Ok, I get that CO=Conservatism, AC=Anarcho capitalism, CA=Capitalism and RR=Ronald Reagan, but what are BG (big government?), M (military?) JC (Jesus Christ?) and D (democracy?)?
Pretty close.
progressivism and conservatism are both fundamentally inconsistent ideologies: The latter is based off of faith, observation, repetition, and a general feeling that whatever worked over and over again would work again. But it too lapses into a more radical strain as it tries to reach for consistency, this radical strain being neoconservatism or fascism. The progressives probably have a very similar epistemic framework but they are also probably inherently more anaylitic in that they reduce the world around them to something that needs to be changed based off of common definitions (capitalism = stinginess for instance and stinginess=not good, so socialism is what needs to be implemented). But again progressivism lapses into defending the status quo by finding humanitarian reasons to fight wars and also by producing middle-of-the-road pseudo-privatization-pragmatism aka clintonism.
The job of progressives is to make mistakes. The job of conservatives is to prevent those mistakes from being corrected.
Or something like that.
Hmm. You mean slavery and mercantilism are ‘capitalism’ ?
Despotic Ghost Daddies!
The GOP didn’t. Lincoln was a racist. Conservatives, as they are traditionally defined were the southern states during that time. The GOP a.k.a the Federalists co-opted the abolition movement in order to consolidate power, they hold the conservative title in America now along with the democrats. A conservative now, as traditionally defined would be a new dealer i.e. both parties in the face of reform.
They are when those who confuse terms write the dictionaries & spread these misinterpretations memetically throughout culture.
Well when people use the words they usually imply that every ‘founding father’ had the same mentality towards politics. Such as ‘the founding fathers established a republic for the people.’ Well not every one of them wanted the same thing. There is definitely a distinction.