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 #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah

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**Toni Aittoniemi** @gimulnautti@mastodon.green · Mar 7

Mar 7

Toni Aittoniemi @gimulnautti@mastodon.green

@carlysagan This is the beating heart of #conservatism. Inequality in the face of law, based on hierarchy & loyalty. #wilhoitslaw

**D C Fitzgerald** @tangledwing@ohai.social · Mar 5 *

Mar 5 *

D C Fitzgerald @tangledwing@ohai.social

They probably don’t know what an mRNA vaccine is. Whiskey does more to devastate the human body, but whatever. Science is hard. #meme #health #vaccines #science #iowa #bizarre #weird #gop #conservatism

**Stuff I found** @stuffifound@pixelfed.social · Mar 1

Mar 1

Stuff I found @stuffifound@pixelfed.social

Conservatism is longing back to a time that never existed

#conservatives #conservatism #antitrump #antiwilders #antijohnsson #antiweidel #activism #politics #politicalactivism #farright

#farright

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**Toni Aittoniemi** @gimulnautti@mastodon.green · Feb 27 *

Feb 27 *

Toni Aittoniemi @gimulnautti@mastodon.green

@SnowshadowII @Sir_Osis_of_Liver An increased sensitivity to fear & threats has been found to correlate with conservative politics.

The correlation is surprisingly strong, 0.2 to 0.3.

Brain structure scans and neuropsychology validate these findings.

Here is a huge meta-analysis of the topic with over 200 references:
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/3/pgac066/6590843

Some easier ones:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18801995/
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(11)00289-2

#Authoritarianism is their solution to fear

OUP AcademicFunctional connectivity signatures of political ideologyAbstract. Emerging research has begun investigating the neural underpinnings of the biological and psychological differences that drive political ideology,

#politicalneurophysiology #conservatism

**DoomsdaysCW** @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social · Feb 20

Feb 20

DoomsdaysCW @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social

“Crack-Up #Capitalism”: #Historian #QuinnSlobodian on #Trump, #Musk & the Movement to “Shatter” the State

#DemocracyNow, February 20, 2025

"Who are the minds behind #DOGE, and what do they really believe? Historian Quinn Slobodian says three strains of #conservatism have converged to form the second Trump administration’s #AntiDemocratic coalition: finance-backed #CorporateInterests previously friendly to the #DemocraticParty, #ChristianConservative think tanks who have long advocated for the end of the administrative state, and the online-driven movement of reactionary extremists who traffic in #WhiteSupremacist and #NeoNazi rhetoric. Meanwhile, says Slobodian, 'Trump is a person who doesn’t believe in much, but he believes in #money,' leaving him willing to enact the political visions of these three #ProCapitalist projects. Slobodian, an expert in German history, also discusses the connections between the Trump sphere and Germany’s far-right Alternative for #Germany (#AfD) party, supported by Musk and Vice President #JDVance.'"

Read / listen / watch:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/20/quinn_slobodian_maga_doge_capitalism
#USPol #FarRight #CorporateColonialism #Capitalism #ChristoFascists

Democracy Now! · Feb 20“Crack-Up Capitalism”: Historian Quinn Slobodian on Trump, Musk & the Movement to “Shatter” the StateBy Democracy Now!

**North Love** @northlove152@mastodon.social · Feb 18

Feb 18

North Love @northlove152@mastodon.social

#zionism #jüdischevorherrschaft #faschismus

**PaulaToThePeople** @PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social · Feb 17 *

Feb 17 *

PaulaToThePeople @PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social

They: Climate mitigation mustn't impair social justice.

Me: So you want climate justice?

They: No, that would impair capitalism. We want capitalism to keep impairing social justice.

Me: So you're just fearmongering to distract from your cruelties?

They: Of course. That's what we always do.

#ClimateJustice #capitalism #SocialJustice

**Europe Says** @europesays@pubeurope.com · Feb 16

**Bytes Europe** @byteseu@pubeurope.com · Feb 15

Feb 15

Bytes Europe @byteseu@pubeurope.com

How Hungary’s ‘electoral autocracy’ parallels Trump’s return https://www.byteseu.com/747793/ #Congress #conservatism #Democracy #DonaldTrump #Elections #Europe #GeneralNews #GovernmentAndPolitics #Hungary #JoeBiden #KimLaneScheppele #LegalProceedings #RussiaUkraineWar #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesCongress #UnitedStatesGovernment #ViktorOrban #VladimirPutin #WashingtonNews #WorldNews

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**Thor A. Hopland** @hopland@snabelen.no · Feb 4

Feb 4

Thor A. Hopland @hopland@snabelen.no

@are0h we're talking about #liberals here. Both #liberalism and #conservatism have roots and overlap with #nationalism.

If you manage to sneak a couple slices of #theocracy and #ethnonationlism into that shit sandwich, all the better, because now you're getting the #populist vote.

I gotta keep reminding #leftists: make secret safe spaces, cus when the economic shit hits the fan, you know who will be the scapegoat.

Also, you're a melanated yankie. Go to the range, often, and teach others.

**Chris Alemany** @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca · Feb 3

Feb 3

Chris Alemany @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca

Paul Martin’s Liberal Government dismantled (ie. downloaded) Federal supports for public education almost thirty years ago. So really Trump is just following our lead here.

Worked out great…..

Capitalists and Fascists hate educated populations.

#neoliberalism #education #conservatism https://flipboard.com/@cbsnews/politics-fcotvfd4z/-/a-6mSngxArS8ORgZVhBFOWXA%3Aa%3A2476075171-%2F0

CBS News - By Jennifer Jacobs · Feb 3Trump considering executive action to dismantle Education Department, sources sayBy CBS News - By Jennifer Jacobs

**Jonathan Emmesedi** @jemmesedi@c.im · Feb 2

Feb 2

Jonathan Emmesedi @jemmesedi@c.im

However tempting it is to dismiss people like Braverman and Truss as delulu fringe elements, they are in fact symptomatic of the decline of old style conservatism and its replacement by the radical right wing.

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/01/deranged-rant-suella-braverman-delivers-speech-claiming-uk-could-become-first-islamist-nation-with-nuclear-weapons/

Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate · Jan 29Deranged rant: Suella Braverman delivers speech claiming UK could become ‘first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons’“By heck - we really are swamped with crazies nowadays.”

#UKPolitics #SuellaBraverman #Conservatism

**Flatbush Gardener** @xris@ecoevo.social · Feb 1

Feb 1

Flatbush Gardener @xris@ecoevo.social

#USPol

**Dave Rahardja** @drahardja@sfba.social · Feb 1 *

Feb 1 *

Dave Rahardja @drahardja@sfba.social

Phrases conservatives have used as derogatory terms to try to stifle efforts that dismantle white supremacy:

- Communist
- Pinko
- Socialist
- Bleeding heart
- Liberal
- Politically correct
- Democrat
- Virtue signaling
- Terrorist
- SJW
- Woke
- BLM
- Critical Race Theory
- Antifa
- DEI

More?

#whiteSupremacy #conservatism

**Michael Martinez** @michael@middle-earth.xenite.org · Jan 27

Jan 27

Michael Martinez @michael@middle-earth.xenite.org

[caption id="attachment_14827" align="aligncenter" width="720"] J.R.R. Tolkien is often portrayed as a very conservative thinker. But the views he expressed in his letters were far more liberal than many people given him credit for. And he was very much aware of the social and political issues of his lifetime – as well as thoughtful about them. Here is what we know.[/caption]

Q: Was J.R.R. […]

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/was-j-r-r-tolkien-woke/

A picture of J.R.R. Tolkien in his office under the words 'Was J.R.R. Tolkien Woke?'

#conservatism #fantasy #jrrtolkien

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