• Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    It always makes me laugh how conservatism - the idea that we need to conserve and not change, radically changes more than other ideologies.

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      9 months ago

      It really didn’t start changing until the 2010s when it was hijacked by extremists. Before that, conservativism was a pretty consistent ideology.

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        9 months ago

        The hijacking of the Tea Party movement and what happened afterwards was a watershed moment for us in the USA. And we failed miserably.