I don’t buy this study at all. Conservatives don’t think everyone is vulnerable, they explicitly try to discrimimate and hurt those they view as lesser. They hate minorities getting special protections not because they think everyone deserves them, but because they actively want to hurt people they don’t like. There’s no amount of spin that makes their hate anything but exactly that. They’re vile people.
I totally buy this study. If you talk to conservatives, they very much feel like they’re bigoted approaches are based in protecting the people who deserve to be protected.
The right-wing view is largely based in the idea that the left is trying to force people to do things that are harmful to them and others, and so the right-wing view is required to protect people from left-wing damage.
We could argue which of these two views is accurate, of course, which is very much what the world has been doing for the last three years and what we can do for some time to come. However, it’s important to understand the right view from the right-wing perspective.
There’s a few ways around that. You either convince people that they are rich enough for this stuff to matter to them, or that they will be one day, or that they’re voting in the sense of fairness, even if they’re not directly impacted.
Although most of the times these days, the strategy is to make people afraid of progressive politics. It will do them harm personally.
The thing you need to understand is that the average conservative thinks about themselves way more than they think about others. If something bad happens to everyone, they see it as a huge issue for themselves, and maybe a bit of an issue for other people, too. If something good happens to everyone, they see it as maybe a slight improvement for themselves, but probably a major windfall for other people.
This leads them to think that they’ve been slighted by everyone at every turn, and that they have to fight to take good things away from others and give them to themselves in order to regain “balance” based on their own totally unbalanced account of what happened. They think they’re being fair, only because they have no ability to think objectively about their own experience at all.
I don’t buy this study at all. Conservatives don’t think everyone is vulnerable, they explicitly try to discrimimate and hurt those they view as lesser. They hate minorities getting special protections not because they think everyone deserves them, but because they actively want to hurt people they don’t like. There’s no amount of spin that makes their hate anything but exactly that. They’re vile people.
I totally buy this study. If you talk to conservatives, they very much feel like they’re bigoted approaches are based in protecting the people who deserve to be protected.
The right-wing view is largely based in the idea that the left is trying to force people to do things that are harmful to them and others, and so the right-wing view is required to protect people from left-wing damage.
We could argue which of these two views is accurate, of course, which is very much what the world has been doing for the last three years and what we can do for some time to come. However, it’s important to understand the right view from the right-wing perspective.
Funny how that always results in siding with the rich and powerful.
Indeed.
It’s not surprising, but it is frequently overlooked, how many people think the universal right answer happens to be the one that benefits them.
Most of the voting base isn’t rich though
There’s a few ways around that. You either convince people that they are rich enough for this stuff to matter to them, or that they will be one day, or that they’re voting in the sense of fairness, even if they’re not directly impacted.
Although most of the times these days, the strategy is to make people afraid of progressive politics. It will do them harm personally.
The thing you need to understand is that the average conservative thinks about themselves way more than they think about others. If something bad happens to everyone, they see it as a huge issue for themselves, and maybe a bit of an issue for other people, too. If something good happens to everyone, they see it as maybe a slight improvement for themselves, but probably a major windfall for other people.
This leads them to think that they’ve been slighted by everyone at every turn, and that they have to fight to take good things away from others and give them to themselves in order to regain “balance” based on their own totally unbalanced account of what happened. They think they’re being fair, only because they have no ability to think objectively about their own experience at all.