Please stop using "conservative" to reference the Republican Party

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4. Understand what you are saying, but "nope".

People need to know that this is exactly where "conservatism" leads every time it is left to its own devices. Conservatism is ineffectual, watered down, fascism. It is just a matter of degrees.

Conservatism has it historical roots in defending Monarchy and blood aristocracy as a governing system. While conservatives were forced to shift their allegiance from kings and queens, they NEVER stopped defending the idea that the ideal governmental system was a pyramid with "them" on top and the rest of us at the bottom serving "them". They shifted the "them" from Kings/Queens/ and nobles by birth, to the aristocracy of Capitalism (wealthy people) and since most of the aristocracy of old were already wealthy, it wasn't a big change in the every day lives of people like Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre who are considered the founders of modern conservative thought.

Thing is, knowing that conservatism is rule by the very few and the benefits of society disproportionately going to those very few, a coalition of others had to be fashioned. The wealthy use the religious fundamentalists and the racists to move their agenda thinking that they will be able to control the rabble, but like in most rightward shifts, the fascists will expand their definition of "us" to gain power before narrowing it again once power is gained.

I say we need to keep using "conservative" to remind everyone that "conservative" movements lead to reactionary and fascist movements each and every time in history that one occurs.