• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    It’s because making the world better requires change and conservatives are terrified of everything, especially change.

    Go up to a conservative. Any conservative. And ask them to talk about politics. No other prompt. Just talk about politics. Don’t interrupt them for maybe 5 minutes. They’ll spend at least 95% of their time talking about fear, in some form or another. Conservatism is built upon, and maintained, by fear.

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      13 hours ago

      But its always the dumbest fear.

      Its not like “im worried about some idiot POTUS destroying my livelihood through his own ego and a misunderstanding of economic policy” or “im not going to be able to afford health care when i inevitably get sick”.

      Its always “if you let gay people get married then people will marry their pets and that would be an atrocity because reasons”.