Remember that Prophet David (Peace be upon him) defeated Goliath with just one stone from a slingshot.

And this metric may be the most difficult to overcome.

I pointed out in my first reply, that the very "common understanding" has had been perverted, by __fascists__.

And now I am being "corrected" by some of my dear interlocutors, implying the very perversion I spot.

There is nothing "conservative" in mafia grab of states, nor in __sudden__ trampling on laws and freedoms, nor in anything fascist do. The only valid point is, that self-identified conservatives really are and were enablers for populists.

conservative

CONSERVATIVE meaning: 1. not usually liking or trusting change, especially sudden change: 2. If you are conservative in…. Learn more.

(dictionary.cambridge.org)

May I ask for an example of a revolution that didn’t awaken reactionary demons?

And yes, Constitutions usually are value-laden.

That's a pretty emotional and value-laden statement, bypassing any burdens of proof. Wouldn't hold up in any court I would attend or support.

I specifically used "for me" qualifier, aware of the different meanings of the "conservative", especially considering how perverted this meaning became for the self-identified or purpoting to be conservatives' deeds of the past decades.

For me, the conservative thought is rooted in the Polish Constitution of year 1505:
"Whereas general laws and public acts pertain not to an individual but to the Nation at large, wherefore at this General Sejm held at Radom we have, together with all our kingdom's prelates, councils and land deputies, determined it to be fitting and just, and have so resolved, that henceforth for all time to come nothing new shall be resolved by us or our successors, without the common consent of the Senators and the Land Deputies, that shall be prejudicial or onerous to the our Republic or harmful and injurious to anyone, or that would tend to alter the general law and public liberty."...

The key phrases "without the common consent", "that shall be prejudicial or onerous to the our Republic or harmful and injurious to anyone".

Evolution, not revolution. Consensus, not Dictat. As our ancestors knew well that each revolution afflicts the state by awakening demons in those who fear the freedoms of others the most.

As the old saying goes, conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: that there should be an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group whom the law binds but does not protect. I suggest fascism is what happens when conservatives become confident enough to proceed without bothering to pretend there's still a meaningful rule of law.

Why is Iran "bad"? After Operation Ajax, 1953, when two intelligence agencies, MI6 and the CIA, overthrew the popular, democratically elected Persian government, Iranians rejected the U.S.-backed Shah autocrat puppet & their plan to loot Persia’s oil wealth.

1953 & 2026, "We're taking your oil Deja Vu all over again."

Aug. 19, 1953: Operation Ajax - Priya Satia | Department of History https://share.google/I5iNpcpRiSf7nocI1

That said, for me and hopefully many others, the core of the contemporary _conservatism_ is not about calcification of the status quo but the careful consideration of changes that _must_ come. On that fundament, maga and trumpists hardly can fit even in the "reactionary" echelon – they are revolutionists. In practice, US conservatives were all conned by fasicst with their well researched firehose use of perverted words.

/cc @purplepadma

Trump has the rock solid support of conservatives in America.
This is not a coincidence.

A lot of Western mainstream media will very often self-censor, and obey to the Western status quo. Whether that status quo is not democractic or even full fascist does not matter. And since the decline of paper newspaper numbers being sold it is mouse clicks that have become very important for newspaper management. For example, two column writers in two different Dutch newspapers were laid off after more than forty years because of mouse clicks despite a lot of protest by people writing paper letter to the newspapers. The sad thing is that with readers reading paper newspaper there is no such thing as mouse-clicks that can be counted. People like Trump, Farage, Wilders, and others swinging towards far right, fascism are like gold for newspaper clicks. How else can one explain the daily photos of Trump and Trump's spaghetti sentences on the frontpages. Anyway, the big question right now is how do we get journalists back to doing their jobs ? Which includes to defend democracy rather than helping to be part of the erosion of it.

#press #journalism #journalists

War propagandists gonna war propagandize.

It is funny how statements like this are always followed up with comments deflecting and trying to shift the topic to some other 'enemy' of the US empire.

The illegal thing is that the US and its rogue leader started this war…
Bypassing Congress and the UN…