This mirrors a thread in tOP. I included the post I replied to as a reference point:
Historically Conservatism wants to maintain the status quo, citing tradition, ”values”, the way it’s always been. Unfortunately this position favors favors themselves and has been used to hold other demographics down, maintaining the advantage for those who have it, primarily white, those at the top of power and wealth.
Now there was a time when conservatives were patriotic, law abiding and actually had some heart. I’ll use the 1960s time frame. Then a transition started happening in the 1980s around the time that Newt Gringrich appeared in Congress. This is when Republican politics transformed from describing their political opponents as “honorable but mistaken” to “evil, scum, spawn of the Devil”, it’s when character assassination was added to the GOP tactics book as a matter of routine. Since the 80s the GOP has been on a hard right trajectory with no end in sight until they slammed into the Facist wall. You want proof? Donald Trump.
If Trump had been given 4 more years...
Remember when the GOP lost to Obama and there was talk of needing a “bigger tent”? Ha-ha that never happened as the GOP quickly reversed course based on the demands of their base, a substantial chunk of US citizens, shrunk their tent, demanding fealty to a point they drove out all moderates from their party in addition to championing deceit, mis-information and outright lies as an acceptable political tactic when it resulted in the win.
The closest thing we’ve seen to 1960’s Republicans are Romney and McCain until both of those Presidential candidates were forced to transform themselves into Right Wing idealologs to be acceptable candidates to the GOP.
Now regarding post #1, the GOP, the block of “conservatives” in a position of political power today, they represent today’s transformed, corrupted conservatism, conservatism that has forgotten or rejected everything that it stood for just so it can continue to win. It’s a bankrupted movement that has acknowledged that they can never win in a Democratic election in America, hence tactics have been used for decades to depress the votes from the demographics who are perceived hostile to the GOP.
And post election through Jan 2021 this is just the latest iteration in a Right Wing lurch to facism with Republicans trying to steal the election, in the usual Trump tactic of projecting what they are doing onto their opposition, ie Stop the steal, while trying to get fellow Congressmen to shred the Constitution and install a Dictator in the White House.
Historically Conservatism wants to maintain the status quo, citing tradition, ”values”, the way it’s always been. Unfortunately this position favors favors themselves and has been used to hold other demographics down, maintaining the advantage for those who have it, primarily white, those at the top of power and wealth.
Now there was a time when conservatives were patriotic, law abiding and actually had some heart. I’ll use the 1960s time frame. Then a transition started happening in the 1980s around the time that Newt Gringrich appeared in Congress. This is when Republican politics transformed from describing their political opponents as “honorable but mistaken” to “evil, scum, spawn of the Devil”, it’s when character assassination was added to the GOP tactics book as a matter of routine. Since the 80s the GOP has been on a hard right trajectory with no end in sight until they slammed into the Facist wall. You want proof? Donald Trump.
If Trump had been given 4 more years...
Remember when the GOP lost to Obama and there was talk of needing a “bigger tent”? Ha-ha that never happened as the GOP quickly reversed course based on the demands of their base, a substantial chunk of US citizens, shrunk their tent, demanding fealty to a point they drove out all moderates from their party in addition to championing deceit, mis-information and outright lies as an acceptable political tactic when it resulted in the win.
The closest thing we’ve seen to 1960’s Republicans are Romney and McCain until both of those Presidential candidates were forced to transform themselves into Right Wing idealologs to be acceptable candidates to the GOP.
Now regarding post #1, the GOP, the block of “conservatives” in a position of political power today, they represent today’s transformed, corrupted conservatism, conservatism that has forgotten or rejected everything that it stood for just so it can continue to win. It’s a bankrupted movement that has acknowledged that they can never win in a Democratic election in America, hence tactics have been used for decades to depress the votes from the demographics who are perceived hostile to the GOP.
And post election through Jan 2021 this is just the latest iteration in a Right Wing lurch to facism with Republicans trying to steal the election, in the usual Trump tactic of projecting what they are doing onto their opposition, ie Stop the steal, while trying to get fellow Congressmen to shred the Constitution and install a Dictator in the White House.
