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(Incidentally, they half-jokingly say that "liberals are conservatives who have been mugged and conservatives are liberals who have been arrested": both sides a
by mdp2021 2y ago
(Incidentally, they half-jokingly say that "liberals are conservatives who have been mugged and conservatives are liberals who have been arrested": both sides appear to be heartfeltly tied to a freedom-from perspective.)
- mdp2021 2y ago(Corrige: I swapped the labels in the rush (it is of course "conservatives are liberals who have been mugged, and liberals are conservatives who have been arrested") but you get the point.)
- eddythompson80 2y agoI was gonna say. The joke is usually that a liberal is a “conservative that’s been assaulted by institutional power” and a conservative is a “liberal that’s been assaulted by a perceived peer” The funny thing is I know someone who is literally that. She grew up in a very conservative rural family, but when I knew her (in her early 20s) she was “super liberal”. Like the classic “basic liberal” type person in every way. 6 years later (in 2021) a homeless dude chased her downtown. She WAS traumatized. Like seriously traumatized. A month later I learned that she started carrying a gun and wouldn’t stop talking about Washington gun laws and how “she’s totally a liberal” but liberals are wrong about the homeless, gun laws, the police, and law and order.