Speech restrictions have always existed in the US, and they have never been enforced in a content-neutral way.
conservatism is a dual to liberalism, both generally incrementalist, favor effecting change from inside existing institutions
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whereas far left and far right alike see existing systems as beyond saving or active impediments and favor replacing wholesale with their own designs
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this isn't to say protesters like the charlottesville people have a single coherent ideology or anything
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it's an amorphous, disorganized "big tent" affair more akin to occupy wall street than anything
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I'd phrase this similarly, but with a slight difference: conservatives favor maintaining existing systems as they are, or (at the farther
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end) as they were. Liberals want change within the overall framework of the current system—and specifically avoid rank reversal.
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They're thus both ideologies for people who are fundamentally satisfied with the system and enfranchised by it.
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Any change which doesn't fit into the space of perturbation of the existing system—eg, any chance which reverses rank hierarchies—
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automatically falls outside those bounds, and becomes Leftism.
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