NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
Conservation.
It is (or at least it used to be) a concept that conservatives embraced. In fact, Teddy Roosevelt was on the vanguard of the conservation movement through the establishment of our national parks. Now, conservatives routinely setting aside public lands for preservation.
In fact, very often today I hear conservatives mock the concept of conservation. As an example of that, it's not uncommon for some conservatives to come on this board on Earth Day and proudly proclaim that they fully intend on turning on every light in their homes with the intention of leaving them on all night.
What happened to the conservative movement to make them abandon one of their core beliefs and instead embrace waste up to and including the destruction of our natural environment?
The wholesale sellout of the Right to the corporations began early in the seventies.
Read the Powell Memorandum sometime. Lewis Powell Jr., a key founder of modern conservative pro-business extremism...
The Powell Memo or the Powell Manifesto Text and Analysis