Conservatives hate liberals for 'ruining America' but have only themselve to blame for being out-competed

Differences between liberal and conservative values.

• What he respects in a man:
  
  Conservative: his physical size and strength, dominance
  Liberal: his money and ability to draw attention

• What he uses to justify his entitlement :
  
  Conservative: religion beliefs, church
  Liberal: education, university

• When push comes to shove, his threat of this allows him to 'defend his rights' when what he is actually doing is 'taking by force':
  
  Conservative: guns
  Liberal: lawyers
  

This is why you can't take away gun rights from conservatives. To them, that would be like what taking away all legal rights means to a liberal. To render an individual completely defenseless and powerless to ensure his own survival.

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Conservative men hate liberal men for being and appearing physically weak, feminine, and for not exuding dominance.

They believe liberal male weakness is the reason women, gays, Jews, Mexicans, Blacks, Muslims, and on and on and on - basically any group of people besides themselves - the White Christian American - have 'taken over' and 'ruined' the country.

But liberals didn't destroy America. Liberal states are prospering from being inclusive of racial diversity. Their success comes from embracing progress. The White conservative camp has suffered due to its own inability, because it can't out-compete other races and it refuses to adapt.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. - Charles Darwin

The Trump movement is supported by the White Christian conservatives, whose alpha status in America has diminished and are scared. They fear having Mexicans and Blacks take over as property owners, business owners. They're afraid of having the tables turned on them and becoming subservient to minorities, or China, or any group besides themselves.

Progressive policies in developed cities have benefited from opening up opportunities to a broader, deeper pool of human talent and skills. The nation made advances in equal rights, tolerance, diversity - allowing minority groups to gain the job market and out-compete white nationals because they accept working for lower pay, less benefits, under harder conditions, and undesirable hours.

But White Christian conservatives have not adapted well to change. They have not brought more value to the plate to match their competition, yet their self-superiority beliefs have stayed the same. They can't compete on a global scale, and as a consequence they see their status in their own society decline, as jobs go overseas to fiercer more desperate competitors, as the Mexicans come in to work the jobs they won't, as minorities settle into their neighborhoods and infuse different cultures, languages, networks - worlds in which they have no power.


Conservatives have a misunderstanding of 'morality' to wholly equate to religious rules. That is to say, it is right because God said so and because it is written in the Bible. They think it is that simple.

It is a closed-minded hypocritical attitude that their Lord and Master is always right, and the group that serves their master is justified in condemning or 'teaching the error of their ways' to outside groups for holding different beliefs.

Conservatives want themselves to remain the masters of American society, not through equal competition with the Mexicans and Chinese, not by grit and mettle that built America and its people once prided itself in - but through hate, persecution, intimidation, religious hypocrisy, and corruption - the very evils that founding fathers cast off England to escape and establish a nation that 'opposed free hearts, free foreheads' (Tennyson) meaning to set your free spirit and body bravely, willingly, and without bitterness against the hardships that face a great endeavor.



Making America withdrawn inside its borders and protective of its declining 'racial superiority' will not make it 'Great Again'. The reason America became great in the first place was because it welcomed all men of talent and put them to use, regardless of their nationality, race, or religion!

Denying those most desirous and willing to sacrifice, to endure hardship, and to contribute to our country access into our borders will not make them go away. The competition will not rest, simply because we put a blindfold over our eyes. They will go where they can, to other countries, to our competitors, making them strong while we grow weak in seclusion.

Trump will not make anything Great or ever has. He is a entirely a showman, a con. What has enabled him to win the support of flyover America is to tap into an overwhelming insecurity of White conservatives over their loss of power. Trump feeds them the message they want to hear, to make them FEEL great.

Trump's rhetoric about himself and the boastful image he presents is what those Americans what to be able to say for themselves: that they are great, they are the greatest - and lots of people, lots of smart people - the best people are saying it. Never mind that many of them hate Trump. They think his attempt to dismantle the Mexican, Muslim, LGBT communities will restore White Christian Americans to their rightful position of power in society.



Instead, what will happen if we follow this route is that America will become increasingly backward and redundant. The wealth will be apportioned to the wealthy, while basic social services for the public are cut - healthcare, welfare, education, disability benefits. The average American will need to rely on faith and loyalty to a powerful master for grace and mercy, instead of having the support of social programs that empower him to work his own way toward prosperity.

The brain drain that keeps evangelical regions like Mississippi poor and segregated will spread. Our Christian faith-based schools will send our children's math, science, and reading proficiency sinking even faster. Highly talented people will leave the United States or decide not to come in. Competing nations will surpass our technology and edge us out of global markets.

Faced with a inescapable decline, unless we destroy our competitors, we will throw our chips in a preemptive last-ditch war against some non-specific and fictitious enemy on foreign soil. Whether we 'win' or not, our global presence will diminish and other nations will demand obedience to their coalition because we have thrown away our political clout, and our national resources to wage a war for our leader's personal ambitions.



This will happen because it has already happened with Bush junior. Yet conservatives admired him for the harm he did to this country, because during his office those conservatives temporarily FELT like their power in society grew.

When it was all over, they blamed his successor, and the Blacks, the Mexicans, the Muslims for all the negative repercussions of their vanity - debt, economic depression, unemployment. Because they don't quite feel as good about themselves, unless they set themselves as superior than someone else.