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> Conservatism is traditionally a great vector for propagating an extreme agenda. Empirically, a lot of ideologies are a great vector for propagating an extrem
by shakow 3y ago
> Conservatism is traditionally a great vector for propagating an extreme agenda.
Empirically, a lot of ideologies are a great vector for propagating an extreme agenda, from Nazism through conservantism to the Big Leap Forward through progressism and many others in the middle.
- exceptione 3y agoYou can't sweep liberalism on the same heap as Nazism. I think that each ideology has it's own weaknesses, but they are not the same. What I learned from this general discussion though is that politics made a honest civil discourse difficult about these kinds of things. Instead, we should talk about personally held values rather than sociological phenomena, as these have turned into political shibboleths.
- shakow 3y agoI'm absolutely not sweeping liberalism with nazism, sorry if it came out this way. My point is that I don't see extremism being more characteristic of conservatism than some other ideologies.