re: #432 GeneJockey

It’s raging against any hint of conserving energy, or doing anything that conservationists would approve of. I struggled with it for some time, trying to understand how CONSERVatives could object to CONSERVATION.

Then I finally realized that there is no core set of principles behind modern conservatism. It’s now just being against whatever they think liberals are for. Though this is most sharply apparent since Obama’s election, it was there for a long time, in things like how they praise their ‘thinkers’ - “Drives Liberals crazy!”, etc.

over at Balloon Juice, this concept is referenced as Cleek’s Law which states that modern Conservatism is simply taking the opposite position of whatever Liberals are for, updated daily. Any other reason or logic is no longer needed.