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”
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”