Posted on 06/04/2016 4:54:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Conservatives care about logic. Liberals care about emotion. Conservatives care about whether a program works or not. Liberals care about how supporting a program makes them feel. Conservatives take the positions they do because they believe theyre best for society. Liberals take the positions they do because they make them feel and look compassionate or superior to hold those positions.
Once you understand those basics, its very easy to see why both sides hold the positions they do on most issues and to comprehend why theres so little middle ground. Once you get the mentalities, you can predict where each side will come down on issues.
An extremely expensive program designed to help disadvantaged minority children read better that has been proven not to work? Liberals will support it and conservatives will oppose.
A program that cuts the deficit by cutting people off the welfare and disability rolls who dont belong there in the first place? Conservatives will support it and liberals will oppose.
A program called Puppies for Orphans that hands out therapy dogs to poor children at $100,000 per year in cost? Liberals will support it and conservatives will oppose.
The problem with all of this is that most of what passes for compassion with liberals isnt real compassion. Theres a cost to real compassion and thus, a limit to it.
For example, lets say Bill Gates makes $10 billion this year and gives away $500 million. Meanwhile, a middle class accountant makes $50,000 and gives away $5,000. We could argue about whos more compassionate. After all Bill Gates gives away more, but the accountant gives away a bigger percentage of his income. Furthermore, there are limits to what both men can and should do. If Gates gives away so much money that Microsoft goes out of business and the accountant gives away so much money he loses his home, wed consider them to be fools. Compassionate fools, but fools. This creates limits on what truly compassionate people can do. Many people talk about compassion, but only a few are going to go work overseas like Mother Teresa, consistently give 10% of their income to charity, or adopt orphaned boys.
On the other hand, 99 times out of 100, liberals compassion is nothing more than virtue signaling. Theyre offering to take your money and give it to someone else. Theyre offering to take rights away from other people that they dont care about. Theyre saying people are racist, bigoted, sexist or homophobic for disagreeing with them.
Its cost-free for someone to talk about how much he hates racism because racism is almost universally despised in America. There is no price to be paid for attacking a zoo that made the difficult decision to shoot a gorilla because a boy had fallen into his pen. If youre not a Christian and have no moral qualms about gay marriage, its easy to call for the law to crack down on bakers or wedding photographers who refuse to participate because they find it morally repulsive.
The problem with all this pointless virtue signaling is that because there is no real cost to it, there are no limits to it. As long as liberals lose nothing by advocating a position, but get credit for being compassionate for taking it, why not go for it?
This creates a situation where people have to keep on upping the ante to stand out. If racism is almost universally despised, how do you get credit for being more sensitive about race than other people? You find new things to call racist. Eventually, when liberals moved beyond parody when it came to race issues, they showed they were compassionate by obsessing over the 3% of the American population thats gay. Then from there, they became maniacally focused on the .3% of the population (if that) that claims to be transgender.
If every single thing on the liberal wish list for minorities, gays and transgenders were to happen tomorrow, a new list of demands or some new series of pet groups that need to be protected would spring up almost instantaneously. Thats because its not about the specifics; its about an arms race between liberals trying to signal their virtue by being willing to go further than other people in being conspicuously compassionate while getting in some cheap shots on their political opponents at the same time.
The problem with this is that compassion, real or fake, has little to do with what makes a society successful. Capitalism is not warm and fuzzy. Contrary to what some people seem to believe, diversity and sensitivity to womens issues are not what makes a military successful. In fact, the most effective policies are often not very forgiving or compassionate. So, when you have a large block of the country that completely abandons what works for whatever makes liberals feel good and look more compassionate, it creates enormous amounts of dysfunction. Its like picking which car youre going to drive in a race because of the paint job. A paint job isnt irrelevant, but its also not going to win the race for you. Unfortunately, people with this mindset are only able to figure out that theyre doing something wrong after the car crashes and the whole country is along for the ride.
< Liberals take the positions they do because they make them feel and look compassionate or superior to hold those positions.
BAM! Hit the nail right on the head in that one sentence right there.
“Virtue signaling” is important in a world that no longer teaches virtue or knows what it is. Or wants to know what it is.
Wrong premise up front. Liberals hate God and care about control. Conservatives don’t care what you believe about God and do not want to control other people’s lives. Liberals are not driven by emotion. Liberals are driven by an inner drive to change nature as it is. They are totally pissed off at God for making the world the way you made it
because it causes all others to focus on what ever they are complaining about so they can march the 800 pound gorilla past everyone without them even noticing.
I have a simpler explanation
Female vs Male traits
Females are emotional
Males are logical
Young male exhibit female traits, but tend to become more male dominated once they’re older
Females once married exhibit male traits
Because it helps them with female voters.
I think it’s because all those things give liberals power with their demand for special rights.
Like adolescents, they get a kick out of rebelling, and shocking the adults...or conservatives.
And, the leaders cave so quickly to their every whim, it’s no wonder the keep on.
Racism et al serves as a surrogate for class. All Marxism is based on a theory of class conflict. When the standard Marxist formula of class based on economic circumstance proved to be too blatantly untenable the socialist left jumped to other definitions of class, while leaving most of the rest of the Marxist canon in place. It's that simple.
Because Democrats are all about identity politics and making people feel like victims. This is what justifies their Big Government approach.
It all comes down to destroying the moral fabric of this country so they can force their progressive/communist way on the population.
I believe the liberal trade is that they are emotional, whether they are male or female. The conservatives are logical, whether they are male or female. I know I am and I am a she.
“Unfortunately, people with this mindset are only able to figure out that theyre doing something wrong after the car crashes and the whole country is along for the ride.”
This article is partially correct. The cannon fodder, cool aid leftists are the lemming followers who will die by the millions for their delusional dreams. The leadership, however, knows what they are doing and are intent on destroying Western civilization and establishing a communist dictatorship with themselves as the rulers.
The majority of ‘them’ are afflicted with one of these mental conditions.
Because their voter base is a crazy quilt of freaks and malcontents? Their pervert Leftist professors are busy trying to convert every White Christian male into their religion of Big Government non-religion and Wussie-ism, so the future of the nation looks bleak indeed.
Just wait until the central government edicts that separate toilet facilities must be provided for the nation’s negro population.
Like asking why Nazis are obsessed with antisemitism. Who cares? They just need to be defeated.
“It all comes down to destroying the moral fabric of this country”
...bingo! You need to pervert society. Make normal Husband, wife, kids look out of place. It confuses and angers.
Exactly!
This bears repeating!
Liberals think they are morally superior for promoting immorality.
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