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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe term 'conservative' should be forever stripped from the right. They conserve nothing and burn
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Down the world.
People have proudly stuck by the term conservative as if it embodied holding the door open for old ladies and standing from your seat when a pregnant woman stands nearby, as shorthand for being frugal and protecting the community writ large.
They are in no way conservative and no longer deserve the dignity of that term.
I suggest the Planetary Death party or the Extinction party.
Your suggestions?
Karadeniz
(22,535 posts)elleng
(130,972 posts)NOT a damn thing conservative about repugs.
definition: holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.
They are WRECKERS.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)mahina
(17,668 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)lastlib
(23,244 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)when Dubya and his merry band of NeoCons were demonstrating that.
So, yeah, it's a sticky term that no longer applies. I am starting to doubt the applicability of the word Republican as well, but I don't think anybody is going to use my term, ReFascists, which is now my standard description of the GOF. Really. And they bought that term and own it.
It is also time to ditch the elephant and change their mascot/logo to a boot stamping a human face, (forever!) and that's all you need for wording: Forever!
Niagara
(7,627 posts)There is absolutely nothing conservative about them.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)Cha
(297,304 posts)call them "conservatives".
And, "con" is too tame but it's more apt.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)Who calls themselves conservative.
K&R
Hekate
(90,714 posts)...works too.
Yeehah
(4,588 posts)The media is controlled by the super-wealthy and works for them.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)wingers. Haven't used the term conservative in ages. It's a wasted word which doesn't describe them in the least.
lastlib
(23,244 posts)1) Wealth for the wealthy;
2) Power for the powerful;
3) Comfort for the comfortable;
4) Poverty for the poor;
5) Affliction for the afflicted.
BTW, they weren't always conservatives--they used to be Nazis.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Just one of many English words they've abused until the words are almost meaningless.....