Conservatives/Right-wingers, why do you think liberals believe the way they do?

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If you are ideologically on the right, why do you think liberals and those otherwise on the ideological left believe the way they do? And more importantly,  what makes you so certain of it ?

Telekinetic-Potato · Accepted Answer

I think most liberals are people who follow the heard but craft an identity that's designed to allow them to cosplay as someone who's high agency, very independent from others, unique in some way.

Most liberals suffer from extreme hysteria, they can't hold a conversation with someone if they feel like they might not agree with them because their perception of reality is based on so many views that deep down they know they can't explain that even someone talking about a topic where the two people agree can cause an almost full body reaction just from hearing certain key words.

I mean they're brainwashed. There's no other word for it. It's like mass hypnosis and once you see it you can't unsee how they all react exactly the same ways. Because they're afraid of not being able to function in the world.

That's why social media is so dangerous. People don't understand that when they constantly watch their feed, there is a well studied and developed science behind shaping how a human reacts to specific words or topics, you can control what emotions come at any given situation.

The thing is if you sat down everyone in the country and educated them on what's going on in this country for the last 10 years to a point where everyone understood the same information, it still wouldn't be easy to tell who to vote for right now.

Snakeyes7 · Accepted Answer

I don't think they actually believe a single thing they say, whether they realize it or not.

There's a reason why they spam character assassinating words like "Nazi," "fascist," or any form of -ist or -phobe.

They say these things not because they actually think you are any of these things or even that any of these things are bad in every context (to them, it's justified when whites/men/Christians etc are the targets), but because they know YOU consider them to be objectively bad things. They say them to convince you that you are a bad person for not towing the line. They say them to convince others to not associate with you or to even harm you (Charlie Kirk).

If they actually thought Trump is a Nazi or Fascist (these aren't the same ideologies by the way, but I don't expect leftists to know that), they wouldn't have the balls to act out in the way they do. Trump would have had them all executed, and now couldn't be a better time to do such a thing with such a centralized internet.

In real life, Trump roached out in publicly executing a mass murderer, and is government buddy buddy with Israel, which would have been a massive crater if Trump is anything like they say he is.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

I can't ever be certain with that group of people why they think and do. They are like hot dogs - ya don't know what they're made from.

But seriously I believe that they have cult behavior and that idea isn't so far fetched either. 👿

OldGreyMare · Accepted Answer

All I can say is that conservatism is about common sense. Who in their right mind thinks open borders is a good idea?

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I believe that most voters split over this binary classification:

1. Do you believe that the government should do as much as possible to provide each of us a safety net, so that we are guaranteed that our basic needs will always be satisfied, even though this requires limitations on individual liberties and a more powerful federal government?

OR

2. Do you believe that the government should do as little as necessary for the protection of the citizenry as a whole, guaranteeing us maximum individual liberties, even though this means that the government will not assume responsibility for providing for the needs of individuals?

Once you make that choice, the labels of right/left or conservative/liberal are fairly well set.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

Contemporarily, it’s because we have condoned for too long too many people allowing themselves to be controlled entirely by their feelings. That’s all that remains of leftism. They’re all useless crybabies who demand all of the rewards for hard work and sacrifice without actually doing any hard work and sacrifice. Their parents raised them on participation trophies and stories about how being productive is somehow akin to being a slave. The majority of the system from birth to graduation perpetuates these inverted ideals and coddles them. So they really think they are somehow oppressed when they start hearing “no” for the first time in their lives and don’t automatically get their way just because they scream like the overgrown children that they are.
There was a time when liberalism actually centered around meaningful values. That time has passed.
Modern liberalism is a disease in no uncertain terms.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

I am ideologically on the left, I became aware of that at 15yo or something

At that time, the 90s, my idea of right-wing beliefs was that they were promoting multinational corporations. Which was unacceptable to me because I viewed these corps as transnational powers able to write the rules for governments and people alike. Simultaneously, my idea of left-wing beliefs was that they were trying to contain the aforementioned entities. Which seemed like the right thing to do to me.

That's how my political beliefs started

Later on, I would develop a better understanding of both the left an the right, and I would discover the far-right and the far-left, both being quite different than what I'd later call classic left and classic right.

lightbulb27 · Answer

They actually think and feel they are right. In some cases, they may be. I suspect today, a lot of it is media mind control. What you consume you become.

I can say for me, some of it is emotional and feelings. At one time I slid left, and it was that. I've seen others that become more sensitive and they slide left. Right people are different in their thinking and feeling, more independent, responsible oriented. Left people are relying on the masses to care for them, to make things fair. Right people don't want fair.

etc etc.. but it isn't thinking, it's some kind of deeper emotional division. It isn't religious, I know people left and right within religions. It's not color, it's how people think and feel.

slatyb · Answer

I haven't seen any indication that conservatives in the US think much at all. Their children are dying of measles because they listened to RFK Jr.'s nonsense. Farmers are going broke because of Trump's tariffs and the idiotic war with Iran. Their trailer homes are getting smashed by more and more frequent hurricanes and tornados but global warming is a hoax. Their children are being shot at school but the solution is more guns. They are dying from a lack of medical care or going bankrupt paying for it while Trump and the Republicans cut Medicaid and Medicare.

DonaldDarko · Answer

Im not that much on the right but definitely right of where they are. I think it comes down to them really wanting a world without any of the brutal facts of life in it. If you look to the actual far right like nazis they want fighting and brutality where only the strong and ruthless survive and the strongest and cruelest of those take over. Liberals seem like they hate that jungle narrative but ironically embody it somehow. They want communism where everyone gets hus share. But if there isn't enough foid to go around for 10 k people then 2 k people are killed and cooked into the food rations. Then everyone has enough. You're free government care packages come at the end of the month but they taste a little different and You're not sure why. The government tells you they're extra nutritious this month because of a new state program and to be on the lookout for fascists.

Anonymous · Answer

I have this conversation with my sister. She's a liberal mainly because all her friends are liberal and she follows her friends. But she's still sensible at her core, she's just easily led. She's also got a heart and genuinely wants to help other people. I'm a realist. I distrust just about everyone because i know man is inherently selfish. The wolves would take advantage of my sister ALL DAY if not for people like me. Liberals will change the country. But this country has been been pretty successful for a qtr. millenium. Consevatives just try to pull back on their reigns. Because they have a handful of good ideas. To let them indulge everything would bankrupt the country. And we've already got a bankrupt gov't.

genericname85 · Answer

I think it's a question of fundamental values and what they believe humans to be at the core personality wise. Also I think an overall lack of life experience and often a university background, which coincides with little real life experience as people within academia often life in echo chambers outside of the real work life.

Grond21 · Answer

There a lot of beliefs on the left, but from what I can tell based on what the average (not in a position of power) person on the left says they want, the general motivation is to replace white people, Christianity, and Western Civilization with those they deem to be marginalized. They say it is motivated by compassion.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm a moderate but will answer anyways. Some actually believe the way they do because they were either raised that way or it's just in their nature to believe what they believe in. Some don't actually believe in everything they say they believe in, they go along with the flow as they are too afraid of the left-wing activist mob who will cancel you for not passing their purity test.

NaultD · Answer

I'm a hardcore leftist. How can I help understand any topics?

msc545 · Answer

Your idea of what we do and do not value or feel empathy toward is of course wrong. I'm not surprised that it's wrong given the fact that you're not a liberal and not empathic and also not very bright.

Staximus · Answer

Because they’re naive enough to believe that the people in government have their best interests in mind

In_Trance · Answer

All retards

moddy_the_mod · Answer

Liberals favor items and people away from their inner circle. So they value a mouse in china over their family. It explains their suicidal empathy.

Anonymous · Answer

Many of them are brain washed in college. Also, they may have radical parents that raised them that way.

Anonymous · Answer

Because they can't think for themselves. They are told what to think and they happily comply.

exitseven · Answer

public schools and colleges.

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