• grue@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    it wants to generally preserve things how they are (again, very basic human experience if you ask me)

    No, that’s a lie conservatives tell. In reality, conservatism is about preferring hierarchy to egalitarianism. If the hierarchy already exists they try to perpetuate it, which is why it often seems like they want to preserve things as they are, but it’s for damn sure that if the hierarchy didn’t exist they would absolutely be trying to create it.

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      8 months ago

      So you don’t think that there are people who just want to things stay as they are? I would not disagree with you that “preferring hierarchy to egalitarianism” is part of especially more extrem versions of conservatism, but I would disagree to reduce conservatism as a whole to this. Seems way to oversimplifying.