Of course.
Conservatism is nothing but lies.
It starts with the foundational lie that the world was a better place in the past, then immediately segues to the grotequely destructive lie that if only they were given power, they could and wuold return the world to that fictional better era.
That immediately crashes into the simple fact that all of their actions actually serve to make the world worse. Every single thing they do brings more suffering to more people.
But that’s okay - they’re already lying, so they just lie more. And more and more and more.
And that’s where the US is right now.
Conservatism is nothing but lies.
Wow, that’s an overly simplistic mischaracterisation.
Conservatism also includes racism, contempt and scams.
Racism is built on lies. Scams are built on lies. Contempt drives people to lie without fear of consequences.
The world was a better place in the past. For certain people. That’s a lie of omission.
The subtext is that if you’re “certain people”, the world would be made better for you by making it worse for “not certain people”. That’s another lie.
Which people though? Because even white people are better off now. It’s just the gap between races shrank, and racists hate seeing others succeed where they aren’t.
They view other races’ situations getting marginally better compared to theirs, as something that makes their life worse.
Valid point well made - thanks for that.
I’ll be folding that into future screeds. ;)
The modern concepts of conservative and liberal are born out of the French Revolution. Conservatives were the monarchists, and they still are.
Explains why the French Revolution often feels romanticized.
They’re not talking about bringing us back to 1970s levels of unionized labor, CEO pay, or taxation though.
Oh no - of course not. They want late 19th century levels of robber baron wealth built on worker oppression, sickness, ignorance and death.
It is legit crazy that this guy was hired as a consultant by a liberal governor of a blue state.
I wonder of Democrats will learn from this and start purging far-right activists and influencers from positions as government contractors and recipients of government grants and aid? Like, wtf was the head of Praetorian Guard Solutions doing on a workforce development advisory board to begin with? In a bright blue state! I might expect this out of Abbott’s Texas, but Minnesota?
We keep seeing Dems do this shit. From Newsom and Cuomo backing the wingnut conservatives in their own back benches, from Kerry and Clinton stacking their deputy cabinet positions with “moderate” hucksters from the other side of the aisle, from Harris putting Lincoln Project Republicans on her campaign staff to Biden cutting fat checks to Elon Musk’s latest exploding rocket factory to Barack Hussein Obama assigning Michael fucking Flynn to assistant director of national intelligence, Democrats have the survival instincts of a fucking lemming.
It is legit crazy that this guy was hired as a consultant by a liberal governor of a blue state.
Are you referring to this:
Walz reupped Boelter’s membership to a workforce development advisory board
Because if so, it seems you’re grossly misrepresenting it.
It sounds like some rubber stamp bullshit a governor signs off on after his subordinates approve/disapprove candidates. I bet Walz had no idea who he was when he signed off.
Way different than, “hired as a consultant”.
Sure, someone in his cabinet maybe fucked up by not checking this guy’s social media to make sure he’s not a fascist, but I doubt Walz himself had anything to do with it.
That’s STUPID! WHY would Democrats want to Distance themselves from the People TRYING TO MURDER them? Those are VOTES that they DESPERATELY NEED since they SOMEHOW Keep Losing their Normal Voters MYSTERIOUSLY!
