How do you know that republicans have failed at governing, and at being just basic, responsible members of society? They would rather promote symbols than deal with reality.
-They'd rather promote the stock market than deal with a collapsed economy and income/wealth inequality.
-They'd rather promote the stock market than deal with a collapsed economy and income/wealth inequality.
-They'd rather talk about a wall than deal with citizenship and human rights.
-They'd rather be seen in photos shaking hands with despotic leaders than sitting down with leaders of the democratic world to provide leadership and problem-solving to address real crises to mankind.
-They'd rather be seen in photos shaking hands with despotic leaders than sitting down with leaders of the democratic world to provide leadership and problem-solving to address real crises to mankind.
-They's rather pretend that wearing masks diminish their freedom than deal with th fact that hundreds of thousands are dying and millions are sick and they have no idea where to start to fix it, and that wearing masks keeps them and everyone else safer.
-They'd rather pretend that kneeling before the flag is some sort of patriotic insult than acknowledge that under that flag some people are still treated as less than human and are killed at will by the police or even self-important, self-justified whites.
-They'd rather stand in front of churches holding bibles rather than open that bible and read that violence and oppression that they used to break up peaceful protesters asserting their rights runs contrary to everything that Bible stands for.
Weak minds with no convictions, no knowledge, and no ability for independent, critical thinking require symbols for visual aides to show them what their alleged beliefs and values are.
Therefore, rank and file conservatives are like children who haven't learned to read, but see pictures in books and make up the story as they go along.
And they have self-willed themselves into ignorance, denial, self-affirmation and self-validation such that they'd rather be told what to do and think by those they believe are god-sent superiors, and follow along obediently rather that seek out clarity and truth for themselves.
It's deeper than intellectual laziness. It's primative, underdeveloped mentality and psyche that completely lacks curiosity and desire to learn.
And so they believe it is their grateful duty and god given responsibility to be used as cannon fodder for the conservative elites who trample on them like trash blowing in the streets.
And as for the conservative elites, they are too busy lying to themselves to notice that the country they want back never existed, and even the country that they thought they were governing isn't the same country they think it is.
Everything has changed, and they have no idea where they are or what they're doing.
Conservatives congregating in Tulsa today place on full display everything weak, wrong, counter-productive, and self-destructive about conservatism today.
Conservatives congregating in Tulsa today place on full display everything weak, wrong, counter-productive, and self-destructive about conservatism today.
And so this is why conservatism will die. It won't happen tomorrow, next week or next year. But their condition is terminal, and it's because they've spent decades ignoring the symptoms, avoiding treatment, and are completely disinterested in coming to grips with reality.
That is conservatism today. And, that's why for them there are few tomorrows.
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