They think they're smarter/hipper than those who actively work toward a more positive vision.
Control freaks don't waste their time seeking power where there is none. Most of the federal power is in the executive branch bureaucracy. Another thick slice is in the media misinformation minders nominally employed in media. And there are various other organizations devoted to jumping on anything they find offensive so they can get people fired or deplatformed. The MAGA crowd seems more interested in liberty and survival, which they see threatened by the control freaks of our government and client organizations. That may end in secession or something similar, a mass going their own way and leaving the rest of the nation to spiral down the drain.
Ummm....they did shut down Roe.
You must not have been paying attention. Been stacking the Court for years.
And women have been screaming about the danger for years. Nobody took us seriously in 2016. People were having too much fun hating on Hillary Clinton. And now here we are.You must not have been paying attention. Been stacking the Court for years.
This is the single greatest one sentence summation of 21st century "conservatism" that will ever be written.
I'm no conservative, but that doesn't describe most of the ones that I know, especially in my family.
I know! It's explains why conservatives hold so many seemingly contradictory positions. At the bottom they have no principles or ideals. It's only "Gimme stuff, fuck everyone else!"
It accurately describes how conservatives feel about abortion, guns, automobiles, trans & gay rights, cops, and taxes. What conservative opinions do your family have that it doesn't apply to?
It's an inaccurate oversimplification of intents and attitudes behind policies that you just don't share. Some of which I don't share, either, but that's another story. That doesn't mean that I demonize those who share them as some kind of automatic oppressors. Some of those views are misguided, but they're not about sticking it to people. At least not from my experience.
Be specific. Which conservative intents, attitude, and policies does Wilhoit's Law not apply to?
I reject his supposed law entirely, to be honest. I see no evidence of its validity. What I do see from at least people like my parents is a misguided belief that those not like them need to reform and become like them, so then they wouldn't need tough love or whatever. It's silly, but it's what they believe. I've told them that I'm bi, for instance, and I think that they still believe that I can change out of that. It's wrong, but it's what they actually think. It doesn't mean that they think that I'm an unperson. They think that I just need to change. That's just one example of what I mean about this law being oversimplified. It doesn't capture their real sentiments, flawed as they are. I take it that you don't know too many actual conservatives, maybe a rare neocon who stumbles into your midst and is uncomfortably quiet when you discuss positions that he or she doesn't share, but chimes in whenever you denounce Trump.
Conservatives try to justify their positions by couching them in the highest principles. But if you take their "principles" and apply them universally, they start backpedaling and making justifications. We see this pattern over and over.
I'm not saying that they're consistent. I'm saying that this law that he proposed is an oversimplification of reality, without any nuance to it whatsoever.
Wilhoit's Law accurately explains why conservatives are inconsistent about their ideals. They have only one core principle: "Rules for you, but not for me".
Wow, you're on the ball, ken. LolUmmm....they did shut down Roe.
Again, I question its accuracy, as it is rather simplistic and without nuance, but believe what you wish. I don't have the time or energy for this. Like most autistic folks, I gave this business too much time in my state of hyper focus, anyway.
Ummm....they did shut down Roe.
You must not have been paying attention. Been stacking the Court for years.
With regards to abortion, leftists keep trying to claim conservatives are against women's choice and women's healthcare.
An interesting point. I am pro-choice myself, but I don't demonize pro-lifers like so many others do. I don't assign sinister motives to them for that. I believe them to be sincere, if misguided. My parents, for instance, have worked in the past to help unwed mothers who needed help and who had opted not to abort. That's just one example.
I think the best way to tackle abortion is reasonable sex education resources, that would contribute to the need for abortion plummeting.
If conservatives really believed that human life began at the moment of conception, they wouldn't write exceptions into their laws to allow abortions in certain circumstances. They do, so they don't. QED.
Late-term abortions are medical necessities. No one aborts an 8-month fetus because they forgot to use birth control.
