How Do We Revive Conservativism?

You don't. Why would you want to conserve a 10-years-ago version of the same liberal social order we have today?
Instead, you either go hard right and wear that brown uniform with pride, or you propose something entirely new like 'restorationism' and reject all the liberal values that brought us to the point we're at now. Reject egalitarianism, reject the idea of universal convergence, reject all forms of women's suffrage, reject the acceptance of all mental illnesses currently united under the alphabet umbrella and seek to shape society into something that is - unlike what we have now - functional and sustainable.
 
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Conservatism as a movement won't be revived in my opinion, nor should it. I think we need a different kind of movement. Stop just saying no to the left, it's time for the right to pull back. They want to impose gun control, then repeal the NFA. They want to impose CRT in schools, teach kids the evils of communism instead. They want you blackpilled and isol.ated, it's time to talk to people, because it isn't just you that's sick of this mess.
 
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Not a conservative by any means (I'm all over chart depending on topic, political independent), but I think if you want to stay relevant, you're going to have to embrace all of those southern invaders.

Beaners tend to be pretty religious (usually Catholic) and agree with conservatives on many key parts of their platform, if you'd make some room in your tent for them it would make a big difference come election time.
 
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You don't.

You reframe what it means to be progressive.
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Localism is one future pathway IMO.

As mentioned before, the issue with Conservatism's idea of conservation is that everything inevitably changes, even unintentionally, and so what should be preserved (perceived American virtues and way of life) and what actually is seen on the ground (unhealthy & atomized lifestyles, strip malls & suburban wastelands, car dependency, corpo-worship) no longer have much in common.

This is the simple nature of culture and cultural drift, in that cultures will always be shifting through an active Ship of Thesus process as the millions of 'planks' that form a culture are replaced over time.

That's why Conservatives can be seen as out-of-touch and antiquated in trying to preserve a degraded reality, while also being trapped in Liberalism's sovereign territory as the latter are the ones largely defining the new words & movements nowadays.

Fundamentally, Conservatism needs to transform itself into a movement willing to progress on its own terms, and project its own vision of the future, rather than what's already there.
 
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To be quite frank conservatism needs to embrace reactionary attitudes again. But it won't happen as long as conservative Inc drones on about how they will fight back before cucking out and saying now hold on don't be extremist, before saying they're the original thought leaders, before long they're bargaining with the opposition before finally accepting the premise of the other side and eventually saying we were always on the side of X.

To put this into example conservatives in 1996 it's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve we're against gay marriage. 2004 we're against gay marriage but you shouldn't be homophobic. 2012 were against gay marriage but we're in favor of civil unions. 2018 Republicans have always been for the civil rights of LGBTQ people. 2024 actually democrats are the real homophobes.

America can't continually push economically right and culturally left forever. Neoliberalism has done more damage to America's culture and real term economy.
 
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Conservatism is dead Neo-cons killed it. A new just plain liberty movement needs to happen. Conservatives became such hypocrites they'll never regain popularity again. I was a liberal out of high school and early on in college. Bush and the Iraq war and the religious right were pretty much what the modern left are today. Authoritarians in the name of woke-ism or authoritarians in the name of christian morals there is no difference. You have communist subversion going on in every major American institution today. It is a woke cult. Much like Orwell wrote in 1984 the communist know the way to power is to capture the minds of the youth and they'll capture the future. Culture is under full communist subversion. With 90% of civil discourse happening online and social media monoplies controlling all of it, its a uphill struggle for anything to break through the authoritarian cult zeitgeist. Liberty minded people need to get into tech all the way down to server hosting and broadband companies and then work out from there. Amazon controls like 70% of web services, google controls who knows how much and on and on it goes. I personally have no hope of it happening. I'm bugging out of society america is 1000% on track to be a communist-corporate dystopia.
 
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Stop shilling for Israel
Kick out illegals
Don't stoop to leftoids "they're the REAAAL RAYCIS" instead put them against a wall and line up your sights.
Pee before you poop
 
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Kick the evangelicals out. The religious right might not have much power but the evangelical right still lives rent-free in some peoples' heads. Therefore, kick out all the retards who insist conservatism equals some sort of theocratic nightmare where all you hear is bullshit about overturning Roe v. Wade and how the country should only have God-fearing Christians in it or something.

People insistent that the right is still "just a bunch of fundies" even though it's like a select handful now is what turned me off labeling myself anything at this point.
 
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Kick the evangelicals out. The religious right might not have much power but the evangelical right still lives rent-free in some peoples' heads. Therefore, kick out all the retards who insist conservatism equals some sort of theocratic nightmare where all you hear is bullshit about overturning Roe v. Wade and how the country should only have God-fearing Christians in it or something.

People insistent that the right is still "just a bunch of fundies" even though it's like a select handful now is what turned me off labeling myself anything at this point.
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An excellent point made was that Evangelicals expended a significant amount of the Conservatives' political and cultural power during the 90s-early 00s on useless hand-wringing over things like Rock music, Harry Potter, and violent vidya games, so that by the point when serious threats or doctrinal issues arose, the public had already gotten used to tuning them out.

The real shame is that the one thing they got right was the slippery slope warnings.
 
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GHTD said:
Kick the evangelicals out. The religious right might not have much power but the evangelical right still lives rent-free in some peoples' heads. Therefore, kick out all the retards who insist conservatism equals some sort of theocratic nightmare where all you hear is bullshit about overturning Roe v. Wade and how the country should only have God-fearing Christians in it or something.

People insistent that the right is still "just a bunch of fundies" even though it's like a select handful now is what turned me off labeling myself anything at this point.
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The evangelicals have been the most loyal, sincere, and politically effective “conservatives” in the past fifty years.

If not for them there would have been no “conservative” movement and the US would be as pozzed as say the UK or even worse.

Of course they stirred up a lot of opposition and hysteria about some sort of dominionist tyranny that motivated liberals, and people have plenty of axe grinding based attitudes(e.g. my mommy and daddy didn’t let me read Harry Potter so I hate them!).

Get rid of them and the left will just push on full steam ahead without even a speedbump.
 
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