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

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#Wisdom #Quotes #DanielPatrickMoynihan #Culture #Conservatism #Liberalism #Politics #Society

#Photography #Panorama #MississippiRiver #PikesPeak #Iowa

Watching the MAGA fascism movement blow up in real time is very satisfying. Keep up the good work, folks! I will join you one day! ️ #trump #ElonMusk #FuckElon #fucktrump #fuckmaga #conservatism #fuckconservatives #revolution #anarchism

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

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

Trump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second Term - President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/business/trump-misinformation-false-claims.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #ethicsandofficialmisconduct #presidentialelectionof2024 #conservatism(uspolitics) #rumorsandmisinformation #rollinsbrooke(1972-) #kennedyrobertfjr #leavittkaroline #trumpdonaldj #foreignaid #muskelon #condoms

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

"The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive Fantasy" by @sentientmedia

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https://sentientmedia.org/mahas-natural-foods-obsession/

Vegans often are faced with fallacious arguments, and one of the most common is the Naturalistic fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

However, this is often a bad faith disguise. The use of naturalistic fallacies in these contexts, such as the claim that consuming animals is "good" because it's natural, is a disguise for another more insidious fallacy: the traditionalist fallacy or "appeal to tradition".

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition

The traditionalist fallacy is, in this context, the argument that "consuming animals is good because we've done it for thousands of years".

Traditionalism is heavily political, as the people are finding out again in places such as the US. It's sometimes known as "paleoconservatism", and it should be no surprise that the popularity of the "paleo diet" culturally connects to this.

Conservatives, ever since the rise of modernity (end of 'traditional' society, end of monarchism and feudalism) have been trying to reinvent the past through pseudointellectual and pseudoscientific efforts. This has been at the heart of incredible amounts of suffering and horror since then. I have some notes on that on my pinned thread: https://veganism.social/deck/@veganpizza69/110813538364525265

Bullshit & snake oil are not vegan.

Huge crowds march in rival rallies for and against South Korea’s impeached president | National/World https://www.byteseu.com/837180/ #conservatism #Courts #Elections #GeneralNews #Impeachment #Politics #ProtestsAndDemonstrations #SouthKorea #SouthKoreaYoonProtestsConstitutionalCourt #WorldNews

Kosovo’s election committee details results of legislative election as Kurti toils to form Cabinet https://www.byteseu.com/834102/ #119845820 #Article #conservatism #Elections #GeneralNews #Kosovo #Politics #voting #WorldNews

Can Trump and Musk Convince More Conservatives to Buy Teslas? - President Trump rallied support for Elon Musk’s car company, but there may not be enough ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/business/elon-musk-trump-tesla-conservatives.html #governmentefficiencydepartment(us) #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #demonstrationsprotestsandriots #presidentialelectionof2024 #electricandhybridvehicles #oil(petroleum)andgasoline #conservatism(uspolitics) #liberalism(uspolitics)