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Comment on Britain, Which Birthed American Ideas About Liberty, Has Embraced Despotism

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It is incongruous that he laudes the Norman invasion

“when William the Conqueror crossed the English Channel and put the finishing touches on a unification that had been evolving since the Romans abandoned the island in 410 AD.”

which put a foreign power in charge of England including permanently altering the native language with French yet condemns modern immigration because they aren’t English.

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LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

In political science, a reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante—the previous political state of society—which the person believes possessed positive characteristics that are absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, reactionary derives from the ideological context of the left–right political spectrum. As an adjective, the word reactionary describes points of view and policies meant to restore a status quo ante.

Anti-intellectualism is a central tenet of reactionary movements. The truth literally doesn’t matter; it’s what is in their hearts that counts.

And what is in their hearts is a hatred for people who want to make the world a better place for everyone instead of just their sad, weird little tribe.

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