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Political conservatism increasingly linked to generalized prejudice in the United States

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- Birtherism gave Trunk national media attention over a prolonged period, leading to…what the US has now as a federal government
- He didn't do anything besides tap into all the bigoted lies that white Americans have been told over the course of their lives - a combination of the racism that is imbued in most of them from birth and the mangled Zionistic, Judeo-Christian prosperity crap that brings a deluded sense of duty, purpose and certainty to tens of millions of Americans. It's very easy to blame Trump but he only built on existing mythological structures.
- What else would they be trying to preserve? Notice they never tried to preserve strong unions, or high taxes for the rich.
tl;dr: US conservatives have been generally racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic, and those traits have become increasingly stronger in the past decade or so.
That’s because the Overton window has shifted.
In most of the Western world, mainstream Democrats (neoliberals etc) align with the far right political groups.
Generalized prejudice is a minor subset of that group, except where it spans the political landscape.
- I always hear this praise from people who don't live in that part of the world and hear something else from those who do/have.
  What they have done with tiny populations is commendable but has Norway done a better job of managing its resources than the UAE or Qatar or other nations with large petrochemical reserves and tiny populations?
Calling this "conservatism" is already a fig leaf.
- How prejudiced /s
  
  How presumptuous /s
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