Commentary: Longtime former Republican on Patrick Deneen and the demise of the conservative intellectual

  • irkli@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At base, it is about how you treat people. That is the issue, no more. GOP and rightwingers intend to harm, limit, exclude people for unilateral reasons. The rest of us want to be left alone, and leave others alone, to varying degrees, and yeah some of us, like me, radically so, to let people decide for themselves how to live.

    There are and have been plenty of people we’d describe as “conservative” at some point but who work towards collective and individual freedoms.

    Not fucking one of them is a republican today. NAME ONE.

    And fuck you weasels trying to twist words into lessening the impact of right wing extremists.

    There are not “two sides”. There are extremists, a minority, then the rest of us.

    The problem is the minority has the money and the power to expand.