Does anyone else here consider themselves a non-conservative Right-Winger?
I support the nuclear family because the evidence supports it, not because it's how it was done in the past. I don't care about maintaining tradition unless evidence shows it to work better than new alternatives. I'm against immigration because I think western culture is better empirically than middle eastern culture and it will be negatively affected in at the short term and probably the long term. I believe in genetic differences between peoples. None of this is out of conservatism, and it's the conservative perspective that damns the right wing to lose EVERY battle it fights, sooner or later.
If there's a surge in conservatism now, it'll still eventually fail. Progress is inexorable, but we can shape whether that progress is left or right leaning. We can't stop change any more than the new awakening in the 19th century saved Christianity. It still ended up dying hard despite the surge in Christian evangelism.
There's never a finishing line, there won't be until humans are extinct.
Justin Myers
Then there's no such thing as progress.
Elijah Cook
Progressive right. Is this like the opposite of progressives?
Like, enacting policies that force cultural or social behaviors but being liberal on economic policies?
Christian Thompson
No, it's progressive in the literal sense of the word. Right wing but with a forward looking outlook, as opposed to a conservative one.
Nicholas James
>forward looking outlook And you think conservatives aren't looking ahead?
Josiah Young
Semantically yes, but it's useful to contrast with conservatism. It's ridiculous that progress and leftism have become entangled and the right self-identifying as conservative doesn't help.
Anthony Diaz
>progress Define progress then, if you can't define the finish line. What does "progressive" mean?
