Do the terms “progressive” and “conservative” still make any sense?

Shouldn’t a conservative want to conserve the status quo instead of radically altering society against the will of the majority?

Progressives right now are mostly busy defending what they accomplished over the last decades, so theoretically they should be called conservatives.

Conservatives are busy with burning down the world, so at least a significant amount of them would need to be called something less flattering.

  • Neato@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    That’s because the ussr convinced people it was Communist and therefore leftist. When in reality it used those terms to become an communist flavored authoritarian state and redefined the term Communist.

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      Communism is inherently authoritarian. USSR was the perfect rendition of communism.