Has started to grind my gears, since there is no way to quickly explain that I’m happy with the current situation (I live in the nordics, not the US). Historically I would be considered a conservative, since I don’t see a need to progress (atleast at an accelerated rate). However that term is now used to define reactionaries, which are people who reacting to the changing society wants to regress to a earlier time.
Why must we change the meanings of such obvious words?
You know what grinds my gears? People who believe in the false meaning of “conservative” that conservatives pushed as propaganda to try to whitewash their abhorrent worldview, then get mad when people start using the term correctly.
“Conservatism” has always been reactionary. You’ve been duped.
The only thing conservatives have ever wanted to “conserve” is autocracy. When the status quo is autocracy, they don’t want to change it. When the status quo isn’t autocracy, they want to change it to autocracy as quickly and radically as possible.