[tpaine]

Many people incorrectly use "reactionary" to mean "acting in response to some outside stimulus." That's reactive.
"Reactionary" actually has a very narrow meaning; it is a noun or adjective describing a form of looking backward that goes beyond conservatism --
-- (wanting to prevent change and maintain present conditions)
-- to reaction-- wanting to recreate a lost past.
The advocates of restoring Czarist rule in Russia are reactionaries.
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-- Thus, 'reactionary' conservatives could be akin to those americans who see a 'lost past', IE, - the south of slavery & 'states rights', as being a desirable political objective. [minus the slavery, of course]
Such conservatives work not towards constitutional restoration, but to recreating the mythical lost cause, -- that of the 'majority' ruled democratic state. -- A tyranny of the majority, not a constitutional free republic.
40 tpaine


You mean like the lost past of an America that adhered to the Constitution? Just kidding, I am starting to get the point.
Although, to a real socialist, I believe that attempting to regain a Constitutional America might be viewed as reactionary.
41 -SC-

That's the point that is so hard to get across... - States rights majority rule democracy; --- is just a disguised form of socialism.
Some misguided conservatives, who support some aspect of 'states rights' because it fits their single issue cause, don't realize how reactionary, - to our constitution, - their goals can be.

[Sam Cree]

"States rights majority rule democracy; --- is just a disguised form of socialism. Some misguided conservatives, who support some aspect of 'states rights' because it fits their single issue cause, don't realize how reactionary, - to our constitution, - their goals can be."

I think I agree with you, since democracy is clearly compatible with both socialism and tyranny, but I wouldn't mind if you give an example of "states rights majority rule democracy."