Some friends I just can’t shake
hard enough
around the neck
with a firm grip
I’m curious, why not find a new title for your political beliefs, and shame modern conservatives who line their pockets with money from big corporations? Sounds like the conservative badge isn’t quite reflecting what you’d like it to anymore.
I’m an Anarchist, a widely misunderstood term. I thus emphasise with actual conservatives who are similarly misunderstood, is all.
how much longer do we need to wait to react to things like climate change, the homelessness epidemic, the opioid crisis, childhood cancer?
We don’t. Oh wait opioid crisis you mean the US, and your use of epidemic isn’t hyperbole.
E.g. farmers over here don’t mind environmentalism, they mind being told what to do by Greens who fail to care about farmers still being able to earn a living – they’re getting squeezed by supermarkets and agricultural subsidies, for decades, were designed to kill off family-sized farms. People don’t mind electric cars they mind having to pay for a new one, doubly so while absolutely nothing got invested into rail over the decades and the FDP penny-pinched the 49 Euro ticket. People don’t mind new building developments they mind that what gets built (by private developers) is way too expensive. People, and this is very telling, don’t mind wind mills as such they mind not owning them: In SH, on the countryside, where mills are largely owned by municipal cooperatives, everyone is in favour, in MV, where they don’t have much money at all to invest, they do mind as it’s big corporations from the city who put the mills there. And this goes deep, studies show how subsonic noise emissions from those mills are calming to one group and a stressor for the other.
Things like cars and intensive, import-dependent agriculture aren’t actually successful innovations, but mobility of people and everyone being fed are successful innovations. It’s especially in these areas where trouble arises when so-called progressives declare the unsuccessful part evil but don’t bother to protect the successful parts, thinking their part is done by fighting something, instead of building something new to replace it.
So, how long do we need to take until the US gets its act together? Exactly as long as it takes for progressives to realise that everything is going to change much faster if they care about being popular with the conservative crowd. Not the MAGAs and crazy evangelicals, forget about them, they’re a symptom, not a cause.
Oh, last thing: Jehovah’s Witnesses over here accept blood donations etc. for their kids. They had to change doctrine to get the status of a public-law church. I think they used an anabaptist-like “religious duty only starts when you’re old enough to practice it” kind of reasoning – that’s a good innovation, isn’t it?
I think you fail to account for the people that just don’t care or are too (morally or otherwise) corrupt to care. You will not get a CxU voter to vote for anything else than their christian conservative values where anything against the status quo is bad.
A simple fact is that actions to minimize climate change will never be popular because it will affect most people in significant ways and it will hurt. We still need to do this, though. Conservatives are so hyperfocused on not changing anything and making other people’s lives miserable that they cannot see what is coming to all of us not in the far future but potentially really soon.
There is no time to appease the conservatives and do things more their way to be more popular, because as the Americans say “if you give an inch they take a mile”. Nothing will happen and that is something we all can’t afford.
What it ultimately comes down to is corporate interest. Conservative parties will do nothing until it is in the interest of the corporations that fund them and their corrupt politicians. As you can see with the 49€ ticket, the railway maintenance or basically anything in control of FDP, CxU or SPD
You will not get a CxU voter to vote for anything else than their christian conservative values where anything against the status quo is bad.
Aside from LNG terminals, do you see anything wrong with this? And now don’t tell me “That’s SH you people are superior in any way so of course your CDU is sane”, in BW the Greens are conservative and could, long-term, displace the CDU. Environmentalism is not exactly incompatible with Christian conservatism.
Then there’s the difference in creed – SH is very predominantly Lutheran, BW Catholic. Miles and miles of differences in official doctrine. That doesn’t suddenly make the EKD progressive – it simply isn’t reactionary. At least hasn’t been since 68, thereabouts.
Speaking about SH and the 49 Euro ticket: State employees get a rebate, welfare recipients don’t. That’s also CDU. It’s not even “fuck the poor” but “also in poverty, one should be humble” (which yes sounds the same if you’re not a Christian). But I really rather fight with proper conservatives about such stuff than with reactionaries about the right to exist of trans folks or something.
…maybe this just is about us actually having at least a semblance of proper conservatives over here and progressives elsewhere can’t fathom non-insane conservatives existing.
There is no time to appease the conservatives
I did not, in a single sentence, mention or imply appeasement. I said that progressives should start to care about preserving what’s already good while implementing, and advocating, change. Even better: Frame your change specifically as preserving something good. Occasionally it will require re-thinking the way you want to implement things (generally for the better), very often it’s just a matter of framing and messaging.
When the likes of Maaßen want to destroy civil liberties that’s not conserving the status quo, and it’s also not preserving something good. It’s not conservative in any sensible meaning of the word at all.
Aside from LNG terminals, do you see anything wrong with this?
What I see is a bunch of promises that will never happen. 16 years of CDU rule before the current government has shown exactly that. Claiming to do and actually doing it is a huge difference.
in BW the Greens are conservative and could, long-term, displace the CDU
That is just delusional. Every single conservative party is blaming all the problems and failings of the current government on the greens. There is no way that they will ever overtake CDU as the conservative party. All that is not even accounting that most of the greens and their voters do not want to be more conservative.
Then there’s the difference in creed – SH is very predominantly Lutheran, BW Catholic. Miles and miles of differences in official doctrine.
Okay, and? Shouldn’t politics and religion be as far apart as can be? Religion is notoriously slow in change and noone has the time to wait for religious conservatives to arrive in 2024.
But I really rather fight with proper conservatives about such stuff than with reactionaries about the right to exist of trans folks or something.
So human rights are not a good enough reason to fight conservatives?! I myself am not trans or queer in any way but something doesn’t have to affect me personally to see how harmfull it is. It is quite telling that this is again just a question of money. You would rather fight for money than for your fellow human.
…maybe this just is about us actually having at least a semblance of proper conservatives over here and progressives elsewhere can’t fathom non-insane conservatives existing.
SH is not the pinnacle of Germany and it also has its problems and if it is oh so great, why do they not lead by example?
I said that progressives should start to care about preserving what’s already good while implementing, and advocating, change.
If conservatives anywhere would be like "Hey we see the problem. Let’s fix this in a reasonable way " they wouldn’t be conservatives. It is that easy. The notion that progressives will just change stuff for the fun of changing things is frankly ridiculous. Times are changing and we have to change too to survive. This has been a law of nature for as long as life has existed.
When the likes of Maaßen want to destroy civil liberties that’s not conserving the status quo, and it’s also not preserving something good. It’s not conservative in any sensible meaning of the word at all.
You are right, this isn’t preserving something good. It is “returning to the good days” that christian conservatives want, because they don’t like the world changing. Returning to the time they think was the best is apparently better than just accepting change and adapting.
This is not even a problem of only the Christian conservatives but all of them. Lindner and the FDP want to basically make billionaires rule the world while everyone else slaves their lifes away for them.
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