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Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class
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If you're referring to today's definition of "conservative", that's redundant.
When was conservatism not ignorant? Certainly not in my lifetime. It's been an ideology of anti-intellectualism for at least three decades now.
True, but now it's off the rails.
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Barry Goldwater was considered the father of the modern conservative movement; his wife's work would likely result in his excommunication from today's Republican Party.
I feel like Conservatism USED to be "How can we save money and prepare for a better financial future as a country/state/etc.?"...
It kind of moved along the lines of "How can we stop ~~financially~~ supporting things and people that are different to us?"
Now, the financial part is just an excuse.
No, that's always been nothing more than a lie conservatives tell to try to excuse their abhorrent policies.
What conservatism really used to be was defending the monarchy, and it still is. I was going to say "...and the only thing that's changed is that they no longer try to use 'divine right' as a justification and prefer a different title for the autocrat in charge," but nope!
Every conservative I know I have tricked into defending the British at the Boston Massacre and at the Boston Tea Party. Just don't drop the name of the event and they will go nuts. Kids throwing snowballs at police? No wonder they got shot, they asked for it. A mob breaking into private property and destroying commercial goods? That's not a protest that's a riot, someone should have put the dogs down!
The word you’re looking for is “Reagan”.
It's just lip service; they're quick to waste taxpayer dollars on lawsuits, migrant flights to blue states, etc.
30 years is maybe pushi... Oh wait, that's only 1994. Yeah, you're right.
The Luddite movement was conservative. The Luddite movement was also exactly right about where work automation would lead.
I'd also argue anti-colonialist guerrillas are usually trying to conserve their way of life, making them conservative.
Sometimes conservatism can be pretty based.