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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.
Overton window got yeeted so far to the right it ended up hitting 88mph and travelling back to 1930s germany
Man, it hits so hard because it's true.
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.
why are American conservatives called conservatives?
For a full depth, non-lemmy-grade answer, a wikipedia article on US political ideologies explains the history & meanings.
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.
Well that's not how that works.
Right wing means you believe that some people are naturally better than others.
Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable,[1][2][3] typically supporting this position in favour of conservatism, natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, or tradition.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences[11][12] or competition in market economies.
I think the American conservatives are right religious nuts rather than just right extremist.
Both are true.
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.
American "conservatives" are anything but conservative.
They're hyper liberal. They're ripping up precedent left and right to institute how the think things "should be" as if it's 250 years ago. The billionaires want slavery. They want to eradicate all minorities and anybody who isn't white. They don't have the support to do all of this all at once, so they're starting with the people who will never support them first. Take away the support of the opposition and more and more unpopular actions can be taken to push things towards an oligarch controlled white christian nationalist organization.
They're spending money like crazy but only in ways that support them politically. They're trying to drive out anything that is remotely left ideologically until the middle is the left, and then they're next.
Oh yeah, I agree with you. They have driven the Overton window into another dimension.
I've been marathoning the old twilight zone episodes and it's amazing how much today's reality feels like we're living in one of those episodes.
Makes me wonder what Rod Serling would say today.
That's such a great show. I have only seen a few episodes but I really enjoyed everything that I have seen and I'm slowly working my way into it. A friend of mine likes it and she turned me on to it a few months ago. And Serling actually seems like a legitimate bad ass.
Jesus was definitely a libertarian and definitely not a conservative. Oh, except for inside a temple on markets day.
These people do not care about Jesus lol
Yeah. Jesus would never recognize these people as true Christians. He would be looking for cameras and shit thinking someone was trying to punk him. Lol
Why would anybody use Threads? I made an account on there just to see what it's about and it was so shitty that I ended up deleting it a couple of hours later. Most of the content is just ragebait, political misinformation, and businesses/influencers trying to shill something. For every 10 posts you might get 1 or 2 that don't fall in these categories. It's just bad, and not in a good way.
So it’s like all of social media since forever? Shocking!
It's bad even for social media standards.
There was a handful of people I met there that I thought were cool that going back to Mastodon wanted to follow and honestly it's the only sane way to interact with that platform, it feels like TMZ made a Twitter clone.
It feels like TMZ made a Twitter clone.
This is the most accurate description of Threads I've ever seen
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