This is all dependent on how you define "Conservative" and "Liberal".
For instance a liberal in the US is a completely different creature to a UK liberal or a traditional liberal (Locke or Hobbes) meaning someone who believes in freedom and the rights of the individual.
Prompted by a comment my eldest made about Howard Stern last night, I was hypothesising that, in general terms, thinking only goes in 1 direction; from liberal to conservative. Therefore, to be an older liberal one must always have been a liberal. I have nothing but instinct to bare this out but these findings may lend support to my hypothesis. I have certainly observed that, as liberals age they either mature and become more conservative on various issues or their thinking remains immature and unevolved.
The entrenched liberals I've known all lack genuine empathy and usually mistake their confected sympathies for empathy. They are, I suspect, pathologically incapable of empathy. This is observable among the current crop of UK Labour MPs as is their immature, reactionary, activist approach to politics.
Because their credo is power. The explanation for every "wrong" in the world, such as a difference in performance in education, earnings or propensity to commit crime is a power imbalance that only they can correct. They actually believe that if they are given power to correct these imbalances the world will become some sort of nirvana where there are a proportionate number of black, gay women CEOs running FTSE 100 companies.
The fact is that, as the Scandi countries show, the more effort put in to equalise everyone's outcomes the greater the differences in outcomes.
So true! Do conservatives even HAVE the equivalent of a "cancel culture"? It seems to me conservatives are more likely to want liberals to change rather than be canceled. After all, it seems that lived experiences turn more liberals into conservatives than the other way around. Perhaps conservatives are more likely to view liberals as potential allies since many of them started out as liberals or even radicals themselves.
Conservatives strongly believe in freedom of speech so that leaves those dirty tricks to the liberals. Eventually they turn on themselves so just sit back and watch the train wreck. They are their own worst enemies.
You know you are playing with fire, Dr D., implying that Liberals are broken humans? My first thought for why they loathe Conservatives (let's dispense with the lower c[l]ases) was differential power: they are in the ascendant and that could be what drives this anti-empathy. Of course if the boot was on the other foot - if Trump had won then perhaps Liberal empathy would recover and Conservative empathy decline (if not actually cross in the middle). Then we have the Liberal 'openness' to feelings compared to Conservative openness: they could imagine a power swap in more cataclysmic terms (for them) than their 'less imaginative' right-wing brethren.
I personally would like to hear some ideas from you on what makes me either be 'a Centrist' or identify as one? I don't like extremes (which, paradoxically I might actually be imagining as more extreme - so as a kind of closeted leftist which I think I might truly be) and I feel we must all come together and struggle to see why more people aren't instinctively Centrist and even avowedly so? Yes, perhaps they suffer from not being taken seriously. Perhaps Centrists are actually most loathed by BOTH sides as potential deserters - too promiscuous (to 'good' workable ideas) for their safety?
This is all dependent on how you define "Conservative" and "Liberal".
For instance a liberal in the US is a completely different creature to a UK liberal or a traditional liberal (Locke or Hobbes) meaning someone who believes in freedom and the rights of the individual.
Indeed. A "traditional" liberal would be right-of-center in America today.
Prompted by a comment my eldest made about Howard Stern last night, I was hypothesising that, in general terms, thinking only goes in 1 direction; from liberal to conservative. Therefore, to be an older liberal one must always have been a liberal. I have nothing but instinct to bare this out but these findings may lend support to my hypothesis. I have certainly observed that, as liberals age they either mature and become more conservative on various issues or their thinking remains immature and unevolved.
The entrenched liberals I've known all lack genuine empathy and usually mistake their confected sympathies for empathy. They are, I suspect, pathologically incapable of empathy. This is observable among the current crop of UK Labour MPs as is their immature, reactionary, activist approach to politics.
I believe that it was Winston Churchill that said "A young man who is not liberal has no heart, but an old man who is not conservative has no brain"
Because their credo is power. The explanation for every "wrong" in the world, such as a difference in performance in education, earnings or propensity to commit crime is a power imbalance that only they can correct. They actually believe that if they are given power to correct these imbalances the world will become some sort of nirvana where there are a proportionate number of black, gay women CEOs running FTSE 100 companies.
The fact is that, as the Scandi countries show, the more effort put in to equalise everyone's outcomes the greater the differences in outcomes.
So true! Do conservatives even HAVE the equivalent of a "cancel culture"? It seems to me conservatives are more likely to want liberals to change rather than be canceled. After all, it seems that lived experiences turn more liberals into conservatives than the other way around. Perhaps conservatives are more likely to view liberals as potential allies since many of them started out as liberals or even radicals themselves.
Conservatives strongly believe in freedom of speech so that leaves those dirty tricks to the liberals. Eventually they turn on themselves so just sit back and watch the train wreck. They are their own worst enemies.
Of course, anyone who actually knows "liberals" knows exactly how nasty they are.
I'm reminded of my wife's friend who always refers to the Tories as the 'nasty party'. Classic projection.
Yet, many American conservatives view the GOP as the "stupid party". Always eager to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
You know you are playing with fire, Dr D., implying that Liberals are broken humans? My first thought for why they loathe Conservatives (let's dispense with the lower c[l]ases) was differential power: they are in the ascendant and that could be what drives this anti-empathy. Of course if the boot was on the other foot - if Trump had won then perhaps Liberal empathy would recover and Conservative empathy decline (if not actually cross in the middle). Then we have the Liberal 'openness' to feelings compared to Conservative openness: they could imagine a power swap in more cataclysmic terms (for them) than their 'less imaginative' right-wing brethren.
I personally would like to hear some ideas from you on what makes me either be 'a Centrist' or identify as one? I don't like extremes (which, paradoxically I might actually be imagining as more extreme - so as a kind of closeted leftist which I think I might truly be) and I feel we must all come together and struggle to see why more people aren't instinctively Centrist and even avowedly so? Yes, perhaps they suffer from not being taken seriously. Perhaps Centrists are actually most loathed by BOTH sides as potential deserters - too promiscuous (to 'good' workable ideas) for their safety?
Of course they are broken, sometimes with good reason.
As for "extremes" how would you define that ? On the average?
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