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15 May 2021, 2:04 pm

Younger, I've read something to the effect that when one's getting older, he's (or she's) become more conservative. At the time I thought it would never happen to me. But then, it did happen. I am more conservative than I was.

So, I am not leaning more toward conservatism than liberalism. What motivates me to write this post/text/topic is, first, what I've just saw on television : people defacing the Israeli flag in Montreal. Yes, there's a big armed conflict right now between Israel and Palestine. From my understanding, Palestine started this conflict. Knowing that liberalism is more appealing to emotions than to logic, I suppose that the showing of the pro-Palestine people (or cause, whatever) of some militants is to counter-balance the neutral reporting of what is presently happening in Israel.

My second motivation is still related to something I saw on television : younger people getting vaccinated against Covid-19. I cannot tell at this time whether the claim of that media that the young adults are very numerous to get the vaccine. But knowing that I am more conservative than liberal (and therefore acknowledging the legitimacy of the general attitude of a significant portion of the American population toward the MSM), I know as a fact that that media made a montage that may or may not obscure the reality of that situation (that the youngsters getting vaccinated is not as much as claimed by that media). The probable discrepancy between the motivation of the authorities to get people vaccinated and the reality, is yet again counter-balanced by that media.

Liberalism is more based on the appeal to emotions and affects. It is considered more empathetic (of compassionate), than conservatism. But my belief is that liberalism is way too often a way to hide hypocrisy and other moral flaws (for example, racism).

Raw conservatism is purported to be based upon traditional values. But such values may in fact be the result of the social engineering post-WW2 that came before the baby boomers generation.

I myself prefer soft conservatism : home schooling, respect of authority, refusal of relativism, etc.

Raw liberalism is kind of undifferentiated from socialism and communism.

Since Quebec is a nation, and a socialist one, you can see what could potentially become a huge problem if the wrong kind of politics is pushed and pushed toward the population.

What I like from Quebec is the acceptance of transgenderism, but the official support from the health ministry for sex change (including reassignment chirurgies), the social net, and their openness toward other cultures. I most certainly forgot some.

With the political changes that is more due to come, I hope for Quebec to become more open to reason and more accepting toward conservatism. Because right now, from my shallow understanding coming from one of the only two mass media left in Quebec, conservatism is easily labelled "extrême-droite" there (here). The defamation if the Israeli flag is not taken there (here) as anti-semitism, but politicians are using the alleged systemic racism in Quebec to get political capital.

Quebec, with its incoherent political "aristocracy", is leaning more into insignificance (my personal judgement) than in a place with a plurality set of values. Hence my bittersweet opinion of Quebec.



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15 May 2021, 4:12 pm

Please read up on the 100+ year history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. It might change your opinion.


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15 May 2021, 4:30 pm

shlaifu wrote:
Please read up on the 100+ year history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. It might change your opinion.


My stance was about the contemporary situation, not what happened 100 years ago.

Nationalism is/was the real problem. But the Arabs and the Jews had their own nationalist agenda. There's currently calls for the Israeli people to migrate into Europe as refugees. I do not understand why they couldn't since Europe (France, Germany, etc) received so much Arabs in recent years (one two decades ?).

People right now shouldn't bear the problems caused by the people there 100 years ago. And the early nineties were really rough in terms of national identities. Should I get a Godwin point here ?

My opinion was about Quebec, not about the current events happening in the middle-east.