Conservatism is an ideology based on the idea of family-first policies, nationalism and religious values. You might as well claim that anarchism is anything that creates chaos or that liberalism is anything that makes you free. You have misunderstood what the word means in a political context.
What is even funnier to me is that it lists the Swedish party Liberalerna as a “Conservative Liberal” party. That party has voted 100% (not 99% or 98%, exactly identical) to Moderaterna, a conservative party, during this latest four-year period. Nobody is going to vote for them in the upcoming election because they are a fundamentally unnecessary party that just does whatever Moderaterna tells them to do.
Big parties in FPTP and other non-proportional systems have people from all over the political spectrum.
Big parties in MMP and other proportional systems have ideologies and stick to their ideologies.
Bernie Sanders would never be in the same party as Joe Biden in a proportionally representative democracy.
“Conservative liberalism” is an oxymoron. Centre to centre-right means social liberalism and an acceptance/approval of the welfare state.
Conservatism of any kind is right to far-right.
Me: am cautiously and very slightly optimistic while being aware of the fact that Magyar has a lot of similarities to Orban, and that Orban accepts the outcome of the election.
You: You’ve been duped! He’s Orban’s chosen siccessor and you are fully unaware of this!
Like, come on, man. Have some amount of hope in the betterment of the world. I’m not saying that progress under Magyar is a guarantee. I’m saying there is a possibility.
On the one hand, his ideology is more or less identical to Orban’s (he used to be a Fidesz party member until two tears ago).
On the other hand, he is somewhat EU friendly, supports Ukraine and, most importantly, is the head of a different party. 16 years of Fidesz rule is over. That’s not nothing.
Imagine if Iran had allied with ISIS, killed the US President and bombed several US schools, then a couple of weeks later Iran’s leader goes “anyway, we are winding down this war. It is someone else’s problem now.”
That’s not how war works.
I’m Swedish.
Not a single social democrat in my country would ever call themselves conservative, even though they want to preserve the welfare state that the right is eroding. Only the right and the far right call themselves conservatives.