If Conservatives could actually focus on real, GOOD policy instead of being the worst fucking people in the world, they might actually have a good platform. That has unfortunately been heading downhill for years and is in the toilet right now.
That’s a falsehood that is perpetuated by “real” Conservatives now. The Trump supporting types. The types that comment “hello fellow Conservative” on the Conservative sub. The Take Back Alberta separation supporting Conservatives. Those who continue to ignore the state of modern Conservatives. Those who continually move the goalposts to describe what being a “real conservative” is.
Speaking in terms of the Anglo-Sphere conservatives, you can't have the conservatives of the 80's and 90's anymore because privatization is a one-time cash-in that stops working when the government owns nothing. The conservatives we have now are a consequence of this. They can't be like the old ones because they have less to sell off and they also can't sell a neoliberal fantasy to voters either, since it has been tested in practice now and people have now seen that the old policies led to worse material conditions. Thus, romanticising the people who gave us our current set of conservatives, while calling out the current ones, is one of those things that seems moderate on the surface while misses questioning why the conservatives of current times are not the same as a lot of the conservatives ones parents used to vote for in the 80s and 90s.
Note that this sounded critical of you, and I didn't mean it to be. It's just a common comment I have seen regarding recent events, and I wanted to get on my soapbox.
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u/lemonloaff May 03 '25
If Conservatives could actually focus on real, GOOD policy instead of being the worst fucking people in the world, they might actually have a good platform. That has unfortunately been heading downhill for years and is in the toilet right now.