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>You are presuming conservatives think like progressives - where ideology is paramount - it's NOT and they DON'T. One has only to look at recent events [1][2][
by bduerst 5y ago
>You are presuming conservatives think like progressives - where ideology is paramount - it's NOT and they DON'T.
One has only to look at recent events [1][2][3] to see that is not true at all. I think the main difference is that conservatives do not consider their opinions to be ideological, but fact, as is evident with Covid vaccination statistics.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-organizers-plan-convoys-support-canadian-truckers-2022-02-11/ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-organizers-plan-co...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1057344561/anti-vaccine-activists-political-conference-trump-republicans https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1057344561/anti-vaccine-activ...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-sports/trump-urges-nfl-to-ban-players-kneeling-during-anthem-idUSKCN1C11LT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-sports/trump-ur...
- true_religion 5y agoI don’t think progressives consider themselves to be ideological either. On all the topics where progressive values have won out (abortion, trans and gay rights) progressives view themselves as being unbiased and damn near apathetic (e.g. the messaging of it doesn’t affect us, thus we don’t care to make laws against it).