Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Rep. Mia Love slams President Trump in concession speech" video.

  1. Conservatism, by its very core nature, is an absolutist, black-and-white way of thinking. Conservatism is rooted in the past; it is hidebound, dogmatic, intellectually incurious, unwilling to explore and examine differing viewpoints, and completely, often rabidly dismissive of evidence to the contrary of its beliefs and core principles. "Conservative" people tend to be adamantly, willfully, often venomously ignorant of the truth, because the truth offends them. They seem to be hard-wired into this obstinacy, to the point of pathological obsession. This is why repubicans are simply incapable of governing, because Republicans aren't interested in governing, they want to rule, and there's a big difference between the two. Ruling, and authoritarianism, lies at the heart of what conservatism has always been about...
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