Why are Republicans/Conservatives embracing fanaticalism these days?

joel1974@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 98 points –

America has always rejected fanaticism, especially since WWII. We are supposed to be E pluribus unum -- out of many, ONE. Now, the right wants America to be E unum pluribus -- out of ONE, many.

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Climate change is real. We either do nothing and everything changes, or we change our way of living to save humanity. Either way, change is coming.

There's nothing to conserve. Conservatism doesn't have a ground in facts & reality, if it ever had. Hence conservatism now fights fanatically for its own survival, and capitalism survival, at the behest cost of all us, the progress that humanity has achieved so far, and the planet that we all share.

FYI, I'm pretty sure "at the behest of" means "as requested by", but it looks like you meant something more like "to the detriment of" or "at the cost of"