“I’ve been chatting with a woman who walks her dog around town. She’s one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. After I broke my arm, she advised me on how to exercise it back to health. She is a Pilates teacher. We always say hello and have been doing so for a while. “
What I fail to understand is that the vast majority of your suburban liberals like her are quite conservative in their personal lives. But when it comes to voting, they vote for the opposite. They act responsibly in their private affairs, but are quick to tolerate irresponsible behavior especially in those they see as the downtrodden.
The only thing I can attribute that to is that they’re infected with the disease of “pathological compassion” - the type of compassion that destroys the giver and the receiver. They have been “guilt tripped” into supporting the most destructive public policies in the name of “compassion”. And their highest aspiration is to see themsemselves as “nice, compassionate people”.
They are also incapable of connecting dots. To them cause and effect doesn’t exist.
See my tag line.
Ayn Rand used to write about one way humans are different than animals are not just that we are thinking creatures—we get to choose whether to think or not.
The virtue signalers have intentionally chosen not to think so they can “feel good” about themselves.
They have that luxury because they have food on the table and a roof over their head in their Whitopia of virtue signalers.
If times got tough they would have to get street smarts in a hurry.