re: Are People Liberal; or Conservative By Nature?

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There is endless social science on this, mate. Leftism IS based in resentment and entitlement. Conservatism is based in Individual Liberty and personal responsibility. Have you READ and Rousseau or Burke? Marx vs say WFB? I mean, a teen could figure this out.

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This reminds me of Clark in Good Will Hunting to which Will says:

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Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished readin' some Marxian historian -- Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna be convinced of that 'til next month when you get to James Lemon, and then you're gonna be talkin' about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year -- you're gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin' about, you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.

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Using philosophy as the hardened rapier of reason is simply doing it wrong.


The quote also applies to the thread in that the definition of conservative and liberal change constantly. The people running for office modify their "values" based on what they think will bring in the most votes. This jockeying for position has gone on for so long and is so prevalent that any definition of conservative or liberal has to contain a caveat of exactly when the snapshot was taken because two weeks before or two weeks later the people who influence each side's dogma may have changed their mind because it was politically expedient.

We should all be in agreement that LACK of Institutional corruption (comparatively) was a great reason for our historical success.

The manner by which our Institutions have been compromised and corrupted by the organized Left is now our greatest threat. ONE Party overwhelmingly weaponized The State against the populace. One Party seeks to replace our most important American traditions, principles, Ideals and Institutions. FORWARD! The other party is just a bunch of lazy and useless Republicans who can't muster up the energy to fight back and just happy to CONSERVE anything but their power and prestige.

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We should all be in agreement that LACK of Institutional corruption (comparatively) was a great reason for our historical success.

The manner by which our Institutions have been compromised and corrupted by the organized Left is now our greatest threat. ONE Party overwhelmingly weaponized The State against the populace.

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Dude both your parties are equally corrupt. One funneled money from the Ukraine war, the other funneled money through the Iraq war. If you think the right is less corrupt than the left than you are drinking too much of the kool-aid

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The other party is just a bunch of lazy and useless Republicans who can't muster up the energy to fight back and just happy to CONSERVE anything but their power and prestige.

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Which party passed the Patriot Act again? Trying to play this "lesser evil" game is stupid. Both parties are corrupt AF. I'm glad to see their divide and conquer strategy works on you so well though. You should study some psychology on that.

People aren’t born liberal or conservative. Those are social constructs that have nothing to do with biology. It’s really a matter of personality development and personal experience. But deep down, you know that.

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I am conservative on somethings and liberal on others. It is very hard for a party or single idealogy to pigeon-hole me. And that is not by design, but more the product of natural, organic change.

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Which party passed the Patriot Act again?

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Congrats on the continued education

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Are People Liberal; or Conservative By Nature?

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Try good versus evil by nature.

Some conservatives call out other conservatives when they are being evil.

The silence for the majority of liberals calling out evil liberals is almost deafening.

Wasn't voted unanimously by Republicans

Every president since has signed extensions, Government is the problem, period

It's a matter of CONTEXT and DEGREE. When we acknowledge the tragic nature of humanity first as Conservatives do, we inherently understand that corruption is baked into the human recipe. It's inescapable. Thus it becomes a matter of degree.

And if one possesses basic reading skills, intellectual discernment and historical literacy we understand that The Left has a capacity for evil (100 million dead in the last century for instance) that exceeds anything that proponents of Individual Liberty could ever devise.

Bottom line-if you don't think the corrupt Democrat Party and their woke philosophy that controls virtually every major Institution in America is more corrupt than the feckless Republicans, than who am I to disabuse you? I mean what could be more corrupt than destroying the biological fact of two genders? How about weaponizing the judiciary? How about stealing elections? How about villifying all opponents as racist? How about turning the White House into a crime family at the behest of our global enemies? How about weaponizing the IRS? How about Instituting Speech laws? How about killing comedy and rational inquiry in lieu of woke platitudes? How about assisting riots and bloodshed and burning down businesses? How about shooting up the Republican softball game? How about assaulting Republican lawmakers and putting at least one in the hospital? How about destroying our greatest American cities one woke policy at a time?

This idea you have that both parties are EQUALLY culpable is laughable.