This Reuters article is a great example of how the word "conservative" has come to mean "extreme right wing" -- far, far from its traditional meaning -- thanks party to lazy journalists who increasingly do stenography for the extremists.
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@dangillmor 😱 ...."also pointed to the justice's desire to end key protections for freedom of the press and his criticism of the court's precedent that required states to provide defense lawyers to criminal defendants who cannot afford to hire one." OMF, poor America, where have you landed?
@dangillmor over the years, I've asked many self-identified conservatives what "conservative" means anymore, and have never gotten a straight answer.
@dangillmor And there are these intriguing, and I believe reasonably accurate observations:
"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it." -- John Stuart Mill
"If stupidity has a tendency to Conservatism, sciolism and half-knowledge have a tendency to Liberalism." -- John Stuart Mill
"Regressive" is a more accurate term.
I focus on the Con part of conservative.
