most of us know that younger people trend more left,
and older people trend more to the right,
But what happens to an individual as they journey through life?
Do they start out liberal and slow slowly drift over into conservatism?
Not because they personally changed anything about themselves, but because the left went progressively more woke
and eventually the “conservative” simply left the party
my hypothesis is that the left also automatically internalizes propaganda techniques
specifically, the abuse of language and labels
on the one hand, a man can identify as a woman, and they will re-define what the word woman means, to bend the definitions of words to fit their narrative
“trans women are real women”
Every word of that entire sentence is propaganda!
but on the other hand, the lefty can call YOU a nazi, and even if you explain that you don’t personally identify as a Nazi and that you have never met anybody who ever identified as a Nazi…
It doesn’t matter, because the liberal gets to decide who is a Nazi and who is not
And the liberal gets to decide who is a woman and who is not
And as far as their concerned, “conservatives” have no legitimate say in either case
I don’t think people necessarily “identify as” conservatives, per se
I don’t think people necessarily “identify as” right wing,
or even republicans for that matter
i didn’t vote for Trump because i was a republian,
so much as i voted for Trump because he wasn’t Hillary Clinton
or Joe Biden
or Kamala Harris
I've always been conservative. Commies trying to take my guns was a big issue with me when I was young. And still is,but I also have a lot more conservative issues I care about.
Always been conservative. I'm open to new ideas, but always with the philosophy that things are the way they are because our ancestors learned from their mistakes and traditions are simply the result of them figuring out what worked best for everyone.
So I'll consider a new approach, but only if you can acknowledge how and why the traditional ways were put in place in the first place.
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up"
YES we have been conservative for decades and generations!
Always a conservative. When younger I thought democrats were just confused. It then went to criminal. Then to evil. Because of Q, I know many of the democrats are sick, perverse and satanic.
Always conservative. Want criminals stopped in whatever way is legal/ appropriate. Pro family. Keep my guns. Want government out of my life, stop trying to control every aspect of my life with even the local town laws controlling buildings and making money off every thing we do. We even need a permit to have a yard sale! Stop this mess and greed. It wasn't nearly as intrusive when I was a young adult.
Strictly speaking most people today who identify as Conservative today. Would have been centrists and or in the left-wing 200 years ago. If you classified them according to the original political dichotomy and division of ideas. The original right-wing by and large no longer exists. Even traditional age old right-wing ideas. Or at least Right-Wing from when the idea originally entered our lexicon in the late 1700s. Such as Monarchism. Doesn’t really exist today outside of fringe of fringe blogs. By Monarchism of course I mean the traditional notion where a Monarch ultimately decides policy and participates in ruling the nation. Not the modern version which is mostly just representative democracy with a different paint job and all power resting with an elected parliament.
In part because Modern post-enlightenment Western Politics was conceived as fundamentally progressive. Its animating principles weren’t conceived with any limits. A point where someone could decisively point to and say “The Cause of Liberty has advanced far enough.” As according to the writings of many enlightenment scholars. The general expectation was religion or other similar ideas. Would ultimately serve as the check on the inherent corrosive nature of the underlying philosophy. When history would tell us humans are quite adept at rewriting, reinterpreting, and omitting what we find inconvenient to what we Want to do. Even if it is the word of our God.
Essentially it’s impossible to conserve anything. When the animating principles undergirding the society are predisposed by their very nature. To erode the base on which you try to build.
Expectations of a bare minimum of socially/societally acceptable behavior for instance can with little effort be recast as an infringement on personal liberty and freedom of expression.
Expectations of at the very least maintaining your property in at the very least a moderately safe state. IE not covered in trash, needles, rusting metal etc. Can be cast as yet more infringements on liberty and Freedom. Who are you to tell me how to keep my property? Sure it’s an eyesore and glorified biohazard. But I have the right to live in trash if I so choose.
The idea of there being unchosen and involuntary obligations or duties a man may have to his family, community, and culture. Can also with very little effort. Be recast as Tyranny and intolerable assault on one’s personal sovereignty, freedom and liberty.
The only real ideology that’s shown any evolution whatsoever has generally been the left. The Left drags the center leftward. The right follows along behind picking up various cast off ideas and beliefs of the left and former center. And begins treating that as the new things they’re trying to conserve.
Trump is the most pertinent example of this. He’s by and large not exceptionally conservative in many respects. He’s largely Centrist by modern standards. Though if you keep track of other things he’s doing that don’t get highlighted by himself or others. He occasionally does exceptionally traditional old school conservative stuff with a modern twist in the background. He currently seems to be reverse engineering the incentive structure of feudalism in the background. And once again tying the interests of Americas wealthy Elite back to mainstream America. By acquiring significant Federal equity stakes in major companies. Inexorably tying the financial interests of those Companies and CEOs to broader American interests. As opposed to solely their personal financial self-interest.
My family has always been conservative, just like the majority of humans in history. Men and women were created to serve different roles. America surrendered the care of their communities to the government, which is a big problem in our society today. Everyone wants a nice community, but no one wants to put in the work to improve their own community. There's nothing wrong with being white, there's nothing wrong with noticing that certain cultures are a cancer to western society, there's nothing wrong with being proud of your traditions, and there's nothing wrong with defending the future of your children and their homeland from greedy, godless invaders.
"Left" and "Right" are controlled opposition. Both sides get pieces of the truth, and both miss the most important parts.
The reason there seems to be an age component to "left" and "right" is based on social engineering more than any organic development. For example: Look at the 20s. It was as loose as a two dollar whore. By the 40s (20 years later) the script had flipped. Everyone was as tight as a virgin (to extend the analogy). Back to the 60s (20 years later), everyone was loosey goosey again. In the 80s, people were still a little bit loose, but much less loose than the 60s. (a 20 year block). By the 2000s people were pushing towards gaydom, transgenderism, etc. again. Now, in the 2020s, people are fighting against it... Again.
Why?
Because it keeps "generations" in opposition: This what Social Engineering looks like. This is what CONTROLLED OPPOSITION looks like!
This is functional (pre-planned) Hegelian dialectic.
The Truth is, We are All One (which manifests through the purposefully flawed dialectic as the incomplete faulty arguments such as Communism and/or Socialism and/or the Left).
It is also True that We Are All Sovereigns, and our Jurisdiction cannot be taken away from us. (Which manifests through the purposefully flawed dialectic as the incomplete faulty arguments such as Fascism and/or Capitalism and/or the Right).
We are Both One AND We are All Individually Sovereign.
THERE CAN'T BE ANY OTHER WAY TO BE SOVEREIGN. (a fundamental quality of Nature, or rather, another way of stating "We have Free Will").
A "Government" of any type (communist, democratic, fascist, republic, etc.) can't be sovereign. It has no agency. IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY EXIST. Only PEOPLE can be Sovereign. And anyone who claims Sovereignty over another is lying to you (it is impossible, an attempted violation of your Jurisdiciton AKA against Natural Law), though we can be convinced (though lies and/or coercion) that you are their "subject".
What our (and other entities) Jurisdiction is (loosely stated):
A government that attempts to infringe on those Rights is attempting to violate Natural Law and/or reasonable society.
All other concepts of "right" or "left" or "government" or "law" etc are obfuscations missing that Primary (purposefully hidden) Teaching/Knowledge.