Conservative Dictionary Project (M)
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- 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