The dipshits on the bottom only care about having power over other people. The people at the top know that if they give the reactionaries one rung from the bottom shit on someone lower than them then they’ll be a reliable base. The people in government don’t care one bit about gay marriage, trans rights, Christian supremacy (well, most of them don’t), abortion, etc. They throw that out as red meat to their voters so that it reinforces the hierarchy. It’s always been this way. Look at the southern white population before the US civil war: most of them were not slaves owners, but the social hierarchy favored them over the black population so they were content to have pseudo-aristocrats dominating the political space.
Like I said: conservatives only care about power, and their preferred tool is a rigid social hierarchy.
And how they don’t care about consistency; they only say what they think will win the exact argument they’re having at the moment.
Their only consistent belief is that they should be in charge.
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people! Don’t do gun control, it’s all because of mental illness!”
“Okay, let’s do something about mental illness.”
“No!”
Black Panthers: Okay, we’ll arm ourselves to protect our neighborhood from racist cops/the KKK/etc.
Conservatives: No! You’re terrorists who should be extrajudicially executed!
They consistently dont care about others. And they destroy the society they take a hold in by pretending marginalized people are the Problem.
They are very consistent. The consistency is just basically evil.
Sure, but that’s all in service of power. That’s my point.
But that is the top down analysis.
Not very useful in understanding the cult members, only useful for understanding the cult.
However i would argue we know extensively how that works, but not necessirily what Happens in the cult member.
No it isn’t only a top-down analysis.
The dipshits on the bottom only care about having power over other people. The people at the top know that if they give the reactionaries one rung from the bottom shit on someone lower than them then they’ll be a reliable base. The people in government don’t care one bit about gay marriage, trans rights, Christian supremacy (well, most of them don’t), abortion, etc. They throw that out as red meat to their voters so that it reinforces the hierarchy. It’s always been this way. Look at the southern white population before the US civil war: most of them were not slaves owners, but the social hierarchy favored them over the black population so they were content to have pseudo-aristocrats dominating the political space.
Like I said: conservatives only care about power, and their preferred tool is a rigid social hierarchy.
Highly doubt that this is the conscious thing.
And i dont say it is wrong, just for the record, i Said that everybidy knows this already.
If conservatives didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have standards at all