Conservative Dictionary Project (M)

Marriage

True conservative meaning - A union between one man and one woman under god.

False liberal redefinition - Godless union between anything, including multiple partners (polygamy), man and man, adult and child, woman and woman, man and beast.

McCarthyism

Date: 1950

True conservative meaning - going after communists

False liberal redefinition - to harass/intimidate people and accuse them of treason without good evidence, merely for holding leftist views

meritocracy

Conservative word

Date: 1958

True conservative meaning - a system where rulers are chosen based on merit and talent

moving the goalposts

Date: late 1980s

True conservative meaning - accusation evolutionist use to avoid answering questions

False liberal redefinition - a fallacy where agreed upon conditions for determining an argument are arbitrarily changed after the conditions have been met

mobocracy

Conservative word

Date: 1754

True conservative meaning - rule by mob (see Wikipedia)

False liberal redefinition - a democratic, co-operative, participatory and anti-hierarchical system

moral majority

Conservative word

Date: 1979

True conservative meaning - a Christian conservative movement

False liberal redefinition - a far-right, religious fanatic organization that wishes to establish a theocracy in the United States