When feudalism was the old way, and human rights and freedoms were new, they were literally conserving the old way. The name was technically true.

Anyway, my point: Don’t let enemies commandeer language with their newspeak where nothing means anymore what it apparently means and used to mean. If we agree to call them conservatives now, some literal-minded centrists (or whatever they are) will be fooled into voting them. We should repeat “that name is a lie, their actions are alt-right authoritarian”. It’s a mistake to go along with the lie and write on a map “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” or “Gulf of America”.

Do we have a technical term for “fuck you, I’ve got mine”? Some opposite of socialism? Selfish?

Calling alt-right authoritarian regressives/reactionaries “conservatives” bothers me. It’s like “Damn those democracies and republics, like North Korea”, and “Nazis were nationalists and socialists - it’s in the name”.

Conservatism is being wary of change and sticking to what works. Like not fucking up the climate.

Leadership: What is important, what redundant projects should be joined or axed and their developers merged.