I just went after an old friend of mine.

[Hortensis]

55. Nope. We'll stop the 30 million who push for Armageddon - because we have to.

SoapBox, I was surprised to finally (after living here a decade or more) to understand that some of the willing "victims" around here are cheerfully expecting God's retribution on the greedy, even as they continue funnel more and more wealth to them, in part because some of them are genuinely deserving. If some weren't, why would they have "earned" so much?

WTHeck? for sure. I wondered that so much that after a while I sat down and read what psychologists had to say about it. The equality of all men under the law is a very much a liberal-personality notion. It doesn't matter that our nation was founded on this principle -- most conservative-personality people think that's just plain ridiculous and disproven by the "naturally just world" they believe in. As in, people really do tend to get what they have earned, whether it's cancer or riches, or being railroaded into jail.

Most of all, conservatives are by nature comfortable with inequality, not just kicking down as I once assumed, but also kissing up. So foreign to me, I had to read, with occasional wow!s, to get it.

Explains why they're such a threat to many sections of the Constitution, too. They do not believe in them.