• Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Unfortunately you just stepped into the Hexbear trap. Below you will find a hundred correct comments about how conservatives are neoliberals and that neoliberalism is just another arm of fascism anyway.

    I hope you stick around and read and learn in good faith though it’ll be good for ya.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Below you will find a hundred correct comments

      monkey-typewriter

      As proponents of (small r) republicanism, constitutionalism, rule of law (which they refer to as ‘law and order’), free markets, and private property, American ‘conservatives’ are indeed Liberals. They just advocate for shittier public policy. There is nothing inherently progressive about Liberalism. The United States was simultaneously a slave plantation oligarchy and a Liberal Democracy.

      The presence of universal suffrage and civil liberties are concessions which took centuries to extract from the Liberals, by social movements with many Communist organizers at their core. And yet under Liberal Democracy, we still have legal slavery, lack universal sufferage (felony disenfranchisment along with a vast legally constructed underclass of undocumented workers), and civil liberties which only exist if you can afford a well connected Harvard-educated lawyer.

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      8 months ago

      theres are plenty of sane commenters, they just seem to be downvoted every time.