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Apr 11th 2011, 19:40:59
There are no individuals in Conservatism. They believe what they are told to believe, think what they are told to think, say what they are told to say, and vote as they are told to vote. Despite that, Conservatives are not a monolithic group. They are an alliance of five social groups with separate, often contradictory agendas. The five groups are:
1. The wealthy, who want more wealth and power for themselves and less for everyone else. Their goal is to cripple government and eliminate the middle-class.
2. The economic Conservatives and Libertarians, who have made a bizarre religion out of their "free market" fairy tales. They want to destroy the social safety net and begin the Corporate State, though few of them can foresee the grim society that they would bring into existence.
3. Fundamentalists and Evangelicals, who want to be the censors of fashion, literature, and morals. They feel marginalized and ridiculed - and they have been marginalized and ridiculed.
4. Racists, who want to reintroduce segregation. They don't admit it, but that would be the outcome if they had their way.
5. Lunatics, paranoids, gun-nuts, militia members, and others whose mental problems are expressed in their political attitudes. They are fanatical about their particular political fetish: guns, militias, conspiracy theories, coalitions, Death Panels, whatever.
When elected to office, Conservative politicians serve only the wealthy. They give lip service to the other groups, but in truth they are indifferent to free market economics, Religious Fundamentalism, small town values, racial conflict, or gun laws.
Conservative candidates pretend to each group that they represent its principles. They give different speeches to each group. That is why Conservatives will say some outrageous things to an audience at, say, a gun convention. Then, when a recording is leaked, they have to release mealy-mouthed reinterpretations of what they “really” meant.
All five groups are needed to put together a majority of voters. That is why Conservatives who are not themselves racist will refuse to purge their groups of racist members. Conservatism has created a code language of phrases like "reverse discrimination" so that they can speak and write to each other without saying what they actually mean in plain English.
Similarly, the Conservative movement cannot spurn the social conservatives. They don’t have much money, but they are motivated, they provide a lot of street theater, and they vote with religious devotion.
The lunatic fringe is essential too. They provide a lot of street theater, they are very vocal, and they vote with fanatical devotion.
It is the wealthy who are steering the movement because they provide the money. The other four groups provide votes and street theater.
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