The Trans Movement Just Hit Home.......

[Dill]

(05-04-2023, 06:48 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Conservatism is, quite literally, fighting as hard as you can to stop "item A" from being accepted and then, when it is eventually too popular to fight anymore, moving on to the next thing, "item B" and fighting as hard as you can to stop that from being accepted.

Often times, this comes with re-writing history to pretend like you never were really THAT against "item A" being accepted, but that "item B" is just a bridge too far.

Repeat with item C, and item D and so on until the people who remember item A are dead and you can completely disavow your movement ever being opposed to it to begin with, but item E is definitely a bridge too far. 

Yes, in practice that is what conservatism does. 

Although it should be said that this shift from opposing A to embracing it rarely occurs in individuals.

Rather it occurs between generations. Conservatives in the 50s hated rock music. It's a staple on Fox now as theme music.
Except for Ann Coulter, most conservatives nowadays think women should be allowed to vote.

This paradox, or contradiction, has been explicitly recognized in political philosophy since the early 50s.