Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

[Ebadlun]

26. This is interesting

And I hope you'll be kind to a British guest, but the US conservative mindset intrigues me.

The British one is just naked nimby-ism, xenophobia and tax-avoidance, not very subtle. But US Conservatives self-identify as Conservatives in a way that UK ones don't, and purport to have a coherent belief system that can be opposed to liberalism, and it's become refined to an increasingly narrow set of axioms - anti-abortion, anti-gay, small-government I think are the big three, with the fourth, anti-non-white, finding ever more creative ways to disguise itself.

Even those three contradict - how can you be anti-government and pro-state and still want the government to clamp down on gayness at the federal level?

There are others - pro-military, pro-fidelity, pro-constitution, anti-drugs, pro-states-rights, but these seem more negotiable. Newt can get away with wanting to sack judges he doesn't like and still be the conservative Messiah (they should know, they've followed a few).

Essentially, looking for inconsistencies in Conservative thought is like picking holes in the plots of summer blockbuster movies - it's not the point. It appeals to something visceral and it sells.