No one is “afraid” of shit, besides you most likely.
We dirty commies call people what they are. “Liberals” and “conservatives” in the US meaning are just the same thing for the last 40-50 years: neoliberals. The same as Thatcher-ites over in the UK, and similar types in France, Italy, Germany, etc. The US brand is, obviously, much further right wing, but belief-wise the democrats and republicans are in alignment on everything economically and their only disagreements revolve around a few cherrypicked and rehashed made up moral arguments.
And I don’t mean made up to mean they don’t matter: abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, civil rights for black people, and generally all citizens are incredibly important. But they’ve been used as a wedge by the uniparty neoliberal establishment to drive a wedge down what should be a united class of people. You indoctrinate like 30% of the country in a republic with incredibly bad election systems (electoral college and senate) to be racist, homophobic, etc. and you successfully create tension that leads to the same issues, which are not actually issues beyond hallucinations of racist bigots, being used over and over and over again meanwhile the economic questions are not questions: they are just implemented. No one, or very few (hello, you found a community of them), actually see what they’ve been doing/are doing.
“I DON’T CARE HOW THE REST OF THE WORLD MEASURES POLITICAL ORIENTATION; YOU WILL RESPECT THE BULLSHIT-ASSED NON-EXISTENT ‘DISTINCTIONS’ BETWEEN A BLUE-TIED CORPORATE GRIFTER AND A RED-TIED CULTIST TO AN IDIOT” – the garden-variety dick-for-brains liberal
Why are commies so afraid of the word “conservatives”?
the difference between a yanqui ‘liberal’ and a yanqui ‘conservative’ is superficial enough as to not exist on any meaningful level
tl;dr burger ‘liberals’ are fascist fucks too
No one is “afraid” of shit, besides you most likely.
We dirty commies call people what they are. “Liberals” and “conservatives” in the US meaning are just the same thing for the last 40-50 years: neoliberals. The same as Thatcher-ites over in the UK, and similar types in France, Italy, Germany, etc. The US brand is, obviously, much further right wing, but belief-wise the democrats and republicans are in alignment on everything economically and their only disagreements revolve around a few cherrypicked and rehashed made up moral arguments.
And I don’t mean made up to mean they don’t matter: abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, civil rights for black people, and generally all citizens are incredibly important. But they’ve been used as a wedge by the uniparty neoliberal establishment to drive a wedge down what should be a united class of people. You indoctrinate like 30% of the country in a republic with incredibly bad election systems (electoral college and senate) to be racist, homophobic, etc. and you successfully create tension that leads to the same issues, which are not actually issues beyond hallucinations of racist bigots, being used over and over and over again meanwhile the economic questions are not questions: they are just implemented. No one, or very few (hello, you found a community of them), actually see what they’ve been doing/are doing.
Any more questions?
Conservatives get really mad when you call them liberals (which they are) for one thing.
“I DON’T CARE HOW THE REST OF THE WORLD MEASURES POLITICAL ORIENTATION; YOU WILL RESPECT THE BULLSHIT-ASSED NON-EXISTENT ‘DISTINCTIONS’ BETWEEN A BLUE-TIED CORPORATE GRIFTER AND A RED-TIED CULTIST TO AN IDIOT” – the garden-variety dick-for-brains liberal
no more half measures walter
Amerikkkan “liberals” are not materially different from Amerikkkan conservatives.
both Amerikkkan “conservatives” and “liberals” support Liberalism. They are both liberals.
here’s a helpful analogy
anti-Capitalism : leftist :: anti-Communism : liberal
conservatives are just a specific sub-type of liberals
Because those who call themselves conservatives are not conservatives. They lie. They’re actually reactionaries. Therefore we call them reactionaries.