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So, "conservatives" yell about "preserving western civilization" whilst violating it's core principles of free speech and knowledge inquiry plus banning discuss

by toss1 9mo ago

So, "conservatives" yell about "preserving western civilization" whilst violating it's core principles of free speech and knowledge inquiry plus banning discussion of a founding thinker of western civilization. Whatever this is, it is NOT conservative, and it shows no modern right wing argument is ever made in good faith or on principle; the yelling is nothing but whatever sounds good at the moment, and the moment it is inconvenient, it changes. They have fewer principles than Vladimir Lenin.

tstrimple 9mo ago
> Whatever this is, it is NOT conservative I find it strange that so many people have a desire to rewrite the history of conservatism to turn it into something it is not and has never been. Conservatism has literally never been about a slow and measured rate of change and balancing budgets. Those are only things that liberals care about. Conservatism has always been about finding some "other" to scapegoat for all of your problems and leveraging the government to keep people in their rightful places. Just look at the major initiatives conservatives have taken up over the course of our nation's history. They fought a war against their friends and relatives in order to maintain slavery. They fought against women's suffrage. They fought against civil rights. They fought and are still fighting against gay rights. They are anti-immigration in a nation literally built on immigration. Conservatives have been on the wrong side of history since the very beginning fighting to maintain awful things and spread their cruelty to new targets. Why spend the effort to pretend otherwise?