Friday, October 16, 2026
“NAZIS”(?) for the Status Quo
It should be beyond obvious but, conservatism’s political stance is primarily to conserve — to basically maintain things as they are. In practice, conservatives have gone along with reasonable change to things in need of improvement but have left the foundations of society intact. Conservatives are not “Nazis” or “fascists. Those are offshoots of socialism -- centralized state control.
One can argue against conservatism if one is on the bandwagon for radical change. In our current state of affairs, those opposed to traditional standards act as if respect for institutions and policies as they are is somehow embarking upon a terrible path of danger and oppression. Keeping things basically as they are is labeled radical and extreme.
Viewing daily comments and observations in media finds passionate complaint and rage over the idea that maintaining a secure border and insuring the safety of America’s citizens is somehow worthy of contempt. More than a few leftist radicals, icluding many running for office, have openly suggested that supporters of the current president, MAGA, and mundane conservative values should be subject to coercive legal action, prison, and in the more deranged threats , killed.
A political pendulum at relative rest has no need for such turmoil. The revolutionaries’ calls for radical change is nothing more than a pathological grasp for power. Hardly a sane response to those who merely wish to maintain the status quo and leave to future generations the standards that have served us well.
