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  • That’s not the point. People aren’t saying that they’d rather have Trump in charge. The point is things will never get better if everyone keeps unquestioningly giving their votes to the Democrats regardless of how little the democrats represent their interests. The only real way most people have of making a political party change is by withholding their votes until that party changes in order to regain the votes.






  • I’m not exclusively talking about the USA. I live in the UK myself and I still think that most religious people are somewhat conservative. Doing charity doesn’t make you not right wing, in fact some would argue that charity is a right wing concept because right wingers believe that things like feeding the homeless should be done by charitable individuals and organisations, rather than it being something that the government should be fixing (like many left-wing people believe).

    There are many different flavours of conservatism, not all of them are rabid screaming morons who publicly admit to their bigotry, many are much quieter and subtle.



  • Yes of course they do. I imagine the stats would be similar in most countries. There are two types of conservatives:

    1. The uneducated/ignorant, they choose conservative ideology because they are confused by different people and are afraid of any change they can see happening.

    2. Those who have financial incentives. They know that their ideology is wrong and stupid, but they just don’t care. They are only interested in gains for themselves and their family and cronies. Also known as the “fuck you I’ve got mine” types.

    Everyone else is just some combination of the two.

    It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that both of those types would be against higher education. The uneducated/stupid are afraid of educated/intelligent people, and are confused when someone they know comes back from college changed from how they were when they left. The ones with a financial incentive are smart enough to know that education generally results in people becoming more left-leaning, and they also know that enough left-leaning people in a population can cause genuine political change – change that might hurt the bottom line of the rich – naturally they want to avoid that.