Fascinating article on moral underpinnings of political thought
People vote Republican and liberal intellectuals are mystified. For their part, Republicans say that Democrats "just don’t get it." What is this "it" they don’t get?...
What makes People Vote Republican?
What makes People Vote Republican?
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I grew up in the very racist south, and the attitudes of present-day conservatives, and their emotional defensiveness about them, appears to me to descend directly from those conservative values. Loyalty means "we" are better than "them." "Social order" means "our way or the highway."
It took me a good part of my adolescence, in the late fifties, to learn to see beyond that kind of thinking. He's right that I don't get it, and I hope I never get it again.
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I think it comes down to "Us" and "Them": liberals tend to have a more encompassing "Us" than conservatives do.
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