What I Can't Process is the number of people who fell for the

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19. To oppose Democrats. Seriously, they've been trained as attack dogs,

with their full compliance, but to the point that opposing anything that whiffs of liberalism is their strongest, really only remaining ideology. Conservatism is a gut reaction without an established intellectual basis, very unlike liberalism. What few conservative principles people like Bill Buckley tried to establish were destroyed by the plutocrats they got in the way of.

But it's important to realize:

Most did NOT fall for the con.

Most pretended/believed voting for him was about reestablishing responsible courts and stopping runaway liberalism that threatens democracy and freedom.

Most understand that much of what they're promoting is lies, but they regard them as footballs that are handed off to them to loyally grab and run with.

Everyone should read about conservative personality and how it plays out and is used in politics. The conservatives' typically darker view of humanity and of the world and fear/resistance to change must once have been very valuable in providing ballast to societies, to protecting villages from predators in tall grasses and strangers carrying diseases.

But it's far less compatible with the cooperations required by liberal democracy and a crowded, very diverse world where strange people flow around the planet by the millions every day. Our world and ways of living are now changing more each decade than they did for 20,000 years, so for conservatives constant uncertainty and anxiety is also a way of life.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.