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For sure. These terms have changed meanings several times throughout history. To be a “progressive” in the 20th century, you’d have been a support of eugenics, IQ testing, segregation in many ways, compulsory sterilization (which was invented here in the US, the Nazis got a lot of their ideas from us; we were the original pioneers of that shit; Hitler wrote a letter to Madison Grant telling him he referred to “The Passing of the Great Race” as his “Bible.”), all sorts of things which are now almost by default, associated with radical “right-wing” thought. Historically it was exactly the other way around. People should read up on the history of a very small and unknown town in New York called Cold Spring Harbor, and see just how many “progressive” intellectuals were associated with a lot of thought the liberals of today wouldn’t want to own one single iota of.
What people might call a “Bay Arean conservative,” is a “Midwestern libtard,” so technically I’m both, and vice versa. I’d much rather prefer in serious discussions to try and shed labels, because it obscures the nuances that should be captured between people’s beliefs that allow them to expose themselves to a broader landscape of respectable positions worthy of discussion. If I tell someone here “I’m a conservative,” they automatically think I’m a Republican or a typical low information Trump voter.
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