You’ve perfectly articulated what drives me absolutely bonkers about Conservatives. Sometimes I feel like I’m on Punk’d. How do they not see how what they’re saying is often, sometimes verbatim, the very opposite of what they’re doing? E.g. they complain about “woke cancel culture!” yet they ban books because it features two fathers, they tell “freedom!”, yet they dictate, over doctors, which care women and trans kids may receive, “Curb spending!” vs “trillion dollar tax cuts for disproven trickle down economics”, “small government!” vs “let’s regulate what people can and can’t wear”. It’s projection 101 and it’s maddening.
They see it. They don’t care. Don’t fall into the trap of believing that modern American conservatives want whats best for America and just disagree with the rest of us on what that is or how to do it. This is a naked power grab on multiple fronts, from rigging the supreme court to trying to give state legislatures the right to ignore the results of an election all the way to committing acts of terrorism in trying to deny Joe Biden the presidency. They want a white supremacist religious autocracy. They want to establish a ruling class that they are members of, and a ruled class that they can freely abuse under color of law. Everything they say that sounds reasonable, like “save the children” or “states rights” or “small government” is a smokescreen, so that complacent cishet white liberals can justify not getting involved because they don’t think that the terrorists will come for them personally. At CPAC they gathered under a banner that said “We Are All Domestic Terrorists”. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Which is practically dumb in any real life situation. People think their hierarchies will keep them safe and keep order. But you need those people “under” you. All these roles we create have purpose and are important. The heasd chef can’t run a kitchen by themselves, my boss absolutely cannot understand Mobile Device Managemenr and needs me there. Hierarchies as rigid caste systems are absolutely bullshit. People are not file trees.
Exactly, it’s the level of hypocrisy that makes my blood boil. It used to be that the main hypocrisy we’d see was that they’d all tout family values and then get caught cheating on their spouse or whatever. But that stuff is mild compared to today, with them advocating for small government to get rid of any law they don’t like while also wanting a government that enforces their personal religious views on everyone else.
More and more, the only difference between Christian conservatives and the Taliban is the name on the book they cite, and that’s not hyperbole.
With folks like this you MUST ignore their words and watch their actions instead. Their actions tell the entire story of who they are and what they actually think. You cannot project your own honesty and good faith onto them. They have an entirely different operating system than you and if you view them through your lens your already losing. Judge them by their actions.
You’ve perfectly articulated what drives me absolutely bonkers about Conservatives. Sometimes I feel like I’m on Punk’d. How do they not see how what they’re saying is often, sometimes verbatim, the very opposite of what they’re doing? E.g. they complain about “woke cancel culture!” yet they ban books because it features two fathers, they tell “freedom!”, yet they dictate, over doctors, which care women and trans kids may receive, “Curb spending!” vs “trillion dollar tax cuts for disproven trickle down economics”, “small government!” vs “let’s regulate what people can and can’t wear”. It’s projection 101 and it’s maddening.
They see it. They don’t care. Don’t fall into the trap of believing that modern American conservatives want whats best for America and just disagree with the rest of us on what that is or how to do it. This is a naked power grab on multiple fronts, from rigging the supreme court to trying to give state legislatures the right to ignore the results of an election all the way to committing acts of terrorism in trying to deny Joe Biden the presidency. They want a white supremacist religious autocracy. They want to establish a ruling class that they are members of, and a ruled class that they can freely abuse under color of law. Everything they say that sounds reasonable, like “save the children” or “states rights” or “small government” is a smokescreen, so that complacent cishet white liberals can justify not getting involved because they don’t think that the terrorists will come for them personally. At CPAC they gathered under a banner that said “We Are All Domestic Terrorists”. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
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Which is practically dumb in any real life situation. People think their hierarchies will keep them safe and keep order. But you need those people “under” you. All these roles we create have purpose and are important. The heasd chef can’t run a kitchen by themselves, my boss absolutely cannot understand Mobile Device Managemenr and needs me there. Hierarchies as rigid caste systems are absolutely bullshit. People are not file trees.
Exactly, it’s the level of hypocrisy that makes my blood boil. It used to be that the main hypocrisy we’d see was that they’d all tout family values and then get caught cheating on their spouse or whatever. But that stuff is mild compared to today, with them advocating for small government to get rid of any law they don’t like while also wanting a government that enforces their personal religious views on everyone else.
More and more, the only difference between Christian conservatives and the Taliban is the name on the book they cite, and that’s not hyperbole.
With folks like this you MUST ignore their words and watch their actions instead. Their actions tell the entire story of who they are and what they actually think. You cannot project your own honesty and good faith onto them. They have an entirely different operating system than you and if you view them through your lens your already losing. Judge them by their actions.