re: #41 Obdicut

I really dislike that you’re simultaneously painting with a broad brush and using a narrow spectrum.

There’s far more than just right and left to a political issue. It’s a binary attribution which is relatively meaningless.

I think that the behavior of the GOP recently has poisoned the very concept of ‘conservative’ for a lot of people, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with (non-social) conservatism. What we have these days is ‘conservatives’ who deny reality. Reality-denial isn’t a default part of conservatism.

I don’t like to use a one-dimensional political axis, is all.

I think what has been construed as “non-social conservatism” is really something more of sane lowercase-L libertarianism (which definitely has been poisoned by the uppercase-L party and a certain crazy uncle using it as a base for real authoritarian conservatism). Conservatism - at least in the American sense - denies reality as a basic tenet, or rather denies the fact that time moves forward, not backward.