• snooggums@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That isn’t what political conservatism means though. Political conservatism is running the government into the ground infavor of private business interests while also villifying minority groups and idolizing authoritarian.

    It has nothing to do with being conservative about changes.

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      1 year ago

      Well, it’s supposed to be about conservative changes.

      But instead it’s exactly as you described.

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      1 year ago

      You are describing Neoconservative and/or Trumptard “conservative” policies. In the political textbooks, Conservative does mean the ones who want to preserve traditional ways of doing things, conserving money by reducing wasteful spending, conserving our military forces by not engaging in wars of foreign intervention.

      That type of textbook Conservative is a lot harder to find in government since 9/11 happened and turned America into the shit version that we have now.