Current Events > The Federalist: We Need to Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives

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Western civilization is dying. The traditions and practices that conservatives champion are, at best, being preserved only in an ever-shrinking private sphere. At worst, they are being trampled to dust. They certainly do not form the basis of our common culture or civic life, as they did for most of our nations history.

To talk now of family values is to assume that there are enough Americans able and willing to marry and raise children together for something like family values to matter in the public discourse, much less in the halls of power. To talk of defending religious freedom is to misapprehend that the real risk today is widespread irreligion, which will leave so few religious Americans in the coming generations that the government and large corporations will inevitably and easily persecute them.

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Put bluntly, if conservatives want to save the country they are going to have to rebuild and in a sense re-found it, and that means getting used to the idea of wielding power, not despising it. Why? Because accommodation or compromise with the left is impossible. One need only consider the speed with which the discourse shifted on gay marriage, from assuring conservatives ahead of the 2015 Obergefell decision that gay Americans were only asking for toleration, to the never-ending persecution of Jack Phillips.

The left will only stop when conservatives stop them, which means conservatives will have to discard outdated and irrelevant notions about small government. The government will have to become, in the hands of conservatives, an instrument of renewal in American life and in some cases, a blunt instrument indeed.

To stop Big Tech, for example, will require using antitrust powers to break up the largest Silicon Valley firms. To stop universities from spreading poisonous ideologies will require state legislatures to starve them of public funds. To stop the disintegration of the family might require reversing the travesty of no-fault divorce, combined with generous subsidies for families with small children.

Conservatives need not shy away from making these arguments because they betray some cherished libertarian fantasy about free markets and small government. It is time to clear our minds of cant.

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Conservatives need to get comfortable saying in reply to people like French that Drag Queen Story Hour should be outlawed; that parents who take their kids to drag shows should be arrested and charged with child abuse; that doctors who perform so-called gender-affirming interventions should be thrown in prison and have their medical licenses revoked; and that teachers who expose their students to sexually explicit material should not just be fired but be criminally prosecuted.

If all that sounds radical, fine. It need not, at this late hour, dissuade conservatives in the least. Radicalism is precisely the approach needed now because the necessary task is nothing less than radical and revolutionary.

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For now, there are only two paths open to conservatives. Either they awake from decades of slumber to reclaim and re-found what has been lost, or they will watch our civilization die. There is no third road.

dipshits might be a more apt term imo

All of this is horrifying; some of it is absolutely insane.

and soon theyll have ignorant poor people complaining about no fault divorce while simultaneously talking about the fight for freedom

No. Do not delegitimize the threat posed with a dismissive ad hominem.

The phrase "The transgender question" gives the game away. It's explicitly fascistic at this point, not even dog whistling.

The phrase "The transgender question" gives the game away. It's explicitly fascistic at this point, not even dog whistling.

Never.

I'll always be a conservative person first. You can call yourself what you want, though.

that means getting used to the idea of wielding power, not despising it.

Yeah, they're fascists.

inb4 moderation.

I don't know how it can be modded when they are wearing the label proudly.

It's only going to get worse and there's literally nothing the average person can do about it.

If you or someone you care about is in danger of being hate crimed by this kind of rhetoric, it's probably time to think about how you would defend yourself if the situation arises. Get organized, get trained, because these people were ready for violence yesterday.

I hear Fascist doesn't see much use if they're looking for something more appropriate.

Welp

Welcome back

Wanna start a commune?

https://twitter.com/orensegal/status/1584132843285794816?t=v8lAIi0dKmLtmeQzImsTXA&s=19

They're doing the Nazi salute, it's still questionable I guess

All of this is horrifying; some of it is absolutely insane.

Literally rhetoric straight out of Nazi ideology.

Every child that a woman brings into the world is a battle, a battle waged for the existence of her people. [] Whereas previously the programs of the liberal, intellectualist womens movements contained many points, the program of our National Socialist Womens movement has in reality but one single point, and that point is the child, that tiny creature which must be born and grow strong and which alone gives meaning to the whole life-struggle.

A woman who kills her fetus or permits such a killing by another will be punished by a prison sentence and, in especially serious cases, by penitentiary. An attempt is punishable. Whoever else kills the fetus of a pregnant woman will be punished by a penitentiary sentence, in milder cases by prison.

If the perpetrator through such deeds continuously impairs the vitality of the German Volk, the death penalty can be imposed. Whoever procures for the pregnant woman a means or objects for killing the fetus will be punished by prison sentence, and in especially serious cases, by penitentiary.

Right? Nazi Germany also stirred up hysteria about LGBT, white replacement, and outlawed abortions, what a coincidence