ikt@aussie.zone to Australian Politics@aussie.zone · edit-22 months agoWhy are the Populist Right Surging in Australia?www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAnd being a hate filled conservative isn’t annoying?
minus-squareSeagoon_@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoconservatism is not about hate, it’s about remembering one’s youth and wanting life to be the same as then, it’s about not wanting change but that is the core definition, not the partisan and media definition as I wrote, authoritarians take advantage of the natural tendencies in older humans to be frightened and not want change
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIt may not be about hate, but they often go hand in hand. Fear of change and The Other often breeds hate.
And being a hate filled conservative isn’t annoying?
conservatism is not about hate, it’s about remembering one’s youth and wanting life to be the same as then, it’s about not wanting change
but that is the core definition, not the partisan and media definition
as I wrote, authoritarians take advantage of the natural tendencies in older humans to be frightened and not want change
It may not be about hate, but they often go hand in hand. Fear of change and The Other often breeds hate.