We just want to deny people abortions, not experience racism.
We just want to pay no taxes and let infrastructure crumble; we still want weed to be legal.
We want to be able to subjugate women, not pay for war profiteers.
We just hate gays, not black people.
We just want jobs; why are all these billionaires fans of our party?
See the thing about leftism is that it’s usually internally consistent. Authoritarianism cannot be internally consistent. Nobody wants ALL of the things fascism claims to represent; in many ways it’s not even possible.
Nobody wants ALL of the things fascism claims to represent; in many ways it’s not even possible.
Because it’s not a thinking ideology, it’s a feeling ideology. This has been studied and proven that conservatives lean more reactive and emotionally sensitive.
See, the human brain doesn’t work the way most people think it does, we live with the misconception that we use our brains to decode the world, to solve problems and figure out solutions and analyze situations.
This is NOT what your brain is doing. Right now, and at all times, your brain is scanning how you feel, all your physical and emotional sensations, and it’s constantly creating stories to explain those feelings, ever shifting and constantly reporting these subtle ideas for why you are experiencing things.
About 100,000 years ago this was a fantastic survival tool. If you see huge paw-prints by the watering hole, you will figure out in your head why you’re scared, you will invent a simulated future where the creature that lives nearby will eat you, so you avoid that watering hole.
Now our world is massively complicated, but our brains are still wired to do the same thing. It takes an emotion or sensation and just wraps a story around it with ease, and the funniest part is the story doesn’t have to make sense, it’s just how the brain assembles information and synthesizes results. This is why you have anti-vax doctors and nurses and scientists who suddenly become Flat Earthers. They aren’t using logic and reason, they are scared of something and their brain supply the rationalization. Be it a huge paw print, or a newspaper headline about climate change, it makes people feel the same thing, and react the same way.
Scared of everything, mostly within themselves, which is so abhorrent, they can not countenance the very things they fear are themselves. Hence the infinite, horrific projection.
Even ignoring that, “leftism” is a little too broad of a term in this context. There’s too many conflicting ideologies that agree with each other 90% of the way.
That’s still not like the right, though. That’s more a mish mash of ideas that make no sense together whatsoever. It’s hard to square what the gospels are on about with having billionaires around at all, for example.
Conservative viewpoints:
We just want to deny people abortions, not experience racism.
We just want to pay no taxes and let infrastructure crumble; we still want weed to be legal.
We want to be able to subjugate women, not pay for war profiteers.
We just hate gays, not black people.
We just want jobs; why are all these billionaires fans of our party?
See the thing about leftism is that it’s usually internally consistent. Authoritarianism cannot be internally consistent. Nobody wants ALL of the things fascism claims to represent; in many ways it’s not even possible.
Because it’s not a thinking ideology, it’s a feeling ideology. This has been studied and proven that conservatives lean more reactive and emotionally sensitive.
See, the human brain doesn’t work the way most people think it does, we live with the misconception that we use our brains to decode the world, to solve problems and figure out solutions and analyze situations.
This is NOT what your brain is doing. Right now, and at all times, your brain is scanning how you feel, all your physical and emotional sensations, and it’s constantly creating stories to explain those feelings, ever shifting and constantly reporting these subtle ideas for why you are experiencing things.
About 100,000 years ago this was a fantastic survival tool. If you see huge paw-prints by the watering hole, you will figure out in your head why you’re scared, you will invent a simulated future where the creature that lives nearby will eat you, so you avoid that watering hole.
Now our world is massively complicated, but our brains are still wired to do the same thing. It takes an emotion or sensation and just wraps a story around it with ease, and the funniest part is the story doesn’t have to make sense, it’s just how the brain assembles information and synthesizes results. This is why you have anti-vax doctors and nurses and scientists who suddenly become Flat Earthers. They aren’t using logic and reason, they are scared of something and their brain supply the rationalization. Be it a huge paw print, or a newspaper headline about climate change, it makes people feel the same thing, and react the same way.
Scared of everything, mostly within themselves, which is so abhorrent, they can not countenance the very things they fear are themselves. Hence the infinite, horrific projection.
You should see hexbear.
Even ignoring that, “leftism” is a little too broad of a term in this context. There’s too many conflicting ideologies that agree with each other 90% of the way.
That’s still not like the right, though. That’s more a mish mash of ideas that make no sense together whatsoever. It’s hard to square what the gospels are on about with having billionaires around at all, for example.
That’s more “leftism” than leftism. Tankies are a whole nother animal.