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And honestly, 'conservative' shouldn't be a bad word either. But it's been morphed into this fascist hate machine, and it's hard to see what you've become when you're on the inside.
It's not like Democrats are screaming to tear down the Walmarts and Dollar Generals, and bring back local businesses and repairable products. Neither side is all that great, it's just that one is teetering on genocidal. I'm not saying don't vote democrat, because you absolutely have to if you want to head off what's coming. But we need to start looking at this problem more holistically, if we don't just want to perpetuate it in future generations.
The term “fundamentalist” was coined because “conservative” was a bad word, and that was over a century ago. Conservative hate is nothing new.
Source? I never heard fundamentalism was coined as an alternative to saying conservative. Fundamentalism could be described as conservative but I don't think the 1920s fundamentalists were trying to avoid that in any way.