Ideological orientations towards world change

Question 1

1 Radicals

Answer 1

-Change to new/untired greatlt desired
-Radical, broad, changes society proposed
-Change is needed yesterday
-Violence may be needed to create this change
-Humanity can be remade

Question 2

2 Progressives

Answer 2

-Receptice to new/untired
-Bold change should be tried
-Some urgency to change
-Hunanity can be improved with time

Question 3

3. Moderates

Answer 3

-Mostly status quo (the current state of things)
-Open to modest change
-Humanity can improve?
-Skeptical of extremes/extremism

Question 4

4 Conservatives

Answer 4

-Status Quo
-Slow/Modest change only
-If something has stood the test of time, it can’t be easily replaced
-Skeptical if human nature
-Skeptical about grand plans to improve human society’s

Question 5

5 Reactionaries

Answer 5

-Too much change already
-“Progress” should be undone/reversed
-Return to mythologized past
-Violence may be necessary
-We should embrace the “realities” of human nature