Comment on Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?
ydieb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Conservative makes no sense. It’s not changing for the sake of lot changing. Liberalism is the same, it’s change for changes sake. Both are bad, you change when a policy is a reasonable improvement regardless if its status cuo or not.
Now, I don’t know if lemmy is more European or not than reddit, but the left/right leaningness of the gut feeling policies people have, will be very different than what you might expect.
I would however suggest not looking for “your team” groups as that becomes like your local football team, which never leads to good policies. It’s just hive mind.
Discuss policies and perhaps join groups like that.
I do not have any direct good suggestions however.
Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I agree with this part completely.
Where is this coming from though?
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law. — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
It doesn’t have anything to do with randomly changing stuff just for change’s sake.
To be fair, we can look at the Wikipedia definition for conservatism too and see if there’s a more charitable way to interpret it:
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
I’d say the answer is basically no: this is just an indirect way to say “appeal to tradition fallacy”.
mayo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you think about it in terms of species adaptation, then liberalism is what allows our society to integrate changes and conservatism is what helps maintain stability. We need both and in different proportions at different times.