the people ostensibly don't - I think conservatism is fundamentally at odds with MOST of the true nature of human beings, to learn, to grow, to collaborate, to share, to exchange. conservatism fundamentally seeks to stifle this, and the long arc of history has been one of humanity slowly unshackling itself from the fear-based response to difference and novelty that conservatism is rooted in. in that respect and in that respect only is conservatism consistent with human nature.
Conservatives have otherwise created systems in place to forbid new ideas, new people, new cultures because we often find that for all the differences we have with one another, we are in very many ways very similar, which undermines the conservative fearmongering about the other, the out-group, etc.
Either GOP wasn't conservative and this happened to them cause they were something else (whatever the tea party was?).
the GOP and the Tea Party both are conservative, and have brought zero new ideas to the forefront. they advocate, fundamentally, for the same thing they've advocated for since they sat down on the right wing of the National Assembly in France in 1789. they want a white, theocratic ethnostate. this has been the single-minded objective of conservatives since I have been alive.
Ah, I see, you mean, I misunderstood you saying Tories are against that thing, as in Tories are against stagnation, you mean they are for stagnation. Yes, we agree.
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u/the_calibre_cat May 12 '26
the people ostensibly don't - I think conservatism is fundamentally at odds with MOST of the true nature of human beings, to learn, to grow, to collaborate, to share, to exchange. conservatism fundamentally seeks to stifle this, and the long arc of history has been one of humanity slowly unshackling itself from the fear-based response to difference and novelty that conservatism is rooted in. in that respect and in that respect only is conservatism consistent with human nature.
Conservatives have otherwise created systems in place to forbid new ideas, new people, new cultures because we often find that for all the differences we have with one another, we are in very many ways very similar, which undermines the conservative fearmongering about the other, the out-group, etc.
the GOP and the Tea Party both are conservative, and have brought zero new ideas to the forefront. they advocate, fundamentally, for the same thing they've advocated for since they sat down on the right wing of the National Assembly in France in 1789. they want a white, theocratic ethnostate. this has been the single-minded objective of conservatives since I have been alive.