I don’t read r/conservative much but what I’ve seen is they keep banning actual conservatives because they correctly call out what Trump is doing on things where it’s not about left and right but right and wrong.
Some people are saying that it could be coincidental. OP asks why would the two accounts who post so regularly just happen to both stop at the same time on that day.
Yup because they’re anti education.
I feel like “conservatism” has lost all rationality. I do get that it’s totally possible that “not rocking the boat” could be a good solution to society’s progress for some niches but 99% of the time it’s absolutely irational.
In fact, most conservative issues like “traditional family unit”, “gun freedom” are better approached through progressive frame like incentives to celebrate local culture and protecting human rights like rights to self defence - these are fundamentally progressive thoughts that actually solve the issue in a real meaningful way rather than just hiding behind in-action.
I really try to understand conservatism as a thought movement but there seems to be no actual thought behind it. I genuinely don’t get it.
It looks contradictory but there is logic to it. They want hierarchies, just like there was before - where Christian white men are on top and everyone else has no rights. Those are the “traditional values” they want to uphold. If you filter everything through that lens, their actions start to make sense. Technically this isn’t called conservatism (since this isn’t about a monarchy), but that’s the label they gave it.
But that’s not conservatism per se, it’s just fascism