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- Conservatism has become more reasonable https://thomasprosser.substack.com/p/how-conservatism-became-more-reasonable 3 comments
- Opinion: America is becoming less religious. That won’t demolish conservatism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/02/america-is-becoming-more-secular-that-doesnt-mean-conservatives-are-doomed/ 97 comments politics
- Liberal MP Kevin Andrews, the former defence minister known for his social conservatism and the longest-serving member of Federal Parliament, has become the first federal Liberal since 1990 to be unseated in a party preselection in Victoria. - Australia https://www.smh.com.au/national/kevin-andrews-toppled-in-preselection-battle-for-menzies-20210130-p56y2h.html 5 comments worldnews
- Conservative Riots: How U.S. Conservatism makes ordinary Americans become extremists - NZ Herald https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/us-capitol-riots-how-ordinary-americans-became-extremists/bx54wgkij2th4k7emyrgxt45di/ 92 comments worldnews
- Conservatism has become a racket, and Trump is the grifter in chief https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/13/conservatism-has-become-racket-trump-is-grifter-chief/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c214399114b4 3 comments politics
- Conservatism has become a racket, and Trump is the grifter in chief https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/13/conservatism-has-become-racket-trump-is-grifter-chief/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2ede8ec7b1ae 5 comments politics
- Conservatism has become a racket, and Trump is the grifter in chief https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/13/conservatism-has-become-racket-trump-is-grifter-chief/?utm_term=.f06b237ebc00 125 comments politics
- If this is what conservatism has become, count me out https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-this-is-what-conservatism-has-become-count-me-out/2018/02/25/853685c6-19bd-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.cf5a6542c15d 14 comments politics
- If this is what conservatism has become, count me out https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-this-is-what-conservatism-has-become-count-me-out/2018/02/25/853685c6-19bd-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.0169f435c75c 56 comments politics
- If this is what conservatism has become, count me out https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-this-is-what-conservatism-has-become-count-me-out/2018/02/25/853685c6-19bd-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.45e4a4fd64dd 2 comments politics
- If this is what conservatism has become, count me out https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-this-is-what-conservatism-has-become-count-me-out/2018/02/25/853685c6-19bd-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.e23c8d3365c6 5 comments politics
- If this is what conservatism has become, count me out https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-this-is-what-conservatism-has-become-count-me-out/2018/02/25/853685c6-19bd-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.f5f2088b3e67 303 comments politics
- What has become of conservatism? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/27/what-has-become-of-conservatism-trump-farage-le-pen-brexit?cmp=share_btn_tw 55 comments politics
- What has become of conservatism? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/27/what-has-become-of-conservatism-trump-farage-le-pen-brexit?cmp=share_androidapp_reddit_is_fun 3 comments europe
- The Alt-Right vs. Mainstream Conservatism: How a fringe online movement is becoming legitimated through Donald Trump's campaign. http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-alt-right-vs.-mainstream-conservatism/article/2003997 6 comments politics
- " misinformed, suggestible voters becomes a vehicle for undisclosed interests." according to Psychological Science paper linking right-wing conservatism to diminished cognitive ability http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/02/07/scientific-paper-conservatives-are-stoopid-so-there/ 6 comments politics
- The sultanate of Brunei this week becomes the first East Asian country to introduce Islamic criminal law, the latest example of a deepening religious conservatism that has also taken root in parts of neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/04/29/uk-brunei-sharia-idukkbn0df1u320140429 3 comments worldnews
- Paul Krugman: "Modern conservatism has become a sort of cult, very much given to conspiracy theorizing when confronted with inconvenient facts." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/opinion/krugman-the-wonk-gap.html?ref=paulkrugman&_r=0 390 comments politics
- Krugrman- The Wonk Gap. "Modern conservatism has become a sort of cult, very much given to conspiracy theorizing when confronted with inconvenient facts." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/opinion/krugman-the-wonk-gap.html?_r=1& 203 comments politics
- It is a conservatism like that espoused by...the Republicans that has contributed to this country becoming more and more every day a fascist police state. It is a conservatism like that espoused by...the Republicans that diminishes freedom. http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance335.html 3 comments politics
- Dione: "American conservatism is becoming something very different from what it once was. Yet this transformation is happening by stealth because moderates are too afraid to acknowledge what all their senses tell them." http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-rights-stealthy-coup/2012/04/01/giqazlbjps_story.html 234 comments politics
- Krugman: "The key to understanding this, I’d suggest, is that movement conservatism has become a closed, inward-looking universe in which you get points not by sounding reasonable to uncommitted outsiders......but by outdoing your fellow movement members in zeal." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/say-anything/ 64 comments politics
- "He has shamelessly become the opposite of what he said he would be. This former defender of the constitution and civil liberties has effectively silenced the anti-war left, legitimized neo-conservatism, and maintained his predecessors security-state policies" - Judge Napolitano http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4622280/the-secret-government/?playlist_id=87185 534 comments politics
- How Ayn Rand/Glenn Beck -- the glorifiers of selfishness, cruelty, and the lions eating the weak -- have become the dominant players of modern day conservatism, OR, The Philosophy of Me (First and Only) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/the-philosophy-of-me-firs_b_478685.html 42 comments reddit.com
- How Ayn Rand/Glenn Beck -- the glorifiers of selfishness, cruelty, and the lions eating the weak -- have become the dominant players of modern day conservatism, OR, The Philosophy of Me (First and Only) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/the-philosophy-of-me-firs_b_478685.html 3 comments politics
- Survey experiments show that "affluent Americans’ desire for social status strongly predicts their level of economic conservatism." When affluent Americans are randomly assigned to experience social media feeds that highlight upper-class lifestyles, they become more economically conservative. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/desire-for-social-status-and-economic-conservatism-among-affluent-americans/8cef13934a2241b4c22139296a596271 3 comments science
- The Decline and Fall of Tucker Carlson - 'Carlson used to be a brilliant writer. He's now a racist demagogue. He's a story in one person of how degenerate and disgusting much of American "conservatism" has become.' http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/the-decline-and-fall-of-tucker-carlson.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_afternoon&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_afternoon&utm_term=cheat%20sheet 11 comments politics
- Light Bulb Conservatism -- Republicans have been complaining about taxes, the economy and jobs day and night, but strangely light bulbs has become a hot issue for them instead of job creation. http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/light-bulb-conservatism 4 comments politics
- Studies reveal that conservatism is promoted when people rely on "Low-Effort" thinking: When effortful, deliberate responding is disrupted or disengaged, thought processes become quick and efficient; these conditions promote conservative ideology...because its concepts are easier to process http://www.politicususa.com/studies-show-political-conservatism-promoted-people-rely-low-effort-thinking.html 7 comments science
- Trump’s takeover of conservatism is complete: conservatism was an ideology. By this year’s conference, conservatism had become a collection of grievances. It had become Trumpism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-takeover-of-conservatism-is-complete/2017/02/24/8d76a768-fadb-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html 28 comments politics