• @[email protected]
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    421 year ago

    The philosophy behind conservativism is to stay still. Conserve the status. Do not progress.

    • @[email protected]
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      371 year ago

      But you’re describing a standard Dem. Repubs are actively trying to drag us backwards. They are regressives.

      • @[email protected]
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        131 year ago

        This is so infuriating, especially when it’s so easy to show that voting against progressive initiatives also hurts their own constituents…

        • Billiam
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          221 year ago

          This is so infuriating, especially when it’s so easy to show that voting against progressive initiatives also hurts their own constituents…

          “I don’t care how much it hurts me, as long as the people I hate are also getting hurt!”

    • @[email protected]
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      321 year ago

      That’s a popular misconception. The philosophy behind conservatism is to perpetuate hierarchy. The ideology was developed by literal monarchists, and when the “divine right” excuse became untenable they moved on to others like racism and capitalism, but the goal remained the same. It only seems like they want to maintain the status quo because the historical status quo was hierarchical, but rest assured: if society were magically egalitarian instead, conservatives would vigorously try to make sweeping, wholesale changes to create a hierarchy from scratch.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Interesting insight. Thanks for the correction. Perhaps the choice of lexeme “conservatism” would best be swapped for a neologism like “hierarchism” or something to better describe the principles of the school of thought. Otherwise, I made the connection like OC that conservatism = no change, whether good or bad.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          Otherwise, I made the connection like OC that conservatism = no change, whether good or bad.

          That’s exactly what they want you to think. It’s one of the more prominent ways in which they launder their ideology to make it seem appealing to more people than just sociopaths. (Or at least, used to, until they went full mask-off under Trump.)

        • TXL
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          11 year ago

          Yes. The term has been kind of redefined in practise from massive misuse. Just like many others.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      Correct.

      They are in charge and are going to do everything to keep it that way.

      As you said.