I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?

  • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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    1 year ago

    It also doesn’t help that the view of what Americans have on what is conservative and what Europe views as conservative is very different. American politics lean right by default, so when people tend to refer to conservatism in the US it is almost always referring to the far-right. If Joe Biden was a politician nearly anywhere in Western Europe, he would likely be seen at the very least as an economic conservative.

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      1 year ago

      Joe Biden would probably be one of the more right wing members in the liberal party here (which is a right wing party). The US definitions of liberal and conservative are totally out of touch with the actual philosophical/ideological underpinnings of those terms.

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      1 year ago

      then it must be specified if we already are aware that people will assume American conservative when they hear the word conservative. though, it’s unlikely OP meant anything other than American conservatism, see buzz-words like “liberal echo chamber”