Conservative politics is built on disgust

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3. Interesting premise, though I would argue more complexity.

I think that the conservative mind is driven by a need for order in the service of abating fear. I see conservatives as fearing difference where you say that liberals strive to overcome that fear.

I suppose that conservatives want purity (whatever that means) as there is not now, nor has there ever been anything pure. If conservatives wanted purity, they would have never allowed for Donald Trump to be their nominee as he is the furthest thing from purity that has been seen in a long while. Conservatives seek authority to silence their concerns about changing demographics and changing social norms. They seek to quiet the fears that keep them up at night, the idea that they might have to understand something other than their own experience and consider that other view points may be valid.