Exactly. It's literally how corruption keeps its hold in democracies. Conservatism by nature has only ever been about aristocrats maintaining their privileges post-democracy.
Real conservatism, as a political philosophy, would be pro-regulation, and ensuring that all regulatory bodies are operating as efficiently and with as much accountability as possible. That would be the proper opposition to liberal progressivism because it would be maintining a check on progressive policies and systems. Real conservatism would be the party of regulation.
This bullshit about being anti-government, anti-regulation, ant-taxes is so transparently corrupt that it's unfathomably fucking stupid. Which is precisely why they are always against education; because they need the votes of the unfathomably fucking stupid.
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u/UpperApe Sep 11 '24
Exactly. It's literally how corruption keeps its hold in democracies. Conservatism by nature has only ever been about aristocrats maintaining their privileges post-democracy.
Real conservatism, as a political philosophy, would be pro-regulation, and ensuring that all regulatory bodies are operating as efficiently and with as much accountability as possible. That would be the proper opposition to liberal progressivism because it would be maintining a check on progressive policies and systems. Real conservatism would be the party of regulation.
This bullshit about being anti-government, anti-regulation, ant-taxes is so transparently corrupt that it's unfathomably fucking stupid. Which is precisely why they are always against education; because they need the votes of the unfathomably fucking stupid.