NeilBru

"Thriving" is a bit strong.

Why do you hate Bill Gates now?

A lot of things, but I suppose being a partaker of the Slaaneshi Shenanigans^tm^ at Epstein's island could be pretty near the top.

Ah, I think I understand your point better now; thanks.

Though it's also highly debatable, I still think that my old self-imposed label of "anti-authoritarian democratic market-socialist" would turn off more people than "anti-conservative".

At this rate, I should opt for "anti-technofeudalist" in a nod to Yannis Varoufakis if I'm going to piss people off anyway in the U.S.A.

Luckily for me, my wife is Dutch. Therefore, I split my time between the Netherlands and the U.S., so strangers asking about my political persuasion is an exceedingly rare event, at least when I'm in Europa.

Wildcat strikes. Unions can be infiltrated.

Every hired worker is required to have equity in the business as part of their compensation.

He is an independent as a Senator. But you're correct in that he ran as a Democrat in 2016.

Our (U.S.A.) best option for that in recent history was Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election.

😅 My apologies, I've been re-reading this reply many times and I'm not following your argument against the utility of using the "Anti-Conservative" label for myself if someone asks what is my political position (within the United States)?

Is your thesis that "Anti-conservative" is not specific enough?

I think tribalism and anti-tribalism would be a better starting point while that was a meaning already too.

On this, I agree.

However, I propose that the "Anti-Conservative" label, with all of its flaws, has more utility in presenting its economic and political implications within the admittedly linguistically absurd political discourse in my country (U.S.A.).

Aliens from a star that forms the constellation?

I am not sure if I agree with it being called conservatism.

Yes, Wilhoit, if I'm understanding his treatise correctly, addressed this point:

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

The corollary label could be "Anti-Establishment". Perhaps, "Anti-Authoritarian".

Both the USSR and Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939.