• Halosheep@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      I’m aware of the phrase’s meaning. It’s not being used this way from what I can tell.

      Seems to me that conservative policy is the status quo. Almost by definition, ‘conserving’ the way things are, or what they believe it is. As a general trend, the us has leaned much more conservative. This is the status quo.

      Changing, progressive policy is literally antithetical to the status quo. A woman in office is not the current state. So why do people say that the dem candidate is the status quo if that makes no sense?

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        There’s definitely an element of misinformation here. Too many people are rebelling against a “status quo” that never existed