It’s not because they’re conservatives that they’re a problem. It’s that they are self-serving morons who constantly shift the blame and divert attention and made their entire careers around such actions rather than holding any real beliefs for the future of their provinces or doing any real good.
I’ve never seen a conservative, in any country, who isn’t utterly self-serving, full of diversionary lies, and ready to blame anyone but themselves (often while preaching about personal responsibility). Conservatism is selfishness, whatever else it pretends to be.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
You can’t be an adherent of a philosophy like that, and not be a selfish bastard. I don’t care if you love your kids, I don’t care if you’re nice to your dog, I don’t care how much you donate to charity. Conservativism is an inherently and fundamentally selfish philosophy.
This is how I see it. My nature is conservative but I constantly see how conservative politicians are the worst and most evil people in our society. They take my naturally fearful and anxious nature and attempt to twist it into anger and hate so that I vote for them. But the mask is lifted at this point. I honestly don’t know what I believe in anymore or what to think other than that any conservative politician is going to be at best a useful idiot for some billionaire and at at worst a dangerous power hungry narcissist committed to the destruction of any law or person that stands against him. Truly awful people. Not to say liberals are perfect, but at least there is some sense of duty in what they do. They at least want to make things better. I don’t always agree with them, but i trust them. I don’t trust conservatives anymore and don’t know why I ever did.
Conservatism used to be about fiscal responsibility and political stability
And at which point in time was this not a euphemism for cutting social services and resisting social reforms? Only the most radical segment of the left is revolutionary, most of progressive politics always has been incrementalist social democracy inside the frames of modern capitalism. Conservatism has always been about resisting whatever that other force for progress is pushing.
I don’t disagree about where social progress comes from, but until recently conservatives didn’t conceptualize themselves as being in some kind of culture war that required them to move the goalposts quite so aggressively and at all costs.
They just always conveniently thought that the progressiveness of their childhood was the “correct” amount of progressiveness. And I do think on the whole they thought they valued democracy.
But the intense cognitive dissonance of the current MAGA movement that pins “the left” as “the real racists” and “the real sexists” didn’t really exist. And they had some sense that completely making up BS lies was not desirable.
I guess my point is that it’s still helpful to see things as a continuity and that there might be different ways people think about themselves if they identify as being conservative.
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I’ve never seen a conservative, in any country, who isn’t utterly self-serving, full of diversionary lies, and ready to blame anyone but themselves (often while preaching about personal responsibility). Conservatism is selfishness, whatever else it pretends to be.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
You can’t be an adherent of a philosophy like that, and not be a selfish bastard. I don’t care if you love your kids, I don’t care if you’re nice to your dog, I don’t care how much you donate to charity. Conservativism is an inherently and fundamentally selfish philosophy.
This is how I see it. My nature is conservative but I constantly see how conservative politicians are the worst and most evil people in our society. They take my naturally fearful and anxious nature and attempt to twist it into anger and hate so that I vote for them. But the mask is lifted at this point. I honestly don’t know what I believe in anymore or what to think other than that any conservative politician is going to be at best a useful idiot for some billionaire and at at worst a dangerous power hungry narcissist committed to the destruction of any law or person that stands against him. Truly awful people. Not to say liberals are perfect, but at least there is some sense of duty in what they do. They at least want to make things better. I don’t always agree with them, but i trust them. I don’t trust conservatives anymore and don’t know why I ever did.
This is an interesting perspective to see
Conservatism used to be about fiscal responsibility and political stability (don’t downvote me for explaining this, I’ve never voted conservative).
But yeah, it’s been hijacked by emotionally volitaile reactionists.
And at which point in time was this not a euphemism for cutting social services and resisting social reforms? Only the most radical segment of the left is revolutionary, most of progressive politics always has been incrementalist social democracy inside the frames of modern capitalism. Conservatism has always been about resisting whatever that other force for progress is pushing.
I don’t disagree about where social progress comes from, but until recently conservatives didn’t conceptualize themselves as being in some kind of culture war that required them to move the goalposts quite so aggressively and at all costs.
They just always conveniently thought that the progressiveness of their childhood was the “correct” amount of progressiveness. And I do think on the whole they thought they valued democracy.
But the intense cognitive dissonance of the current MAGA movement that pins “the left” as “the real racists” and “the real sexists” didn’t really exist. And they had some sense that completely making up BS lies was not desirable.
I guess my point is that it’s still helpful to see things as a continuity and that there might be different ways people think about themselves if they identify as being conservative.