Comments by "sharper68" (@sharper68) on "Saagar Enjeti: QAnon Supporters MELT DOWN As Biden Takes Office. TRUMP Is To Blame" video.

@bearyhot I can list the good qualities of conservatives, I needed to understand them in more detail to better communicate with them. Most do not overtly back white supremacy but end up tacitly supporting it because they stand beside actual hard core racists who also contribute to the narrative. From an outsiders perspective Sherry's opinion has some generic merit. Conservativism is literally about group think, conformity and promotion of the status quo. This is easily confused as racism when the status quo has deep racist underpinnings from our past that in living memory were the standard and have not been erased. I disagree with her that all conservative are morons, most of just unsophisticated or poorly informed on key issues but they are not innately stupid or greedy. Their leaders consistently represent the worst traits of the group. I would argue that these conservatives leaders either cynically say stupid things to appeal to the base or have been convinced of nonsense themselves. The people who really understand the platform and what the GOP actually fights for are pretty bad people and are consistently greedy or directly seek policy that enriches their ingroup as a focus. Most conservatives are not that brand of fail. They are otherwise good people that have swept up by terrible leaders because their primary focus is continuity and moving toward a rosy picture of some imagined past they idealize. That is what the GOP sells. They have been tricked and misdirected by empty wedge issues and overt misinformation about those they oppose as not just in opposition but as evil. Any group that radically demonizes the another does so to bind them closer and helps the individual dismiss the ideas of others as wrong before evaluation. This is a 2 for 1 as it effectively strawman's opposing policy while satisfying a deep need to belong that is desired by the conservative mind. In the case of policy I do not see the two groups as equal in the veracity of what they demand. The conservatives have become overt tools of corporates lackeys' as have those who worship establishment democrats. Both these political leadership's would focus on identity nonsense over change in pursuit of the stasis that their donors love. One party has independent non corporately owned leadership and one does not. Until the conservatives steak some ground away from the corporatists they will consistently be called greedy and racist by outsiders because of who owns them and a blind need to defend broken things just because they are a legacy. There is a strong as of yet unanswered desire among the conservative electorate to change this dynamic. The Tea party and more recently their broad support for Trump shows a deep desire to move away from the status quo of the old school establishment republican leadership. This is clear recognition their existing leaders have been deeply problematic even before the orange man baby came along to break the republican mold and throw them into chaos.
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