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Opinion | Nothing about Moms for Liberty is new. That’s why they’re effective. (www.msnbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Moms for Liberty, a conservative group founded in 2021, aims to reshape public education by taking over school boards and banning books they view as inappropriate. Though new, the strategy of focusing on education issues to advance conservative goals is not novel. The group seeks to influence the 2024 Republican presidential primary and has gained influence within the GOP and conservative movement. While some call Moms for Liberty an extremist group, its members see themselves as protecting families and liberty. However, critics argue the group actually seeks to limit democracy by restricting the rights of those they disagree with.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, this is something new. We don't know what the authoritarian capitalist endgame is going to look like, yet, but we likely will soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They (the nutjob "moms") are not doing this to be pro-business. There are multiple existential threats facing our basic rights and lives. Capitalism and Conservatism may often overlap in their methods, but they're distinct threats with distinct goals, and have to be treated as such.

If businesses could be magically brainwashed into thinking that they would get infinite money by letting everyone be one giant polyamorous group, they'd do it without blinking, because money is the only thing they care about. Conservatives, not so much; they of course care about money, but they care more about power over people.

The problem is that businesses naturally see choice as bad, because that implies the choice to do something other than what the business wants (which is for you to give them all your money). So they much more readily coalesce with the Conservative belief in removing personal choices/ freedoms, than they do with any notion of "free markets", which is why "true" Capitalism doesn't actually work.