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Everyone has different views and upbringings, but being “conservative” is just old fashioned.
Why doesn’t everyone strive to be progressive in theory?
Why is it acceptable for people to call themselves conservative?
- I think the term 'conservative' should be retired anyway, in favour of the more common use of 'reactionary' (which is entirely more accurate.)Continuity
- Conservatives are resistant to change in order to preserve power and influence, that's what makes them conservatives.whatthefunk
- Right. But then, let's imagine a society where progressives finally got everything in place as it should be, and the right wing comes along wanting to ...Continuity
- ... change it all, and the progressives don't want that.
By definition, those progressives become conservatives.Continuity - Yes this is common. You haven’t noticed? Young progressives often become old conservatives.********
- You know “ok boomer?” Well Boomers were hippies. The extreme counterculture progressives of the 1960s are now conservatives.********
- Conservative was supposed to be economic primarily, I thought.monospaced
- No not really. Small-c conservative just means, “I think the old ways were better” or “I prefer the status quo over change”********
- Cons love change when it concentrates or expands power in the hands of the few (who usually already have it).i_monk
- If there were no conservatives, you would have to invent them so you could have a proper discussion about how to govern in an imperfect world.monNom
- When either side gets everything they want (as in a totalitarian regime) you rapidly descend into awful places.monNom
- Having some alternative points of view is a good thing, as everyone has imperfect information and different focuses/issues which are important to them.monNom
- We need at least 2 parties, Dems wasn't always the better of 2 evils, back in the day Dems wanted to expand slavery and Republicans opposed itYakuZoku
- A real third party is what we need, but the current 2 corrupt parties will never let that happenYakuZoku
- You think you’re all progressives? Tell me how much you love today’s rap.
Check and mate boomers!_niko - Because some people think that certain traditional societal institutions need to stay the same, ie be conserved?jagara
- Conservative thinking is necessary in order to keep balance between continuous development and the consequences it causes.********
- without conservation, we would destroy the chances of future generations.********
- Yep, QBN is quickly becoming the Quirky Boomer Network********
- All generations go through this. Soon we’ll have some kind of meme like “ok, Gen X.” Then, “ok millennial”.********
- Ageism is so progressive.i_monk