jbrownson0831
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See how stupid the Dims are? They created all these things they pretend to be against....slavery, fascism, the KKK....As he was embraced by most Italians at the time. But even though Mussolini restored the Italian monarchy and gave lip service to the Roman Catholic Church, he was not a conservative. He was a revolutionary "progressive."
Nor was Hitler a "conservative." His goal was to end the conservative institutions in Germany and centralize all power to the state. He even snubbed the efforts of the conservative party to join the Nazis against the Communists.
Hitler felt nothing short of disgust for the conservative military officers in Germany, the prior nobility, and he hated and oppressed the Christian church. His deputy Himmler demanded those in the elite SS to give up Christian practices, and Christian leaders were often put in concentration camps. Hitler's vision was actually a Neo-Pagan socialist Germany.
If the truth be known, Conservatives are actually the antithesis of the original fascists and their ideology. We believe in checks on government power, whether in terms of checks among branches and state vs. federal, or checks between competing parties. We also want to maintain and support non-government institutions like the church, family, and social organizations, and prevent an obstructive and intrusive government from interfering in local affairs.
We tend to inherently distrust power in the hands of any individual, group of individuals, or party. Conservatives by definition seek to further individual freedoms that fascists hate and seek to end: Freedoms like free speech, the individual right to bear arms, the individual rights of families in education, and the importance of the church.
So get your ideologies straight.