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In reply to the discussion: Black Farmer Calls Out Liberal Racism In Powerful Facebook Message [View all]Caliman73
(11,767 posts)Conservatives strive to hold on to something that "worked before". We know what the wealthy conservatives want. They want to use the commons like the rest of us, but they also want to retain the wealth they have and gain more power so that they do not have to mix with the rest of us. Poor conservatives are a little harder to figure out. They seem to want to go back to a time that made more sense to them but the reality is that they have been poor their entire lives with maybe slightly more ability to openly look down on Black people or gay people, or immigrants. Yet they persist to hold these ideas which have worked for the rich (face it, everything works for the rich), but has never worked for them. They are dependent on government programs, but spit in the face of the very government that keeps them from dying.
Liberals, we try to grow but it can be difficult. We get set in some of our ways too, until the evidence becomes overwhelming and we move forward. Like you said, we are imperfect people but we tend to strive to be better, which is a never ending quest, while our fellow citizens in the Red states who subscribe to the conservative philosophy stagnate and look backward for their answers.