Poll of the Day > The Irony: Shit a conservative posts (Part 1)

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Of course he believes hes the one driven by love, and wants to be free.

Conservatism has basically been defined as being an ideology of fear and anxiety, especially since 9/11. Fear of change, fear of different cultures, fear of unlikely events. Antivaxxers especially are driven by multiple levels of fear.

faramir77 posted...

Antivaxxers especially are driven by multiple levels of fear.

And yet characterize wanting to actually do something about the worst public health crisis in a century as "fearmongering."

The most annoying thing is that their fear is very justifiable. The fact that they've been able to watch this vaccine emerge in real time in response to a crisis has been a really weird experience for people that don't understand how the process usually works (and why), and I fully understand that being unnerving. Instead of trying to understand the situation better so they can feel more comfortable with it, though, they accuse everyone else of being the scared ones, double down on anything that suggests that they're doing the right thing and are not acting out of fear at all, and refuse to change their mind because they've built that refusal into their personal identity.

HornedLion posted...

Of course he believes hes the one driven by love, and wants to be free.

Just to be clear, you are suggesting a conservative posted that believing they were the one who "loved"? This is hard to believe, all my conservative relatives just post hate on facebook.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Just to be clear, you are suggesting a conservative posted that believing they were the one who "loved"? This is hard to believe, all my conservative relatives just post hate on facebook.

Hate is love, war is peace and all that.

On my feed conservatives are using biblical passages to justify beating their wives.

So I guess the conservative you're quoting can't be that bad.