Corporation For Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after funding cuts(theguardian.com)
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Corporation For Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after funding cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/05/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-board-dissolves
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I think I know the answer to this question but curious of other perspectives - why is it that like 40 years ago, right-leaning folks wanted to conserve institutions, and now that's flipped.
it does I dunno explain or is correlated with why the political compass doesn't use the term liberal or conservative (it uses libertarian but obviously not the same thing.). It's kind of interesting that I think that maybe 10 years ago I would have said left / liberal / democrat and right / conservative / Republican were synonyms, and now I would say those are very different words with very different meanings.
it does I dunno explain or is correlated with why the political compass doesn't use the term liberal or conservative (it uses libertarian but obviously not the same thing.). It's kind of interesting that I think that maybe 10 years ago I would have said left / liberal / democrat and right / conservative / Republican were synonyms, and now I would say those are very different words with very different meanings.
Because the institutions have been rotted out by liberal insanity. Conservatives have no reason to conserve institutions that exist only to attack conservative ideals.
Tell me how you really feel! I think I would make a different argument, that folks on the left or center-left are now conservative, and folks on the right are now sort of reactionary or maybe even anarchic(David Brooks said “Nohilistic” in this piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/rufo-yarvin-trump...).
Which gets to a weird point because you can’t create new institutions with nihilism (Christopher Rufo has said has much)
Also “rotted out” is an interesting verb. They seem stronger than ever! Wasn’t that the problem? If they were rotted out you wouldn’t need to destroy them.
Also, I think I would absolutely say they do more than attack conservative ideals, partially because - what are conservatives ideals? I don’t think anyone on the right is aligned as to what those might be, if even a significant number of people on the right define themselves as conservatice - and again to use the word conservative here is interesting when many on the right aren’t seeking to conserve, do you mean right leaning ideals, Christian ideals? I describe myself as culturally conservative and I think there may be less of left in the right these days than the left(not saying there are a ton there either)
Which gets to a weird point because you can’t create new institutions with nihilism (Christopher Rufo has said has much)
Also “rotted out” is an interesting verb. They seem stronger than ever! Wasn’t that the problem? If they were rotted out you wouldn’t need to destroy them.
Also, I think I would absolutely say they do more than attack conservative ideals, partially because - what are conservatives ideals? I don’t think anyone on the right is aligned as to what those might be, if even a significant number of people on the right define themselves as conservatice - and again to use the word conservative here is interesting when many on the right aren’t seeking to conserve, do you mean right leaning ideals, Christian ideals? I describe myself as culturally conservative and I think there may be less of left in the right these days than the left(not saying there are a ton there either)
Oh, brother. Do you have any proof or are you parroting MAGA talking points? What ideals are you talking about? Conservative ideals have definitely shifted to the far right. I remember the Tea Party was at odds with other conservatives in the GOP and then they took over.
Saddened at the dumbing of America.
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