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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWilhoit's Law. Conservatism in a nutshell.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit
valleyrogue
(2,590 posts)It is the radical right.
Any time somebody use "conservative" to describe the radical right, I can tell somebody's age. "Conservatism" hasn't been around since the Bush II era. Those people were booted out of the GOP or they quit.
Jessica Valenti, who has the Substack, Abortion, Every Day, does this all the time and doesn't understand the simple fact there is no "conservative" movement in the U.S. in the third decade of the 21st century. She doesn't know what she is talking about, and I can't read her work anymore because of it.
LearnedHand
(5,241 posts)It doesnt matter what the traditional definition is anymore. And Wilhoits law exactly fits todays situation.
jfz9580m
(16,584 posts)To craft a message so as to please everyone who reads it so people use shorthand.
For years in my anxious haste (in a hostage like situation) to be politically correct as someone with no sympathy for religion, conservatism etc, I would hasten to say Not all cons/not all religious and in placating the people who at most superficially sympathize, I was shafting the people likeliest to actually sympathize politically, while avoiding anyone I didnt want harassed by the nuisances inflicted by these horrible societies that are getting built with maximum exploitation and obnoxiousness.
(Capcha: op Ukrainian flag/ valley-rogues is Kansas..lol)
usonian
(23,589 posts)The days of "Small Government and Less Government Interference"