• Halosheep@lemm.ee
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    13 days ago

    I keep hearing this ‘status quo’ excuse but no one ever explains what the fuck that’s supposed to even mean.

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        13 days ago

        I’m aware of the phrase’s meaning. It’s not being used this way from what I can tell.

        Seems to me that conservative policy is the status quo. Almost by definition, ‘conserving’ the way things are, or what they believe it is. As a general trend, the us has leaned much more conservative. This is the status quo.

        Changing, progressive policy is literally antithetical to the status quo. A woman in office is not the current state. So why do people say that the dem candidate is the status quo if that makes no sense?

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          12 days ago

          There’s definitely an element of misinformation here. Too many people are rebelling against a “status quo” that never existed