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Sorry boomer, but that ship sailed a long time ago. I can't become conservative, because conservatism is dead. The people who call themselves "conservatives" these days are just fundamentalist liberals that want to openly hold hands with fascists.
It's not just a US thing either, it appears to be an international problem. You have the AFD in Germany, you have Le Pen in France, Reform in the UK. Every single one of them is the same, they are not ideologically anything they just want power and they see this is the best way to get it.
There is a strong correlation between higher intelligence and liberal voting tendencies, and since it is difficult to fool more intelligent people the populists tend to go right. Also they're much less likely to fact check you.
It's a fundamentally liberal thing. It's no different here in South Africa - here is a Head Pig in South Africa manufacturing consent for using state violence against labour organising. That's where I live, btw - it's a reactionary time bomb waiting to go off.
That's not true. When I used the term fundamentalist liberal I meant it - that's what they are. They are not fascists - they wouldn't know how to be fascists if they tried. Can you really imagine the likes of Trump or Clinton violently protecting their own ill-gotten private property? Of course not - that's what the hencherproletariat is for. They are simply liberals that are doing openly what liberals have traditionally done covertly - funding, distilling and enabling those elements of the working class that is willing and able to violently repress the rest of the working class for the benefit of these liberal elites... ie, that which we today call fascism.
I'd like to pick your brain here. I happen to agree, but I'm left wondering if there's also a unifying underlying reason. Billionaire funding and interference? Foreign interference? Did we hit some kind of global limit or tipping point on resources that make fascism and extractive capitalism more attractive? All of that? Thanks.
Yes. It's called liberalism.
remember when conservative meant "let's slow down change because societal upheaval bad"?
i like my little city. it's beautiful. we just built homes for like 10,000 people in the last decade. anyone who wants to come and make a welcoming place for others (including folk not like you and folk you don't like), come join us. i want to conserve that kind of way of life. conserve nature. i'd be okay with conservatives if that's what it meant. but nooooooo these bastards.
It always meant "we like how things are, let's not change anything" tbh. And "how things are" usually meant their favourite kind of people had more power than other people. Or at least it's meant that for a few centuries.