Whatever “conservatism” is, it does not involve the conservation of a stable climate, or the polar ice caps, or the coral reefs, or the global food supply.
Conservatives want to conserve their privilege, that’s all
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It attempts to conserve an outdated way of life/views on morality and ethics.
Conservatism may look irrational, outdated and destructive. In fact I’m fairly confident it is all those things *right now * in many places.
Look bigger though, imagine why it exists.
It is the natural end point of any push for change. Any system that manifests in the world will inevitably be challenged by further future. Each revolution is faced with the next one.
It is inevitable that when a system comes to dominance there are those who wish to preserve and conserve it, all the energy that was put into change is focused on conserving the system.
The problem is the context keeps changing and the revolution never fits reality for long.
Conservatism in US today does not want to preserve what we have today, but go back in time to restore what they think we had in the past.
Yeah, it does seem to be going to extremes in some places, especially with the extremists in the USA
What we had in the past:
Abortion rights
That’s not what they think we had planned n the past.
It’s ®egressive now. The democrats are conservatives now.
Pull your head out of the American political dichotomy.
Looking at Le Pen, Krah, Sunak, and Meloni, I don’t think this is a US-centric take anymore.
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but it conserves the status quo
This is literally it. The thing they want to conserve is the way society is, or rather, the way it was back in the mid-1900’s. That’s why they’re on the other end of the spectrum from progressives, who want progress and change.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Francis Wilhoit
I had a funny experience of this recently. I was looking for conservation and found what I thought was an empty “Conservative” community over on kbin so I started posting conservation articles there.
Turns out it did have one poster but they are banned by Beehaw so I only saw them when I was logged out. Anyway he was annoyed and told me Conservative is a political term meaning conserving traditions.
So I started posting articles about conserving traditions, especially about how conserving the traditions of Indigenous people is good for the environment. But he still complained.
They ended up polling the !conservative@kbin.social community to see what it should be about, majority voted for environmental conservation anyway.
Lol, what a cute and effective troll.
