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It strikes me that having a duality of political groups like this doesn't mean they both have equal legitimacy or deserve equal platform. American conservative
by NoSorryCannot 6y ago
It strikes me that having a duality of political groups like this doesn't mean they both have equal legitimacy or deserve equal platform.
American conservatives have pretty eagerly woven prejudice into the ideological fabric of the party. Similarly the party seems willing to promote or at least enable blatant criminality.
They made their socially-regressive bed and now they can lie in it. "Fiscal conservatives" who don't see themselves in the rest of the picture would be right to feel disenfranchised.
- throwmehaweh 6y ago> American conservatives have pretty eagerly woven prejudice into the ideological fabric of the party. Similarly the party seems willing to promote or at least enable blatant criminality. Wow, what a complete load of horse dung. American Conservatives aren't the ones burning down cities, looting businesses, beating people up, threatening people with violence, and demanding white people give up their suburban homes on an almost daily basis -- justifying it all under the false guise of oppression. The level of denial is sickening, but ok.
- nailer 6y agoThat's a very bold claim. On what basis would you say that?
- NoSorryCannot 6y agoThe basis is the last 60 years or so. Looking earlier than the seventies or so and the parties are recognizable in name only. There's been a pretty radical shift in party ideologies, particularly identity politics, over the last century. Republicans of half a century ago would have hanged the modern republican party politicians as traitors and seditionists.