I have had it with the word ‘conservative’....there is no such word now...all those RINOs in our government kept saying they were conservative, and what do we get? NOTHING, at least if you vote RAT you know what your getting...
In addition to the corruption of which you speak, there is another, fundamental reason to dislike being called “conservative.”At the start of the Twentieth Century the term "liberal" meant the same in America as it still does in the rest of the world - essentially, what is called "conservatism" in American Newspeak. Of course we "American Conservatives" are not the ones who oppose development and liberty, so in that sense we are not conservative at all. We actually are liberals.
But in America, "liberalism" was given its American Newspeak - essentially inverted - meaning in the 1920s (source: Safire's New Political Dictionary). The fact that the American socialists have acquired a word to exploit is bad enough; the real disaster is that we do not now have a word which truly descriptive of our own political perspective. We only have the smear words which the socialists have assigned to us.
And make no mistake, in America "conservative" is inherently a negative connotation - we know that just as surely as we know that every American marketer loves to boldly proclaim that whatever product he is flogging is NEW!
So along with a distrust of “conservatism” as a label for us, and of “liberal” as a label for socialists, I further challenge the use of “progressive” by socialists. After all, the framers of the Constitution enshrined progress as a goal of the US government:
So the Constitution, and American “conservatives,” promote liberty - the freedom to do different things, and do the same thing in different ways - and progress of, by, and for the American people. The socialist offers progress of, by, and an illegitimate government class. And calls socialism “liberal” and “progressive."
- Article 1 Section 8.:
- The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .