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Originally Posted by 68style
Maybe pointless to ask here but what’s with all right wing political groups in all first world countries turning into whackjob religious anti-science wink wink nudge nudge racist parties?
I mean Canada’s Conservative party is probably more liberal than the USA’s Democratic Party is in many respects but it’s even rearing it’s ugly head here within the party and through the PPC as well.
What do these people actually want in the end?
To me Conservative party growing up was just like about idealism and staying the course and logical financial decisions (thought his can definitely be argued in practice) and less of a bleeding heart / a little bit less government interference or less stringent taxation than, say, the Liberal party. It’s nothing like that nowadays.
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By dumb theory: Definition of conservative = opposite of progressive. In other words, they want things to remain the same. And the more things progress, the more they will fight that progress... so it goes from "want things to remain the same" to "actually want things to go backwards"