Conservative or *contrarian*? | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)
Conservative? (none / 0)
As a non-American, I'm often confounded by the use of political terms in the US. People who call themselves conservatives in the US are not seen as conservative in the rest oof the world. They are reactionary. True conservatives believe in gradual evolvement of a society, while reactionaries fight every change tooth and nail, and they are scared of the unknown.
A lot of the reactions of the Republican right resemble the reactions of the stalinists in the USSR in the 30's. As the Stalinists, these people will talk of and use revolution as a means to power, but once power is gained, nothing will change, and the power will only be used to enrich themselves and their cronies.
The Teabaggers are just their "useful idiots" as Lenin coined his unwitting helpers. 

by Zajuts149 on 11/07/2009 03:59:18 PM EST

"Reactionary". The word I needed. (none / 0)
I've been wanting to make a blog entry about that word and how our own "conservatives" aren't really conservatives.

Yeah, there's fear and loathing of the modern world here, and that leads to envy: a whole lot of people don't feel like they fit in today's reality, so they long for the past--and would have the rest of us go back with them. Part of that is a religious-based fear, that the world will only get worse until the worst comes in the form of Antichrist. (They're more Manichaean than Christian in that regard.)

I'm afraid we really are a "center-right" nation, with the Democrats dominating nationwide because the party has both a right and left wing, while the Republicans are our own Spanish Fifth Column.

by LudwigVan on 11/07/2009 08:06:00 PM EST

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Conservative or *contrarian*? | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)