Also the fact that there is no competing ideology.
I mean, there is, but true, hard-line nationalist conservatism is so far outside the Overton Window that if any of us speak out in any true public forum, people start gasping, fainting, and going rabidly bonkers.
Also the fact that there is no competing ideology. Conservatism is just progressivism 20 years ago.
In theory, it is a competing belief system, namely "stick with what works" and the wisdom of the ages. Unfortunately, the right has a tendency to accept the status quo even if it does not work.
If you want a vacuous ideology, it's progressivism. They're the mirror image of conservatism: where conservatives want things to stay the same, they want "change" - even change for the worse. The only thing that has been constant since the beginning of progressivism is that it accepts ideas that have novelty. That's it.
Also the fact that there is no competing ideology. Conservatism is just progressivism 20 years ago.
Back when progressivism moved over the course of hundreds of years it wasn't noticeable.
I mean, there is, but true, hard-line nationalist conservatism is so far outside the Overton Window that if any of us speak out in any true public forum, people start gasping, fainting, and going rabidly bonkers.
In theory, it is a competing belief system, namely "stick with what works" and the wisdom of the ages. Unfortunately, the right has a tendency to accept the status quo even if it does not work.
If you want a vacuous ideology, it's progressivism. They're the mirror image of conservatism: where conservatives want things to stay the same, they want "change" - even change for the worse. The only thing that has been constant since the beginning of progressivism is that it accepts ideas that have novelty. That's it.