Conservatism at its heart is fundamentally focused on determining how other people do not belong to your “in” group and do not deserve the same privileges and rights as you do.
Definitely not unique to conservativism. I think that’s just a facet of humanity. Modern day progressivism is infamous for shooting itself in the foot with purity tests.
You misunderstand. People do have a strong tendency to do that, yes. Conservativism is about that, it enshrines that. You can have leftism without infighting. You can have LGBTQ+ without radical exclusion. You cannot have conservativism without exclusion of outgroups.
That’s an excellent point, you’re totally right. I just did a “both sides”. There’s a massive difference between the two, and I shouldn’t have equated them.
Definitely not unique to conservativism. I think that’s just a facet of humanity. Modern day progressivism is infamous for shooting itself in the foot with purity tests.
You misunderstand. People do have a strong tendency to do that, yes. Conservativism is about that, it enshrines that. You can have leftism without infighting. You can have LGBTQ+ without radical exclusion. You cannot have conservativism without exclusion of outgroups.
That’s an excellent point, you’re totally right. I just did a “both sides”. There’s a massive difference between the two, and I shouldn’t have equated them.