Exactly - so called "conservatives" are actually retrogressives, they want to turn society back to a time of women being bare foot and pregnant in the kitchen, and the Church having a monopoly on culture.
OTOH, so called "liberals" are often conservative, they want to hold onto to hard-won victories of the past: equal pay for women, access to abortion, freedom to express one's opinion (eg about Israel), This is confounded in Australia by the so called "Liberal" party is actually "conservative", ie increasingly retrogressive. They promised to chuck out what the other side did, eg the abolition of the carbon tax when the Liberal party gained power in 2013. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
