Comment on Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?
Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Define “conservative”
What I’d like it to mean - the belief that government intervention often hurts the people that it’s meant to help, so should only be used in limited circumstances and be carefully designed.
It seems to mean white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia instead.
That is because denying welfare to people who need it happens to line up perfectly with the beliefs of those groups you named. Neoliberalism didn’t work out for the people, only people still voting for this shit are bigots and gullible morons.
Even the first part of your comment is some fairy tale rich people tell you so they can make more profit.
I think they’re often wrong, but I’ve known a lot of people who aren’t rich and believe it in good faith.
Of course they believe it. Rich people get idolized like crazy and rich people are constantly saying that programs that benefit the average citizen are bad and are too expensive for the tax payers.
That definition doesn’t seem to fit the verb conserve or adjective conserving. If it’s specifically about government, wouldn’t it be better to use a term for that instead of the broad conservative? Slim Government?
In terms of economics, liberal and conservative used to mean regarding the role of government. They’ve taken the opposite meanings in American political discourse.
Conservatives spent two generations actively trying to make the government worse and less effective just so they can turn around and say “look how shitty this is!”
WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Conserving every status-quo, except for conserving the environment, because fuck the environment.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
And social freedoms. Because fuck other’s freedoms.
randomname01@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Oh, and don’t forget about social safety nets that are part of the status quo but which they also don’t care about.
Waldhuette@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also no human or personal rights. Everyone should be a slave except for the rich. And fuck your vacations.