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I disagree; egalitarianism is an anti-realist philosophy.
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More likely just classically liberal with some culturally Christian conservative leanings.
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Conservatism is a philosophy, not a party. We are realists, the Left are anti-realists.
I think that's probably accurate. JFK would be seen as an extreme Right-winger now!
I socialize with a lot of Leftists. At this point, Right and Left exist in different worlds.
Choice of media, choice of story of the day (the thing everyone talks about), vocabulary... it's all different.
So there are things that are not strictly "true" which are taken as fact because they are needed to keep up these political tribal identities.
It's odd and unnerving but I think only when the two sides are BOTH extremist do we get actual options.
As far as I can tell, Trump is popular among a range of social classes but also captured the college-educated conservative vote.
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Egalitarianism is the root of the Left; it is an ideology. Conservatism is a folkway, which means we prefer time-proven solutions, which requires measurement by reality not human judgment. This naturally leads to a need for social order on a case-by-case basis anchored in a few general principles instead of One Big Idea.