• 601error@lemmy.ca
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    Nothing says “conservative” quite like destroying the thing you were supposed to conserve.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.world
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      Someone promised them that they could preserve their perceived power. And return the world to a time that never existed. If you understand that conservatives have no ideology Beyond coveting power and wealth and purely reactionary behaviors. This is all very logical and understandable unfortunately.

    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
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      Only confused or disingenuous conservatives claim to want to conserve the government. That’s why you have conservative puppet masters encouraging celebrating Constitution Day; it helps their useful idiot non-fascists sell the ruse.

      Actual conservatives, the ones in power, see the government either as an impediment to their agenda or a tool they can misuse to implement said agenda.

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      1 year ago

      They’re called conservative but they’re actually regressive.

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      1 year ago

      And the AP’s reference to them as “Conservative” in the headline doesn’t help. They should know better.

    • zer0nix@lemm.ee
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      They want to conserve hierarchies, but only certain ones, and will work to create them if they do not already exist.