Why Liberals Don’t Understand Conservatives

[OralAllOver]

All that and.....liberal women are satanic ugy with missing buck teeth! Or ese they are just plain FUGLY! View attachment 2594389

OK
Republicans ugly on inside

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

All that and.....liberal women are satanic ugy with missing buck teeth! Or ese they are just plain FUGLY! View attachment 2594389

you know what the cast of mtv jersey shore from there early days would call those left wing ladies that the usual right wingers on here would post of left wing ladies

in other words whenever the usuals on here posts pics of left wing ladies well you know what the cast of mtv jersey shore from there early days would call them

 

[SebastianHolt]

https://agoodreason.net/2018/04/why-liberals-dont-understand-conservatives/

Many liberals, though, have trouble comprehending conservatives. In his studies of liberals and conservatives reported in The Righteous Mind, NYU-Stern Business School professor Jonathan Haidt found that liberals – particularly the “very” liberal – were consistently worse than conservatives at predicting how the other side would respond to various moral questions. “When faced with questions such as ‘One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal’ or “Justice is the most important requirement for a society,’ liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.”

This failure to “get” conservatives may be due to the liberal suspicion that selfishness and bigotry are the real motivations behind conservatism. That unsympathetic perception creates a communication blockage. If the liberal is hearing nothing more than an attempt to justify selfishness and bigotry, why continue listening? What more is there to “get”? As the New York Times book review of The Righteous Mind explained:


This hostility to conservatism is apparent in almost any liberal attempt to explain it. “Conservatism is a type of motivated social cognition,” explains Salon magazine, “that by its very nature is hostile to members of groups on the lower rungs of the social hierarchy.” A PolicusUSA headline declared in 2013 (ie, pre-Trump) “Today’s Republicans are Yesterday’s Fascists.”

Writer George Lakoff, in an article entitled “Why the Conservative Worldview Exalts Selfishness,” explains that conservatives believe being rich is a reflection of moral superiority, while poverty is a sign of morally inferiority; in other words, that the poor deserve their poverty. Which is an argument I’ve heard before, but never from an actual conservative.

Maybe he didn’t intend to be taken literally, but prominent New York theater critic Michael Feingold (formerly of the Village Voice) has this to say about Republicans:


These angry liberals think they do “get” conservatives: Conservatives are selfish bigots. This perception not only stands in the way of comprehending conservatives, it leads almost inevitably to the current nationwide “shut down conservatives” movement. It is why libertarian writer Charles Murray was shouted down and roughed up at Middlebury College in 2017, and why colleges continually “disinvite” such speakers as columnist George Will, writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, and anyone else who deviates from the liberal narrative.

In fact, most libertarians and conservatives care about the poor, about minorities, about the environment, about education. There are non-selfish, non-bigoted, non-stupid reasons for holding conservative views. Most conservatives are decent people with whom liberals are simply in disagreement. It would help if at least that much was understood.​

liberals believe money grows on trees

 

[SebastianHolt]

OK
Republicans ugly on inside

sorry that we won't hand over our hard earned money do you. get a job

 

[SkyBubble]

liberals believe money grows on trees

And that it belongs to them to do with as they please.

They think money just exists without asking why or how. To them, the only interesting question is how to distribute it -- and they believe only they can do so properly.

 

[SkyBubble]

OK
Republicans ugly on inside

You clearly don't know any.

The fact is that study after study after study has shown Republicans are more inclined to support charity then Democrats. Conservatives are more likely than liberals. Libertarians are more likely than progressives.

The study was originally done by lefties who wanted to prove the opposite. They were so confounded by the results tha tthey did it again and got essentially the same results. They've replicated it several times now.

 

[Wilson23]

liberals believe money grows on trees

Fruit grows on trees. Fruit is worth money.

But only after somebody picks it. Liberals understand that the market does not create wealth. Only one thing EVER creates wealth: Labor.

 

[SebastianHolt]

Fruit grows on trees. Fruit is worth money.

But only after somebody picks it. Liberals understand that the market does not create wealth. Only one thing EVER creates wealth: Labor.

not true, the state of the market this week has generated a nice bump in my wealth

Labor is now obsolete as the enterprise will automate and avoid labor

 

[OralAllOver]

Hey Junior Wall Street Boys,
the stratification of wealth threatens our democracy! You notice troubles there?

Remember, or have read about, the Greatest Generation? 1959 seem like an ideal year? Well, the top bracket for federal personal income tax was 91%

Maybe the greatest generation knew something you don't, and maybe they built a better country than Musk et al are tearing down

 

[Wilson23]

not true, the state of the market this week has generated a nice bump in my wealth

Labor is now obsolete as the enterprise will automate and avoid labor

Only labor can create the automation.

 

[YDB95]

You clearly don't know any.

The fact is that study after study after study has shown Republicans are more inclined to support charity then Democrats. Conservatives are more likely than liberals. Libertarians are more likely than progressives.

The study was originally done by lefties who wanted to prove the opposite. They were so confounded by the results tha tthey did it again and got essentially the same results. They've replicated it several times now.

Since you're obviously talking about one particular study, please provide a link.

 

[SkyBubble]

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/who-gives-more-liberals-or-conservatives/

https://www.michelemargolis.com/uploads/2/0/2/0/20207607/giving.pdf

https://yaf.org/news/the-season-of-not-giving-liberals-less-charitable-than-conservatives/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...eral-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/conservatives-are-more-giving-than-liberals/

There are plenty more where those came form. Shall I go on?

 

[YDB95]

Thank you for at least putting your money where your mouth is for once. But we already knew you don't read (or at least don't understand) your own cites, and sure enough...

Contrary to popular expectation, yet consistent with existing evidence on giving behavior from other fields, we find no evidence that Republicans donate more than Democrats. Instead, partisans differ in the types of organizations to which they donate, a finding that comports with evidence from other fields. Finally, we find that charitable giving, unlike other economic behaviors, is immuneto the effects of short-term political events.

 

[Wilson23]

OK
Republicans ugly on inside

See?! We understand them PERFECTLY!