roronoa79 wrote:
Yugoslav1945 wrote:
[I can't believe how American Conservatives are basically just reactionary nationalists just like those insidious Putinists of Russia. The word "conservative" is completely out of place for America for they're not even propagating preservation but instead reaction. In general, a conservative does want to uphold traditional values but will be more likely to accept some social change, unlike a reactionary who will vehemently oppose such and try to revert back to the older times as it deems the past more fit than the present. So, the so-called "conservatives" of America aren't even real conservatives but just a bunch of reactionaries.
They still identify with the conservative label, because their belief system is unchanged from when those ideas were conservative rather than reactionary. "Reactionary" feels to them like a label given to them by those dang America-hating socialists. Some American conservatives have embraced the label, like how Some have openly embraced calling themselves nationalists. Some conservatives have gone the other way and tried to brand themselves as "classical liberals"; that is: what they think "liberals" were before Obama (or whatever they blame) came along and made Democrats all hate America and love socialism. These "classical liberals" stylize themselves as tolerant and open-minded, but only inasmuch as it makes them seem to the unaware like their intolerance and closed-mindedness are the result of careful, meaningful thought. It's the same angle they use to try and paint the left as intolerant, even though not ten years ago they were crying in unison about how "tolerance" is just a commie buzzword (or something).
It's basically: "If I can't say what I want, when I want, on whatever platform I want, with total impunity, then I'm being silenced/oppressed/persecuted".
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