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ScazarMeltex posted...

This basically. Conservatives love hierarchical power structures because they believe that one day they could be at the top, when realistically they will always be the ones at the bottom.

I don't think you understand their motivations, if you just assume they expect to ever be at the top.

They generally may believe that you can rise to a higher station, perhaps even that it is simpler than it is, but it's not like a small town mechanic expects to be on the level of Bezos. Though he might have aspirations of owning his own business one day, which is a relatively achievable goal.

It is more like they don't generally begrudge the success of those above them, even when it gets to a gratuitous level. The ideal being you get to the level you achieve with your, and your family's, own competence. If you are Bezos-rich, its because you and/or your family earned it, so you deserve it. If you are dirt poor, it is because either you fucked up along the way or you are flawed intrinsically.

Perhaps a bit simplistic, since it may not acknowledge explicit and irrational discrimination, but I can't disagree with the notion entirely.

Conservatives are generally more comfortable with that, compared to progressives who may be more inclined to supplant the hierachy to establish something more equitable.