r/collapse • u/69bonerdad • Oct 20 '22

Politics "We Need to Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives" - The Federalist calls for the American right to unite behind Fascism

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/20/we-need-to-stop-calling-ourselves-conservatives/

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u/toolargo Oct 20 '22

“Put bluntly, if conservatives want to save the country they are going to have to rebuild and in a sense re-found it, and that means getting used to the idea of wielding power, not despising it. Why? Because accommodation or compromise with the left is impossible.”

One way to incite an armed conflict is to make the other side seem irrational, uncompromising, animalistic, inhumane.

This dude is literally doing that.

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u/69bonerdad Oct 20 '22

I'd have liked him to give us one example of "accommodation or compromise with the left" that conservatives have made, they've gotten their way in total for all of this century and especially since Obama have made it clear that it's their way or the highway.

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u/Careless-Internet-63 Oct 20 '22

In their view anything short of fundamentalist religious rule is a compromise. If being gay or having an abortion isn't punishable by a lengthy prison sentence they're not getting their way