Maybe not the right place to ask this, but why are American conservatives called conservatives? Where I live, in one of the EU countries, they would be considered extremists and the Democrats would be considered right wing.
It comes down to how American conservatives are extremely hostile to any kind of change whatsoever. In more extreme cases, like MAGA, QAnon, TeaParty, etc. that hostility towards change can lead to fear, which can lead to things like violence, terrorism, hate groups, etc. In short, they are called conservatives because they wish above all else to “conserve” the status quo (as they see it), that often being racism, sexism, slavery, xenophobia, hate groups, misogyny, white supremacy, Christian fascism, etc.
Maybe not the right place to ask this, but why are American conservatives called conservatives? Where I live, in one of the EU countries, they would be considered extremists and the Democrats would be considered right wing.
The right and left are subjective terms. It really depends where you live and people will be more or less left/right.
As a Canadian I think the American conservatives are right religious nuts rather than just right extremist.
Both are true.
Well that’s not how that works.
Right wing means you believe that some people are naturally better than others.
At least in Canada, most people I know think Liberal = anything left, Conservative = anything right. Maybe Americans are the same.
Basically. Our Overton window is fucked thanks to the Nazis in power. Both current and historical.
That is exactly American brainwashing. You are correct.
It comes down to how American conservatives are extremely hostile to any kind of change whatsoever. In more extreme cases, like MAGA, QAnon, TeaParty, etc. that hostility towards change can lead to fear, which can lead to things like violence, terrorism, hate groups, etc. In short, they are called conservatives because they wish above all else to “conserve” the status quo (as they see it), that often being racism, sexism, slavery, xenophobia, hate groups, misogyny, white supremacy, Christian fascism, etc.
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The name is inherently nonsense. They aren’t “conserving” anything.
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