The liberal need to "do something"

A woman ---liberal?-- on a Russian news program took action to protest Putin  --she risked life and 15 years in prison--  and his aggression in Ukraine while you were rambling on.

Animal farming culture children  have lived with animals all of their lives over last 1000's of years.

Dude, you are a prude and need awaken and smell the truth about life, as all children of any age need to.

I just don’t think that’s it. The simple fact is that it’s always easier to give something than to take it away. Conservatism is about conservation, so it will always be the position on the losing end of change. 

it will be taught to children either by their parents or by the schools.

Libs always fight for incremental change, and have a vague understanding of how to get there. And will take temporary concessions to help get there. For a very basic example think about how many political careers got ruined in order to pass Obamacare. For something more serious, think about how illegal immigration deeply harms Democrats whenever they are in power but they are nonetheless lenient about it every time. Why? Because they seem to correctly realize that the demographic change is more important for them in the long run than the few marginal seat that will be lost in the next election. I just don't see that from the other side. They had seven years of prep time and didn't have a plan ready to repeal Obamacare. Again Obamacare is a really banal example but I think it demonstrates how hapless the GOP is. The only issue from my lifetime I can think of off the top of my head where it seems that the right wing has essentially won is guns, and in that case there was a powerful interest group that took the lead in that fight, not the party. The NRA fought like the left, and they won

Yea I still don't think liberalism as a whole as really grappled with the reality that much of your identity is just chosen for you, and that it's actually healthy for that to happen. Teenagers have always tried to identify themselves in some way as they grapple with their identities as they come into man/womanhood but man do I miss the classic teenage rebellion instead of thinking too much about gender. I wonder if some of what these kids are saying comes from something real, though. I have a theory that processed foods and endocrine disrupters have basically poisoned American kids. IDK how anyone can see pictures or videos of high school students from the 80s or before and not think they look unbelievably stronger and healthier, more present. Maybe a lot of these kids don't feel like men or women, feel so far off of the paragons of man and womanhood that they don't even wanna try. The smartphone didn't help either imo.

The highlighted bit is particularly dangerous imo. I think convincing people that they are victims or oppressed pretty much just makes them assholes. I know I have dabbled in the white victimhood thing a bit (look at these mean things people I dont know are saying online :(((((((( ) and it's just not good. So immature and bad for you, can't imagine focusing my entire identity around that sort of thing.

For the past year or so, I have been investigating the causes of political ideology, and why it is that the left seems to have more will to power than the right. I think we can chalk yet another point to the idea that most ideological differences come from personality differences that lead to differences in worldview. One such difference is how groups react to problems in the world.

Right wingers often mock the left for so easily going over to what ever narrative is popular in "the current year."

And while much of the advocacy is indeed worthy of criticism (like changing your Facebook profile picture to support whatever is on TV, as if that makes a difference) they mock this at their own peril. Because ultimately this kind of behavior comes from an ever present feeling among many liberals that they must DO SOMETHING!

We can see quite clearly, in the United States at least, how much more impact leftists have on almost all important institutions. They have even captured the upper echelons of the military at this point.

Whereas the conservative when confronted with the negatively of the world turns inward, or attempts to address things locally. While this is personally beneficial--conservatives have far lower incident of mental illness than liberals do, have higher self reported levels of happiness, have more children, etc--this is a severe detriment in the marketplace of ideas.

That conservatives have as much success as they do in the United States owes mostly to the truly insane ideas coming from the top 5% most progressive members of the left successfully used as rallying points such as cutting off mentally ill fifteen year olds breasts, forcing two year olds to wear masks for eight hours a day, or decrying all white people as evil. Conservatives own ideas about how the culture ought to be are scattered and were mostly defeated decades ago, and its difficult to imagine a less popular economic platform than cutting entitlements in such a fantastically wealthy (and unequal) country. 

I think what we currently call "the right" and "the left" correlate to a divide that is grounded in on biological/psychosocial predisposition --- which are prior to any political ideology, or that ideology's embodiment at any particular point in time.  The words we use to describe each such embodiment vary as do the meanings associated with those words (for example, "conservative" includes "populist" now whereas it did not before 2016).  But the divide hasn't changed. 

  Particularly among millenials and gen-z, because they simultaneously (a) know nothing other than the here and now and (b) incurred no personal costs to creating the universe of good in the status quo, they take it for granted.  So, when they experience something they don't like, they understand it as "oppression" and blame the system from which they came.  Of course, their current struggle can't be the result of their own life choices.  So, by taking on the purported "struggles" of others, they give their lives meaning and orient their ire against the status quo itself. 

This is important, because of how existentially meaningless life in modernity actually is.  If you're a chaotic disaster of a person, you don't have your life in order and you can't even make your bed in the morning, you also probably don't have a family, you likely never will, most likely won't even be able to maintain a committed relationship with another person, much less initiate one, which if you even did you'd probably screw it up and blame it on the other person.  Without God, organized religion, community institutions or other meaningful social connections, what even is there?  A job, that's probably unenjoyable and unfulfilling, pays a slave wage at best and entails no realistic opportunity for advancement, much less retirement?   Why wouldn't you want to distract yourself with some nonsensical pursuit of "social justice" when that's the monster you're trying to make sure stays locked in the closet?  

People need meaning to their lives.  They need a purpose.  Social justice and progress supply it.  That's why rational conversations with people on the progressive left can't even be had; their advocacy for those objectives is too intertwined with their own sense of themselves for them to be able to consider the possibility that they might be wrong.  

• First, it is irrational to think that by simply doing "something," the situation will improve.  Doing nothing is often the better course of action.  Careful consideration must be undertaken before acting, and the bigger the action proposed the more carefully it needs to be considered.  
  
• Second, the world is full of problems.  The fact that problems are identified does not mean that the system needs to be changed from the top down, or even if it does that progressives are the people to do it.  History is replete with examples of catastrophe, brought on unnecessarily by the stupidity of precipitous, myopic action --- however well intended.  The gender discussions we currently have as a society will fall into this category, in about twenty years.  But it will take a generation to realize how stupid all of that is before it's corrected. 
  
•  Third, the right's challenge should be to figure out a way to get the postmodern progressives to have a stake in the system.  Expanding opportunities for home ownership would probably be a good place to start.  That, and promoting marriage between two people.  
  

This brings me back to a point I made above, which is that right-wingers need to give left-wingers a chance to earn a stake in the status quo.  That proposition reminds me of Edmund Burke's recommendation that conservatives "change, to conserve."  For example, while Burke didn't advocate for gay marriage, David Cameron did based on the fact that if you deny marriage to an entire category of people for whatever reason, at least a cohort of those people are going to question not only the institution of marriage but the very proposition of a family based around it.  The greater good is served by preserving the nature of marriage, but changing the form of its composition.  In so doing, the institution survives; remaining as the foundational unit of society.  

as a Christian who believes that everyone has a soul and moral agency it does genuinely disgust me, and makes it clear that no matter what they might say they don't hold blacks and whites to the same standards. Guilt for crimes white people commit not only transfer across generations but across families, whereas contemporary crime from a black person is excused

I think that demonstrates an inherent flaw with the "marketplace of ideas" and liberal democracy.

Why have such a concept when a calm, balanced, and logical approach to preserving society will sound less appealing to the masses than some delusions of grandeur?

Whereas the conservative when confronted with the negatively of the world turns inward, or attempts to address things locally.

Perfectly said. Liberty always devolves into "liberty to do whatever I want i.e drugs, porn, etc"

In 2020 in particular it was beyond obvious that many of these people were using Black Lives Matter and other forms of activism to fill the God and community shaped holes in their hearts. The mental relationship many white liberals seem to have with black people is.....extremely toxic. 

 . . . blocking puberty and permanently messing up the reproductive and endocrine systems of thousands of children (and surgically operating on the sex organs of some) is vastly worse than the disease of some people feeling uncomfortable about their bodies going through puberty.

Isn't it interesting how white liberals treat the quality of being black as some kind of unique, race-based original sin that only the Democratic party can provide salvation for?  The messiah complex they all seem to have is really bizarre.  It's tempting to write that off as just performative, but I think it's more than that for them. 

Perfectly said. Liberty always devolves into "liberty to do whatever I want i.e drugs, porn, etc"

not "always"

when does it not

had changed it to a Ukrainian flag as I drove by I burst out laughing. It’s just so predictable. 

Isn't it interesting how white liberals treat the quality of being black as some kind of unique, race-based original sin that only the Democratic party can provide salvation for?  The messiah complex they all seem to have is really bizarre.  It's tempting to write that off as just performative, but I think it's more than that for them.  

It's a predictable pattern.  Gay boys are especially vulnerable targets for this witchcraft, which is why it's personal for me.  Don't like your life as a 7-14 year old?  Well, you must have been born in the wrong body!  As a therapeutic measure, let's give you the same drugs that the state of Texas uses to chemically castrate violent sex offenders, pump you full of opposite-sex hormones and praise you for overcoming your "struggle" with "gender dysphoria." 

What people fail to realize is the fact that something is held out as "therapeutic" does not make it so.  The approach with hormones and "reassignment surgery" is identical to that taken by psychiatrists who forced lobotomies and involuntary sterilization on the feeble minded, and castration on non-heterosexuals.  

it makes me wonder why nobody was flying the syrian flag when those refugees were fleeing from RUSSIAN bombs

People should just go to church instead of centering themselves around politics

true, but it leads many people down dangerous paths just because you have liberty to do so

We don’t think enough about how human instincts evolved in a VERY different social environment. I doubt the hunter gatherer ever heard of a conflict that they didn’t have a personal stake in somehow. Signaling support for one side or the other actually bore risks and costs, and siding with the side that ultimately won would be a benefit.

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