The status quo is the past.

Reactionary is a better name for the movement though; they want to simp for their masters: the regressive regime where they can play at “owning the left” while bolstering the rent-seeking owner class.

The only genuine stance conservatives have is that society should be hierarchical. It’s financially driven by wealthy who want to be essentially an aristocratic class, and since that’s a bitch of a sell, they focus on who’s lower than the average person instead of who’s higher, but the legislative result is always the same, more for the capitalist class. Everything else is window dressing, distractions, and whatever concessions they feel obligated to make.

Conservative implies that you are maintaining the status quo.

No, Conservatism protects the unaccountable privilege of the upper class. That’s the only status quo they maintain. They’ll tear down anything else, no matter how long it’s existed. And it has been that way since the term “conservative” was coined. It was a reaction against Enlightenment ideas that rule of law should apply to everyone, and that those holding positions of power should be appointed by merit and held accountable to the people. It has always favored sinecures, nepotism, royally granted monopolies, bribery and obfuscated ownership.

The great British politician Tony Benn distilled five questions that should be asked of those in power in order to maintain a functioning democracy:

• What power have you got?
• Where did you get it from?
• In whose interest do you exercise it?
• To whom are you accountable?
• How can we get rid of you?

You will notice that conservatives will always react aggressively when asked any of these questions.

Conservatism has always been shit like this. The idea that it just means “maintaining the status quo” is a lie they tell to whitewash it.

Maintaining what status quo?

Don’t worry! History has an answer! It’s the divine right of kings!

Mine is nitrous and I don’t understand why we don’t use it

There’s a helmet for that!

The guillotine looks less humane when we consider those executed looking around, blinking, and responding to external stimuli for a minute afterward.

Killing people in cold blood is not humane no matter how you do it.

I don’t know about that last part. The idea of his torture finally getting him the views he craves feels somehow poetic.

Or we can move past the American Empire which has protected the Epstein class, and not just protected but bent over backwards for. Which has raped the world of its resources, poisoned its own citizens by way of greed, and enslaved the global south (but also the North too, just slightly less hard). We can move past a white supremacist, capital worshipping society intent of backing up its INCREDIBLY short sighted goals and obsession for the status quo, with the largest military the world has seen.

I can keep going, but I hope you get the point.

We can dream, explore, imagine, and wade through the muck of this dying and deadly system, to make something new that works for us all. We need to, it’s not an option. The return to “normalcy” that you paint out is far less intolerable for him (even in a jail cell), than it is for the working class, the dying species, the collapsing oceans, and the generations not born yet.

I don’t know about other people but I’m shooting for a world way past a return to imperial neoliberalism, which ironically wouldn’t even last long with the collapsing environment and societies around us.

I agree with everything except the money and passport thing. No living person is supposed to be on our money. Also partisan passports seem tacky.

There are war criminal on both party, although the republicans has more

I’d say the Gaddafi approach is closer to what he deserves.

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