Has started to grind my gears, since there is no way to quickly explain that I’m happy with the current situation (I live in the nordics, not the US). Historically I would be considered a conservative, since I don’t see a need to progress (atleast at an accelerated rate). However that term is now used to define reactionaries, which are people who reacting to the changing society wants to regress to a earlier time.
Why must we change the meanings of such obvious words?
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Because of the political polarization.
Historically you would be called centrist, not conservative. Conservatism is a coherent political ideology and has always been regressive. Notably, the guy considered the father of modern conservatism was a monarchist who created the whole thing as a framework for an aristocracy to exist within democracy (which he predicted would sweep across Europe after the French revolution). So yeah, you’re not conservative unless you’re actively for putting power in the hands of the capitalists rather than the people.
Why must we change the meanings of such obvious words?
We didn’t change them. You did.
If you’re going to get pedantic about political terminology, you’re going to have a bad time. Just look at what a slut the word “liberal” is.
Regressists should be a word. Maybe dumbfuck already encapsulates the idea. “I miss measles”
Regressives. As opposed to Progressives.
“When I was a kid, all my friends had polio. I was fasted by a huge margin. I miss those times. Nowadays, you have to really compete 😭”
Living in the US, I think a large part of why we can’t seem to agree on anything politically is because we’re using separate definitions depending on which perspective it’s from. It makes conversations impossible.
We agreed on pro-life/pro-choice rather then having people insist on pro-life/anti-life and pro-choice/anti-choice.
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You know what grinds my gears? People who believe in the false meaning of “conservative” that conservatives pushed as propaganda to try to whitewash their abhorrent worldview, then get mad when people start using the term correctly.
“Conservatism” has always been reactionary. You’ve been duped.
I would rather call them regressive or backwards. In my region they are also not called conservative, but “right” or “nazis”, depending on party.
We let them call themselves that. Just stop respecting their self-identification, they’ve basically abdicated any right to our respect anyway by breaking the social contract.
