Conservatism is tolerating racism, tolerating police shootings, tolerating Nazis, tolerating inequality, tolerating the poor dying of curable disease while the middle class goes bankrupt from the expense of having a baby, tolerating the destruction of wilderness and national parks, tolerating ever growing climate change, tolerating school shootings, tolerating sexual harassment - but refusing to tolerate (LGBT) love, refusing to tolerate women being equal, refusing to tolerate trans people peeing (anywhere at all).
Conservatism is morally bankrupt and ethically untenable.It shouldn't be tolerated.
Conservatism has consistently been on the wrong side of every social issue in history, so I feel safe calling this 'theory' out as nothing more than teenage angst at a world they feel has left them behind.
It's bizarre to me that this is an opinion people have unironicaly. Conservatism is not equivalent to Nazism. For society to actually function there needs to be a healthy tension between the status quo and possible reform
I didn't mean to write off social conservatism. I just meant that it's unappealing to roughly half the country and it's unclear what liberals are supposed to tell men and women to discourage this behavior.
My use of the term "conservatism" refers to the "averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values" or "tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions" definitions, not the meaning associated with American politics.
You probably need to say “traditional conservative” or something like that to get at what you are talking about. What you see is what conservatism is now. Unfortunately.
Meh, this is a pretty shit article based on some twitter-style "hot take" definition of conservatism, I know people love getting ragebaited but there is no reason for anyone on either side of the argument to bother responding here.
You have an extremely inaccurate and flawed understanding of conservativism. It's like you have concocted a view based on stereotypes and MSNBC editorials. Or are you deliberately misrepresenting?
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