationalized, however, except for the last one it's all about what politicians have said or done. The last one is about a conservative group suing to end a government program that provides charity to pregnant Black women which opens discussion about weather or not that program should exist.
Only the last article has anything to do with politicians or the government. The rest are just articles about guns, migrants, and protests. If the aim is for political discussion, articles should be about politics. I'm not sure what discussion can had with these kinds of articles, other than "that article is stupid" which is said more often with a downvote than a comment.
Only the last article has anything to do with politicians or the government.
And on top of that, that particular post misrepresented the actual article. So the conversation on that one was ~90% calling out the post for misrepresenting the article instead of the policy itself.
Only because you morons are absolutely dedicated to proving that a kill switch is not a kill switch because it would make your policy look bad
Your use of name calling makes you look worse.
I don't care about how you think I look bub
Ideally Conservatism should be about being reserved/realistic and Liberalism should be about being optimistic/hopeful. Kind of like finding balance between art and science if that matters any sense.
Let's take imagination for example. A liberal view would be too help everyone that comes to America looking for help. A conservative view would be America can't just have an open border and let in everyone from every country. These are both rational views. Ideally both sides would compromise and find balance somewhere in the middle to help as many imagrants as is reasonably possible. Sadly that's not the case.
To my knowledge, the concept of “conservatism” is the will to conserve
That is not how any label has ever worked.
As if you'd know anything about it
I remember reading the description of the values of the Republican party in the voter guide when I first could vote and thinking it made a lot of sense. Then I learned that instead of states rights, support of small business, and individual liberty it's all about pushing conformity at every level based on repressive ideology and taking over the federal mechanisms of power to enforce their will, I got a lot less interested.
At this point I have seen so many rabid, judgemental, hateful conservatives that I am convinced they need to burn the party to the ground and start from scratch.
At this point I have seen so many rabid, judgemental, hateful conservatives that I am convinced they need to burn the party to the ground and start from scratch.
Something about glass houses and stones seems pretty relevant here
Note: I'm the main poster, and head mod. I'm trying my best, but I'm kind of a fuck up, and have a hard time explaining myself well.
When you're posting news articles, it's usually about the stuff that happened recently. Combined with "Not all progress is good progress", it's basically indistinguishable from "fearing new things". But fair point, and I've been trying to find good stuff happening, like the rates of gun ownership going up, and high school skeet shooting clubs. I'll give it more thought on what quality content actually looks like. In the meantime, I'll keep going.
I would describe conservatism as the belief that changing things can make them worse, which can manifest (or appear to manifest) as a fear of change.
Im a libertarian-leaning socially-liberal economically-conservative person rather than a standard Republican so I don't know how representative I am, but here are my conservative values: the people of the USA are amazingly free, wealthy, and safe. I am an immigrant; my family got enough government support to survive when we came here with almost nothing, I attended excellent public schools and went to college with a generous scholarship, and now I live a secure upper-middle-class lifestyle. For me, the American Dream is very much real.
I worry when I hear people (most of whom had great opportunities like I did) claim that America is exceptionally bad and demand drastic change. I would say that they want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, but many of them are worse than that because they apparently don't recognize that the eggs that the goose is laying are even golden. I'm not claiming that there's no room for improvement, but improvements must be made slowly and carefully in order to avoid breaking what we do have already, which is both precious and fragile.
my family got enough government support to survive when we came here with almost nothing, I attended excellent public schools and went to college with a generous scholarship
And most of those things have gotten significantly worse because of "conservatives". And the people who want "drastic change" are the progressives who want to restore the old values. What you already have is getting worse all the time.
Because the problem in the US is that political left is seen as the same as progressive and political right is conservative. And the right opposes government interventions in the form of social safety nets, free education, etc. Those are not conservative values, but since the US only has 2 parties, they've become conservative value because the conservatives are also right-wing.
If you're a libertarian, I don't see how you even support tax-funded programs like these.