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

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(05-04-2023, 11:17 PM)Dill Wrote: 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. 

In some cases, yes that is true. The individuals may not embrace the acceptance of A, but they at the very least are, more or less, forced to stop talking about it. It's not until the next generation of conservatives who followed in the previous generation's footsteps that disavow the previous generation's missteps. But they'd still align themselves with the general stance.

Ronald Reagan is considered the best president in US history to many republicans to this day. The same guy who let the AIDs crisis run rampant because, if he was being honest, he probably just didn't really care about gay people. Or, at the very least, did not think it was as big of an issue as it ended up being until it was very late because...perhaps for some innocuous reason, who's to say? Regardless, today's republicans may say they accept gay people (or maybe not, because it was a super hot topic less than a decade ago, which many of today's Republicans ended up on the wrong side of - again), but their beliefs still stem from Reagan in one way or another.

Do you know what I mean?