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Define “liberal”. Many liberals these days are conservative rather than progressive, so I won’t disagree with your statement.
Conservatives are not able to experience empathy for anyone outside of their in-group, so they tend to see every interaction with “others” as transactional.
Conservatism is a vile plague of inhumanity, oppression and death and should be treated as such. It is due for a cure.
Conservatism is a vile plague of inhumanity, oppression and death and should be treated as such. It is due for a cure.
And yet they seem to be the majority, or close to it. So one has to ask, why is that so many people turn to it. It has to give them value. And is that value real or perceived.
For some it is very real, usually the exceptionally wealthy. Which means conservatism is profitable.
Not having empathy for anyone outside of your in group would make it easy to dismiss or justify the fact that the first rule of capitalism is find a weakness and exploit it
Because most
peopleconservatives nowadays see everything as a transactionFTFY
Yeah, as if liberals are immune to that kind of rationing.
Define “liberal”. Many liberals these days are conservative rather than progressive, so I won’t disagree with your statement.
Conservatives are not able to experience empathy for anyone outside of their in-group, so they tend to see every interaction with “others” as transactional.
Conservatism is a vile plague of inhumanity, oppression and death and should be treated as such. It is due for a cure.
And yet they seem to be the majority, or close to it. So one has to ask, why is that so many people turn to it. It has to give them value. And is that value real or perceived.
For some it is very real, usually the exceptionally wealthy. Which means conservatism is profitable.
Not having empathy for anyone outside of your in group would make it easy to dismiss or justify the fact that the first rule of capitalism is find a weakness and exploit it
Conservativism and Capitalism are closely tied. They both profit from people’s weaknesses and flaws.