Stupidity runs through conservative veins. I’m Canadian and I have a co-worker practically begging for trump to come here. He called our PM Mark Carney a weak leader for standing up to trump, cause that makes sense. Yet we all know damn well that if a dem was president, Carney would be called spineless for working with them instead of “fighting for a deal.”
It’s just weird because there are those who are very smart in their jobs, so for those I think it’s just bigoted and hateful. Most, however, are both dumb and hateful (aka real insecurity channeled towards the scapegoats that the ultra-wealthy oligarchs push via Newsmax, Fox, TPUSA, OANN, Heritage, CPAC, etc.)
I think a big part of it is our human hypocrisy. This co worker calls our natives “wagon burners” as an insult saying it was unjustified to treat the european settlers like that, yet he basically arms his whole family and locks down his house if a car pulls over near his house.
He can understand a desire to protect himself, his family, and his land, but he can’t show any sympathy to others who had their families and land taken away. He vilifies hitler and idolizes trump. A lot of it boils down to hypocrisy.
But the hypocrisy is fundamentally because they lack empathy. The entire mindset of Conservatism is “how can this personally benefit ME”, or: “fuck everyone else, I got mine”
Stupidity runs through conservative veins. I’m Canadian and I have a co-worker practically begging for trump to come here. He called our PM Mark Carney a weak leader for standing up to trump, cause that makes sense. Yet we all know damn well that if a dem was president, Carney would be called spineless for working with them instead of “fighting for a deal.”
It’s just weird because there are those who are very smart in their jobs, so for those I think it’s just bigoted and hateful. Most, however, are both dumb and hateful (aka real insecurity channeled towards the scapegoats that the ultra-wealthy oligarchs push via Newsmax, Fox, TPUSA, OANN, Heritage, CPAC, etc.)
I think a big part of it is our human hypocrisy. This co worker calls our natives “wagon burners” as an insult saying it was unjustified to treat the european settlers like that, yet he basically arms his whole family and locks down his house if a car pulls over near his house.
He can understand a desire to protect himself, his family, and his land, but he can’t show any sympathy to others who had their families and land taken away. He vilifies hitler and idolizes trump. A lot of it boils down to hypocrisy.
But the hypocrisy is fundamentally because they lack empathy. The entire mindset of Conservatism is “how can this personally benefit ME”, or: “fuck everyone else, I got mine”