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It is often a bad bet in the long run to associate your brand with specific conservative causes. Conservatism, and right-reactionary thought, often exists as a

by badRNG 4y ago

It is often a bad bet in the long run to associate your brand with specific conservative causes. Conservatism, and right-reactionary thought, often exists as a critique or skepticism of the ideology and programs that progressives and leftists wish to enact. Sometimes the criticism is warranted, and this skepticism is an important part of civil discourse. Inevitably however, sometimes progressive causes will win and overcome their detractors. If you tied your brand to a critique of gay marriage, the Civil Rights Movement, or women's suffrage, your brand would face far more damage than being critical of rightist causes.

mullingitover 4y ago
The big failure of the conservatives in the present day is their grouping into a single political party and the purging of anything progressive from that party. The problem with this is that progress usually wins, and conservatives again and again end up on the wrong side of history. History in this area is like the Harlem Globetrotters against the Washington Generals. At one point both parties had conservative and progressive wings. So now, by lumping everyone against progress into one party, they're firmly consolidated as the regressive lost-causers, and everyone who aligns with them ends up getting that label.
- mindslight 4y ago
  Actually, I would say that the Democratic party is now the main home of conservatives. The Republican party has hitched themselves to the conservative stances from 30+ years ago. They aren't seeking preservation of the status quo, but rather the disruption of it. This is decidedly not conservative, and it's unfortunate that people continue to use 'Republican' and 'conservative' as synonyms when they are not. It's a similar mistaken framework to the complaints that large companies have embraced "progressive causes". Rather, those causes were progressive decades ago, but have since become accepted by and part of mainstream society. Which is exactly why large profit-maximizing companies use them for their marketing. Perhaps this past-shifted perspective ties in to the general contemporary homogenization of what used to be historical periods of pop culture.

by badRNG 4y ago

mullingitover 4y ago

The big failure of the conservatives in the present day is their grouping into a single political party and the purging of anything progressive from that party. The problem with this is that progress usually wins, and conservatives again and again end up on the wrong side of history. History in this area is like the Harlem Globetrotters against the Washington Generals. At one point both parties had conservative and progressive wings. So now, by lumping everyone against progress into one party, they're firmly consolidated as the regressive lost-causers, and everyone who aligns with them ends up getting that label.

mindslight 4y ago
Actually, I would say that the Democratic party is now the main home of conservatives. The Republican party has hitched themselves to the conservative stances from 30+ years ago. They aren't seeking preservation of the status quo, but rather the disruption of it. This is decidedly not conservative, and it's unfortunate that people continue to use 'Republican' and 'conservative' as synonyms when they are not. It's a similar mistaken framework to the complaints that large companies have embraced "progressive causes". Rather, those causes were progressive decades ago, but have since become accepted by and part of mainstream society. Which is exactly why large profit-maximizing companies use them for their marketing. Perhaps this past-shifted perspective ties in to the general contemporary homogenization of what used to be historical periods of pop culture.