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When i vote R, i didn't think voting for conservatism would conserve to a time before gay marriage (lemmynsfw.com)

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What era in time do these people think R's are trying to conserve to, after or before civil rights?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's a continuum between nothing ever changes ever, and through away everything and start again from scratch. In practice, actual little-c conservatives are often called incrementalists, because no one is all the way to one end of the spectrum.

The point here is that Conversatism is not actually a conservative ideology. They actually want to change a lot. In fact, the current administration might be the least conservative one we've had. They are much more in the "move fast and break things" camp, which is at the opposite end of the spectrum.

I think what happened with conservative movements, is they tend to adopt genuinely conservative positions. But then as the world changes around them they are conservative in updateing their positions, so end up having a collection of regressive positions.

The actual conservatives in America's current political environment is the conservative wing of the Democratic party.