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I’ve been around for over 4 decades and the only thing I’ve ever seen conservatives give a fuck about were gas prices, unborn babies (specifically), and people with not white skin becoming president.
Note: Specifically unborn babies because they don’t give a flying fuck about kids after they’re born. That’s why they voted for a party that is currently obliterating child cancer research and are against free school lunches.
That’s because Conservativism isn’t really am ideology. It’s psychological cover for being selfish. Conservatives define their core values based on whatever is good for the people within the Conservative group. They believe that they are the good people, the special people, and that they are entitled to whatever they want. Anyone that stands in their way is evil. Any facts that challenge their world view are lies. Any crimes they commit in service to their goals are justified.
Conservatives don’t care about gas prices or unborn babies or racism unless those issues help them get elected. Conservatives get abortions when they want them. They will even blame other people getting abortions “for no reason” as the reason why they can’t get their own “totally justified and moral” abortion.
They start wars, make trade agreements, and deregulate inustries that raise gas prices, because someone is getting rich from the high gas prices. When Conservatives are in charge and prices go up, they will tell you it is your patriotic duty to fuel up you SUV and drive around.
Even the racism is entirely user dependent. Black conservatives, Latino conservatives, Asian conservatives, Jewish conservatives, Islamic conservatives, Russian conservatives, they all hate someone and they all pretend to be the most persecuted people. It doesn’t matter if they all hate the same people, as long as they hate somebody.
This is not politics. It’s pathological narcissism.
This all has a simple cause at the root: conservative worldview assumes that life is a zero-sum game, and for one person or group to prosper, others must lose.
Perhaps, but to expend effort on getting someone to lose and themselves to win, they must believe that the balance works that way. If they believed that cooperation is a win-win situation and absence of cooperation is lose-lose, they would act differently.
Conservative worldview stems from the belief that the resources are always limited, so if someone else is getting them then the conservative in question doesn’t. If you extrapolate this presupposition, you can derive pretty much every single position that conservatives hold on any issue.
Although it’s funny that fiscal individualism, aiming to keep one’s money to themselves, ends up benefitting corporations and rich bastards hoarding the wealth.
I don’t think those two things are mutually exclusive. I mean… I’m not a religious person, so perhaps there’s some nuance to it that I don’t get, but, yeah… there is at least some overlap
I’ve been around for over 4 decades and the only thing I’ve ever seen conservatives give a fuck about were gas prices, unborn babies (specifically), and people with not white skin becoming president.
Note: Specifically unborn babies because they don’t give a flying fuck about kids after they’re born. That’s why they voted for a party that is currently obliterating child cancer research and are against free school lunches.
It’s because the real motivation isn’t the kids, it’s punishing women. Babies are just the marketing.
That’s because Conservativism isn’t really am ideology. It’s psychological cover for being selfish. Conservatives define their core values based on whatever is good for the people within the Conservative group. They believe that they are the good people, the special people, and that they are entitled to whatever they want. Anyone that stands in their way is evil. Any facts that challenge their world view are lies. Any crimes they commit in service to their goals are justified.
Conservatives don’t care about gas prices or unborn babies or racism unless those issues help them get elected. Conservatives get abortions when they want them. They will even blame other people getting abortions “for no reason” as the reason why they can’t get their own “totally justified and moral” abortion.
They start wars, make trade agreements, and deregulate inustries that raise gas prices, because someone is getting rich from the high gas prices. When Conservatives are in charge and prices go up, they will tell you it is your patriotic duty to fuel up you SUV and drive around.
Even the racism is entirely user dependent. Black conservatives, Latino conservatives, Asian conservatives, Jewish conservatives, Islamic conservatives, Russian conservatives, they all hate someone and they all pretend to be the most persecuted people. It doesn’t matter if they all hate the same people, as long as they hate somebody.
This is not politics. It’s pathological narcissism.
This all has a simple cause at the root: conservative worldview assumes that life is a zero-sum game, and for one person or group to prosper, others must lose.
It’s not even that complicated. A comservative doesn’t care if anyone else loses, as long as they feel like they win.
Perhaps, but to expend effort on getting someone to lose and themselves to win, they must believe that the balance works that way. If they believed that cooperation is a win-win situation and absence of cooperation is lose-lose, they would act differently.
Conservative worldview stems from the belief that the resources are always limited, so if someone else is getting them then the conservative in question doesn’t. If you extrapolate this presupposition, you can derive pretty much every single position that conservatives hold on any issue.
Although it’s funny that fiscal individualism, aiming to keep one’s money to themselves, ends up benefitting corporations and rich bastards hoarding the wealth.
They also really hate us LGBTQ people
They don’t hate you they think you’re literally an abomination. Especially the religious ones
I don’t think those two things are mutually exclusive. I mean… I’m not a religious person, so perhaps there’s some nuance to it that I don’t get, but, yeah… there is at least some overlap
Hey, they care a lot about children after they’re born, just not the way a normal person cares about them …
Guns and hating any sort of liberal thought.