It’s not that they don’t listen. It’s that their brains aren’t built to think critically about anything. They are built to obey, but they’re also narcissists.
That’s why conservatives go wild for Trump. From the conservative’s point of view, Trump lets them FEEL LIKE THEY ARE OBEYING by doing whatever they want.
He doesn’t just give them permission or cover to be awful; Trump makes these people feel like they’re helping him when they do shitty and selfish things.
(This is also why they love cops who hurt people and soldiers who commit war crimes. They get to vicariously OBEY while also BREAKING THE RULES TO FEEL GOOD. Best of both worlds to them, like taking an upper and a downer at the same time.)
I guess that makes conservatism a social speedball.
I think you have it backward. These people are all “independent free thinkers” who think the same thing Fox told them to think.
They don’t want to obey; they’re Confederates! They’re rebels and cowboys and other term for rugged, free individualists. These people, who have been robbed of even the ability to think, let alone do, by themselves after decades of propagandizing and near-nonexistent education. They feel like they’re flipping off the establishment. That’s why MAGAs kept talking about “drain the swamp”, because they thought “far right” was just a new angle to attack more decorous politicians. They aren’t helping Trump out of some unctuous, perverse desire to be stepped on. They’re helping Trump because they’re too dumb to release that their party IS the establishment.
It’s not that they don’t listen. It’s that their brains aren’t built to think critically about anything. They are built to obey, but they’re also narcissists.
That’s why conservatives go wild for Trump. From the conservative’s point of view, Trump lets them FEEL LIKE THEY ARE OBEYING by doing whatever they want.
He doesn’t just give them permission or cover to be awful; Trump makes these people feel like they’re helping him when they do shitty and selfish things.
(This is also why they love cops who hurt people and soldiers who commit war crimes. They get to vicariously OBEY while also BREAKING THE RULES TO FEEL GOOD. Best of both worlds to them, like taking an upper and a downer at the same time.)
I guess that makes conservatism a social speedball.
I think you have it backward. These people are all “independent free thinkers” who think the same thing Fox told them to think.
They don’t want to obey; they’re Confederates! They’re rebels and cowboys and other term for rugged, free individualists. These people, who have been robbed of even the ability to think, let alone do, by themselves after decades of propagandizing and near-nonexistent education. They feel like they’re flipping off the establishment. That’s why MAGAs kept talking about “drain the swamp”, because they thought “far right” was just a new angle to attack more decorous politicians. They aren’t helping Trump out of some unctuous, perverse desire to be stepped on. They’re helping Trump because they’re too dumb to release that their party IS the establishment.