Conservatives were right/tired critical refugees of the left unite
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It took the entire left shifting 7 lightyears away from me before I realized that lol. At this point I don't know what I am.
Recognizing that political discourse has shifted far to the left, and believing that this is a bad thing; that we should reverse course from where we are because something's been lost - this makes you what's called a reactionary.
The fact that it's true that we've gone so far left in such a short time, means of course that people who would have been considered center-left 10 years ago will be reactionaries now if they didn't change their views. As you observe, "conservatives were right" - they predicted the moral decay of our current age. But those before them predicted the moral decay of theirs; consider the sexual revolution and how it paved the way for LGBT rights.
Reactionaries follow this logic to its conclusion. If discourse has been shifting leftward for so long, with the conservatives predicting every step, where did things go wrong? Was it LGBT rights? Was it the sexual revolution? Was it the 19th amendment? Was it the enlightenment? Answers differ on this question, but most reactionaries would agree that we're witnessing the decline of our civilization.
I still don't agree entirely with the ideology of the right
One important thing to note about what's called "the right" is that it's not a single viewpoint. Unlike the left, which can be loosely identified as a single structure that favors egalitarianism and social justice (who admittedly disagree about how to get there), the right is simply a rejection of the left - which you also reject, making you therefore right-wing. Viewpoints that reject the egalitarianism and social justice of the left include:
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