The textbook definition of the political spectrum has anarchy on the right and totalitarianism on the left. One group bastardizing the term does not change the meaning.
Textbook you say? perhaps by some liberal Leftist professor...
you are correct ...your group bastardizing the meaning does not actually change the definition. Conservatives are those pesky people who will not choose an extremist/unrealistic POV, but instead choose to exist in a state of reasonable balance where we know we need a government for some things but we also know we can't trust them.
Leftist by NATURE.are a non-linear coalition of disparate nonsense ideals that do not function (i.e. Communism, Socialism, Anarchy, Trans-, Islam, etc.) clustering together for support against a successful majority. This is for the most part de facto the case since as soon as that successful majority is overthrown by one of the nonsense groups, the whole thing collapses and eventually ceases to exist (vis-a-vis Venezuela).
And, by the way, one of the ear-marks of a Leftist/nonsense person or ideal is the delusion of theory over reality even to the point of self-destruction. For example, claiming Islamaphobia in the face of Islamic pedophile rape-gangs, or globalism and open borders despite Coronavirus and Chinese domination, or even say, a linear spectrum theory of politics in spite of clear evidence to the contrary and no evidence in support.
EDIT: I don't think you are a liberal or Democrat shill honestly. I do think you may have been exposed to a lot of their group think and maybe influenced some by it.
Defining who we are with a negative slant or spin is a standard Leftist tactic; e.g. citizen wants border protection and resents illegal immigrants taking jobs; he is concerned about his own prosperity and well-being and that of his friends and family. Leftist comes along ambushes him in the act of expressing that negativity and asserts that "Denying <Race X>[Mexican, Chinese, Arab, etc..] the same opportunity for a good life that you have is racist! So you are a racist!". Citizen is caught off guard and blindsided, even made to feel bad and question his own actions.
Truth: there is nothing wrong or bad about putting yourself and family first; or you friends, or your neighbors, or your city, or your state, or your country; it is quite sensible, Just, and even fair. It is unnatural, unfair, and unJust to expect you to pay for, provide for, enrich, support, or care for strangers (people you have no obligation to). But now because of deceitful practices and manipulation by Leftists you have a good person questioning themselves and what is right.
There is a clear line between helping yourself and harming others. This is why MAGA is not racist or bad in any way. Leftists are always trying to blur this line in any way they can; like grouping us with people we have no association with. Such as taking supporters of Constitutional Rights, Limited Government, and Individual Freedom and extrapolating that to a non-sense degree that becomes bad (otherwise known as Straw-Man Propaganda); such as, 1st Amendment (religion and speech) to bigotry and racism, 2nd Amendment (arms, empowerment,self-defense) to violent sedition, anarchy, and crime, Limited Government to No Government, Individual Freedom to Social Chaos.
Conservatives and Conservatism has no connection to Anarchy, Sedition, or Crime; never has. So why let them put that on you? Every Anarchist I have ever known is Left-leaning. It was the Southern Democrats that supported slavery and tried to secede over it. The "alt-right", neo-nazis, white-supremacists all align with the KKK and its Democrat roots. So what if the Left has reached a point where they no longer want the KKK in their coalition of malcontents! How exactly does that automatically mean they join us? or that we have to take them on the Right? We don't want them! We have never wanted them! We have nothing ideologically in common with them.
If you walk-the-walk, then talk-the-talk; don't be an advertisement for the Leftist POV and don't blame others when they bamboozle you into one of their re-definition schemes.
Like ANTIFA? Nope! Sorry, Anarchy IS NOT a Far-Right position. Alllllllllllllllllllll Leftists!
in fact, the only people who make that argument are Leftist shills trying to make 2nd Amendment supporters into extremists.
...so why are you saying it?
The textbook definition of the political spectrum has anarchy on the right and totalitarianism on the left. One group bastardizing the term does not change the meaning.
Textbook you say? perhaps by some liberal Leftist professor...
you are correct ...your group bastardizing the meaning does not actually change the definition. Conservatives are those pesky people who will not choose an extremist/unrealistic POV, but instead choose to exist in a state of reasonable balance where we know we need a government for some things but we also know we can't trust them.
Leftist by NATURE.are a non-linear coalition of disparate nonsense ideals that do not function (i.e. Communism, Socialism, Anarchy, Trans-, Islam, etc.) clustering together for support against a successful majority. This is for the most part de facto the case since as soon as that successful majority is overthrown by one of the nonsense groups, the whole thing collapses and eventually ceases to exist (vis-a-vis Venezuela).
And, by the way, one of the ear-marks of a Leftist/nonsense person or ideal is the delusion of theory over reality even to the point of self-destruction. For example, claiming Islamaphobia in the face of Islamic pedophile rape-gangs, or globalism and open borders despite Coronavirus and Chinese domination, or even say, a linear spectrum theory of politics in spite of clear evidence to the contrary and no evidence in support.
EDIT: I don't think you are a liberal or Democrat shill honestly. I do think you may have been exposed to a lot of their group think and maybe influenced some by it.
Defining who we are with a negative slant or spin is a standard Leftist tactic; e.g. citizen wants border protection and resents illegal immigrants taking jobs; he is concerned about his own prosperity and well-being and that of his friends and family. Leftist comes along ambushes him in the act of expressing that negativity and asserts that "Denying <Race X>[Mexican, Chinese, Arab, etc..] the same opportunity for a good life that you have is racist! So you are a racist!". Citizen is caught off guard and blindsided, even made to feel bad and question his own actions.
Truth: there is nothing wrong or bad about putting yourself and family first; or you friends, or your neighbors, or your city, or your state, or your country; it is quite sensible, Just, and even fair. It is unnatural, unfair, and unJust to expect you to pay for, provide for, enrich, support, or care for strangers (people you have no obligation to). But now because of deceitful practices and manipulation by Leftists you have a good person questioning themselves and what is right.
There is a clear line between helping yourself and harming others. This is why MAGA is not racist or bad in any way. Leftists are always trying to blur this line in any way they can; like grouping us with people we have no association with. Such as taking supporters of Constitutional Rights, Limited Government, and Individual Freedom and extrapolating that to a non-sense degree that becomes bad (otherwise known as Straw-Man Propaganda); such as, 1st Amendment (religion and speech) to bigotry and racism, 2nd Amendment (arms, empowerment,self-defense) to violent sedition, anarchy, and crime, Limited Government to No Government, Individual Freedom to Social Chaos.
Conservatives and Conservatism has no connection to Anarchy, Sedition, or Crime; never has. So why let them put that on you? Every Anarchist I have ever known is Left-leaning. It was the Southern Democrats that supported slavery and tried to secede over it. The "alt-right", neo-nazis, white-supremacists all align with the KKK and its Democrat roots. So what if the Left has reached a point where they no longer want the KKK in their coalition of malcontents! How exactly does that automatically mean they join us? or that we have to take them on the Right? We don't want them! We have never wanted them! We have nothing ideologically in common with them.
If you walk-the-walk, then talk-the-talk; don't be an advertisement for the Leftist POV and don't blame others when they bamboozle you into one of their re-definition schemes.