Conservatism is fatally flawed. Now is the time to debunk conservatism.

Decades ago the U.S. had “liberals” who supported FDR’s New Deal and who tended to support labor and civil rights.

Our nation also had “conservatives” who accepted the New Deal and who tended toward business interests instead of labor.  They were “conservative,” not cruel.

But now the “conservatives” have run off the rails into extreme right-wing cruelty.  Many are blatantly sexist and racist (with Trump campaigning and governing without the “dog whistle” subtlety).  The Republican Party has effectively merged with the Religious Right, and some of those people want to impose right-wing Christianity as the U.S.’s national religion.  Nearly all moderate Republicans have been purged from the Republican Party, which has now become a cult supporting Trump as our savior.

On March 2, 2019, Trump gave a speech to the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference.  His speech was two hours of rambling lies, hatred, etc.  See this article:  https://prospect.org/article/liar-racist-cheat-your-president-america-cpac-seal-approval

This article points out that “conservatism” has no intellectual life anymore, but many people have not noticed its intellectual bankruptcy:  https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/2/1838924/-Liberals-and-the-left-fail-to-notice-and-celebrate-the-intellectual-death-of-conservatism?detail=emaildkcs

This article says NOW IS THE TIME TO DEBUNK AND DISCREDIT “CONSERVATISM”:  https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/6/1824087/-Conservatism-is-on-the-run-We-need-to-chase-it-down-and-kill-it?detail=emaildkre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org