Why are Republicans such dicks?

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14. I believe

That their mother's followed a rigid schedule in formula feeding them rather than breast feeding on demand. This was the recommended practice a few generations ago an ng conservatives who believed that feeding babies on demand would spoil them. The babies learned that the world was unpredictable, unresponsive and basically scary. Combined with an authoritarian parenting style in which the parents used power assertive discipline to regulate children's behavior through force. My way or the highway and I'll give you something to cry about. They learned to mind to avoid being punished but learned to be sneaky. They didn't internalize a sense of right and wrong because the source of morality was external to them: the punishment of their parents and eventually the wrath of the evangelical God. So, they would behave to avoid being punished but if they thought they could get away with it they did. Ethics are what you do when no one is watching, and for them if they believed no one was watching they thought they would get away with it. Through their fear they learned to resent those who had an actual moral anchor and learned to feel better about themselves by making fun of them. They are xenophobic because they have learned the way to feel better about themselves is to degrade others. The smug hypocrisy is their attempt to display their virtue to their fellow tribe members for external validation. Their thinking becomes so compartmentalized and fear driven that they do not even recognize their own inconsistencies and hypocrisies.