The shifting sands of conservatism in Italy: Patriarchy, xenophobia, and religion

https://diem25.org/the-shifting-sands-of-conservatism-in-italy-patriarchy-xenophobia-and-religion/

Has anyone written a pithy statement of the corollary, that those who subscribe to this proposition are always convinced they deserve to be in the ingroup and someone else should be in the outgroup (even though other people in the same movement think they're the ones who should be in the outgroup)?

Or does "I didn't think the leopards would eat my face!" cover it?

https://bookmarks.kvibber.com/m/edd81beea683ae04a2ad9490bd80b9b8

The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
-- It wasn't Francis Wilhoit, the political scholar who died in 2010, but Frank Wilhoit, the music composer who wrote it as part of a reply to a blog post in 2018.

In the last resort, the conservative position rests on the belief that in any society there are recognizably superior persons whose inherited standards and values and position ought to be protected and who should have a greater influence on public affairs than others.
-- Friedrich Hayek (Why I Am Not a Conservative)

#Wisdom #Quotes #FriedrichHayek #Conservatism

#Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

How young men are changing what conservatism looks like in Canada
During Canada’s last federal election, roughly equal numbers of young men and women voted Conservative. Since then, young people have gone in opposite directions: young women identify increasingly as progressive, and young men increasingly as conservative.
#politics #election #conservatism #youth #Canada #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/canada-votes-election-conservative-divide-1.7507694?cmp=rss

We Should Be So Lucky: Why the Australian Way Works

https://insidestory.org.au/the-improvisers/

(Yet) Another analysis of why Australia has not disappeared in a froth of beer fueled cynical lazy mismanagement ... or ... ?

This is an interesting , informative and *informed* "assay " of a book by expat Andrew Low.

Yes, it/they does/do reference the frayed Lucky Country "meme" made prominent by that Don Horne bloke.

<edited quote> ::

... Australia is not compelled to follow the American lead any more than it is compelled to follow a Chinese lead. ... they are wise words.

Australians may not be good long-term planners, he observes, but they are good improvisers. Being adaptable, Low thinks, is better than being visionary.

Adaptable is what we need to be.
</ quote>

Yep :)

Mostly makes good sense to this decaying lump of post sheep meat .

#Auspol #Australia #LuckyCountry
#Hawke #Keating #Conservatism
#Society #Economy #Polity #Voting

Cheap consumer goods were a product of free trade.

It’s becoming pretty clear the new US administration wants expensive consumer goods that only the rich can afford.

This is a rare occasion of #conservatism showing it’s dirty heart out.

When you deal with #conservatism, deal through #compassion not rage.

”Daddy’s back!” is not directed towards you, but their own willingness to submit themselves.

Reserve your anger to be deployed as a symbol of missed justice. You’ll need to do plenty of that so use it sparingly!

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/05/nazi-mind "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy" - Elon Musk. Lack of empathy was a common personality trait of Nazi leaders. Psychologist of the Nazi mind
As the "Nuremberg psychologist," Gustave Gilbert had unfettered access to Hitler's leading henchmen.
#history #fascism #conservatism #meme #doge #ice

I see people on social media still referring to Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their supporters as "conservatives", but their "bull in a china shop" behaviour over the last couple of months shows that they are anything but conservatives. Right-wing radicals, yes. Conservatives, no.

In the link G.K. Chesterton explains why.

https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/
#tradition #conservatism #radicalism #extremism

Our Shared Future
Upholding Canadian Values in the 2025 Federal Election

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bmrrFxNnX6YhDsgo_44Roq-Qgdjd3UxueaGTqIAYcVw/edit?usp=sharing

CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate

#CalPol #CanadaVotes #2025CdnElection #democracy #CanadianValues #diversity #multiculturalism
#ElbowsUp #never51
#populism #conservatism #housing #FoodSecurity #inflation #unions #solidarity

QuIRK-E is a Vancouver, B.C. based writers collective, predominantly senior 2SLGBTQIA+ advocate-activists. Read their Call to Action!
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114305429532018275

As this article suggests, these are difficult days for conservatives trying to maintain some semblance of political and intellectual integrity.

Conservatives in the USA have always had the difficulty of coming to terms with their beloved country being birthed in a revolutionary war in which their side was intoxicated by lines such as this from Tom Paine:

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

It's difficult to find a sentiment more antithetical to conservatism than this!

Now I know that John Adams thought that Paine was spouting dangerous nonsense, but to deny the significance of the thinking represented by "Common Sense" for the American Revolution is to deny history.

British conservatives though - why do they feel they have to dance to Trump's tune? The author offers a suggestion in the antepenultimate paragraph, but I'm sure much more can be said on the matter.

I should imagine some old school Canadian Tories must be feeling horribly betrayed...

#Conservatism #USPolitics #UKPolitics #CanadianPolitics #ThomasPaine

https://www.newstatesman.com/conservatism/2025/03/conservatism-is-dead

**Reappraising a controversial figure: Ross Carroll’s Edmund Burke**

Morien Robertson

“_Burke was not just a thinker and writer, but a constantly active politician and agitator, who pushed for a variety of causes that might be called progressive, and admonished the failings of the British elite, particularly with regards to the colonial administration in India._”

https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/03/24/reappraising-a-controversial-figure-ross-carrolls-edmund-burke/.

#Conservatism #EdmundBurke #Nonfiction #Politics #BookReview #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A case for the value of conservatism in preservation of pluralistic democracy in the current United States:

https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/405324/case-for-conservatism-trump-elon-musk

[Canada] Report: Effect of transphobic online hate on organizations, employees
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/new-report-takes-an-important-look-at-the-effects-of-transphobic-online-hate-on-organizations-and-their-employees-271900

* Open Digital Literacy & Access Network, https://odlan.ca
* Wisdom2Action, https://wisdom2action.org
* what queer organizations can do to address/mitigate online hate

Digital Resilience: Addressing Rise of Transphobic Online Hate thru Community-Based Research
https://search.open.canada.ca/grants/record/pch,016-2023-2024-Q4-1363835,current