People on the right frequently make remarks like:
Libs think that by the government doing certain things they can solve the problems in society, whereas Conservatives are a little more grounded and realize that we have a thing called human nature. So when someone goes and shoots up a school Libs want to go and on about what a bad time this person had in life and then want to save his soul. Whereas Conservatives say “just lock him up for life and be done with it”. Libs also want to take my guns and prevent me from protecting myself from people like that. Libs want to say that women should go into pubs alone and never be attacked, when women should just look after themselves and not get drunk in public. You don’t look after yourself you deserve what you get, and no about of regulation or Governmental interference will stop this.
Any reader will undoubtedly have head, or made, similar screes.
However there are several problems with this position.
1) We rarely hear from the Righteous that if their property gets stolen it was their fault, and they should have protected it themselves. They rarely say that the police have no business to be concerned about it, and government should stay out of it, unless they are libertarians and happy for you to only get the kind of law you can afford. Usually the response is to call for more law and order and more toughness on criminals. Strangely rapists seem ok, that’s the woman’s fault for not being cautious enough… unless the hurt happens to a family member.
2) It seems to me that the Righteous continually think they can fix the problems in society by giving more power to corporations, letting more people have more guns, or suppressing gays, blacks, women, refugees and so on. They tend to insist on personal responsibility for, and government regulation of, workers, with no corresponding responsibilities for employers and business.
3) They continually moan that people on their side, like Trump, Kavanaugh, Limbaugh, Fox, Morrison, Abbott etc are being attacked unjustly by ‘libtards’… They cry that their darlings should be free to do whatever they want, irrespective of its truth, its plausibility or whatever. They want protection for them. Whinging is not a one sided activity.
All that most libtards that I know want, is for society to be a bit fairer, a bit more supportive of ordinary people, to stop destroying our environment for profit, and to stop stomping on people because they look like they are a relatively powerless minority. They would also like more people to be able to participate in Government, rather than to reserve that participation to a wealthy elite. But this apparently is too much.
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