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'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers
(www.politico.com)
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actually i looked that up recently and it could be that "conservative" doesn't refer to "conserving" something in the sense of keeping it around.
rather, it comes from latin "serva" which means something like "hard work". so, "conservative" could mean something like "somebody who is hard working" or "somebody with hard work". referring to the "we are hard-working people" mindset.
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Riiiiiight. Not that it's in opposition with progress. /s
Interesting background on the word. Thanks for sharing..I don't think that's it, because wouldn't they be for hard working people then? Like the people doing the actual hard labor on the farms?
you could also read it as "slave-holding people", i.e. "con-serva-tive" with-slave-ish (slaveholders)
being in favor of the existence of hard-working people doesn't necessarily mean that you're gonna treat these hard-working people well