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I think it is backwards. "Conservative" and "Liberal" are just labels, used in the context of traditional two party politics, and it is mostly a result of what
by GuB-42 4y ago
I think it is backwards. "Conservative" and "Liberal" are just labels, used in the context of traditional two party politics, and it is mostly a result of what happens naturally when you split the population into two similar sized groups based on their political ideas. One candidate will target "liberals", the other "conservatives". The definition isn't fixed, conservative ideas become liberal and vice versa all the time in order to maintain the roughly half/half two party system. There is no conspiracy here, it is emergent behavior that is seen in most democracies.
There are similar phenomena in marketing, which is not surprising since politics and marketing are essentially the same thing, but it doesn't mean the categories are the same. The Prius is not a "conservative", "woman", "white", "middle-aged" or whatever automobile, though there may be some correlations. In reality it is an automobile for Prius customers, and what Prius marketing thinks their potential customers are.
- smt88 4y ago> in order to maintain the roughly half/half two party system This is obviously untrue because, at least in the US, the conservative party has been the minority party since 1992. > The Prius is not a "conservative", "woman", "white", "middle-aged" or whatever automobile, though there may be some correlations. That's correct, but there is a subset of the right wing in the US that disagrees. They're the people who "roll coal" for example. This article is clearly targeted at a conservative audience. There are no liberals who are concerned about whether the Prius is appropriate for conservatives or not. They want conservatives to drive hybrids and electric cars.