Isn't it time to simply retire the "conservative" label?

[IDemo]

Let's face it - traditional conservatism is so 20th Century (yeah, I know, more like 12th Century). Virtually all major Rightwing politicians and winger-leaning movements now identify much more closely with libertarianism (read: "Teaism").

[HughBeaumont]

1. More like batshit insane-ism.

While Libertarians love to chug them some Reaganomics Kool-Aid, not many believe in the same social policies that the Batshit Insane party tries to force on everyone.

[markpkessinger]

2. Yes. I opt for "regressive" instead! ;) n/t

[stellanoir]

3. the time has long since past

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2637905

[Shiver]

4. My dad's been saying this for years.

He's insisting we replace 'conservative' with 'reactionary'.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. Your father is right on target.

Your father is right on target. What part of Social Security, Medicare, access to legal representation, clean air, clean water, healthy food, and a fighting chance to make better lives for oneself and one's children are these reactionaries actually "conserving"?

[annabanana]

5. "Look for the Anti-Union Label". . (great cartoon)

[Vogon_Glory]

6. Reactionary

I prefer to resurrect the word "reactionary." I think it describes the Radical Right/TEAbagger/"conservative" movement far better than the word conservative.

What the politically-clueless and the politically-asleep members of the media and the potential electorate have failed to realize for the last two decades is that the Radical Right is a radical movement intending to tear down. They want to do away with the New Deal. They want to do away with Medicare. They want to do away with Social Security. They want to end protections for racial minorities. They want to institutionalize fundamentalist Protestant Christianity over other Protestant Christian denominations, the Orthodox Christian Churches, Judaism, and other religions. They want to do away with the idea of the minimum wage. They want to abolish environmental protection. They want to not only outlaw abortion, but to deny women access to birth control.

What in Sheol and Gehenna is so "conservative" about these radical reactionaries?

:argh:

:dem:

[Populist_Prole]

8. Reactionary is the most apt term. By numbers alone the baggers should accept it.

I mean if you are a small bitter minority who doesn't think the majority ( everybody else ) in their party is ideologically pure enough; would it make more sense for the smaller group to split off and try to find more critical mass than to try to get everyone else to change? It's like they're trying to tighten the slack in their clothes lines by moving their house back instead of the pole.

[Exultant Democracy]

9. The pendulum swung hard after the 60's, in the next 10-15 years conservitive will be a dirty word.

[Cleita]

10. The "batshit crazy" label works for me. n/t