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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca

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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Isn't conservatism about keeping things the same? What you said sounds more like normal human groupism/corruption

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Keep things the same like queer people in the closet, women in the kitchen, and people of color in poverty. Not like 1950s top marginal tax rates.

These days what it boils down to is an nostalgia for suffering of a bygone era.

It's a pretense that is used when it is convenient.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course, progress is good, keeping things the same is bad as things were bad in the past. Just two bad things can be two different bad things, and I think this is a case were it is.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I can't make any sense of your response.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Sometimes, political ideologies aren't the same thing as the word used to name them would suggest.

[–] Natanael 4 points 4 weeks ago

The "trick" is conservatives want to preserve a past that didn't exist, they've been told fairytales

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

bear in mind that the US political parties based swapped names within living memory, and anyone can say they're anything and do anything. I can say I'm not racist and be racist, I can say I'm a bad person while being a Saint