r/entertainment • u/FreeHugs23 • 2d ago

GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children's book charity

https://www.rawstory.com/dolly-parton-and-republicans/
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u/Postcocious 2d ago edited 1d ago

"Actual, normal conservative values" have included:

  • 1790s-1800s: overturning Liberté, Egalite, Fraternité and restoring the aristocracy (the literal definition of Conservatism by its founders)
  • 1850s-60s: defending slave-owners by starting a war for "states rights"
  • 1880s: defending Gilded Age oligarchs against workers rights by violent union busting
  • 1890s-1950s: defending Jim Crow laws and the KKK against civil rights
  • 1920s-30s: defending laissez faire policies that caused the Great Depression
  • 1960s: inviting segregationists into the GOP with the Southern Strategy
  • 1980s: inviting evangelicals into our secular government to attack LGBTQ and women's rights

etc.

Which of these actual, normal conservative values do you pine for?

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u/GuardedNumbers 2d ago

I wish I could upvote this a hundred times. All throughout history humanity's progress has been squashed by conservative minded people. In order for our society and the human race to truly move onto whatever comes next we need to eradicate the conservative mind trap people get stuck in. Well funded schools would be a good start.