You are a proud member of a group. Your group believes in living a virtuous life and spreading those beliefs onto the non-believers. The leaders of your group constantly announce viewpoints that you should live by. They recently told everyone that whenever you want to toast bread your toaster should be set to the highest level, and you will always be assured that your toast will come out perfect. Not under done nor burnt. You enthusiastically follow this new directive. Every day you have a piece of toast for breakfast. You are confused because now every day your toast comes out burnt. You go to the group leaders looking for help. You are told that the directive is correct but maybe the ambient temperature in your kitchen is causing the issue. Or maybe you are just using the wrong type of bread. Regardless of the refinements that you make the result is always the same – burnt toast. This latest failed directive reminds you of other directives from the leaders that have yielded outcomes that are not what was guaranteed. At this point you need to decide whether you want to flee the group and live in reality or take a leap of faith and continue following the group directives. Many will remain as group members because it gives meaning to their lives. In just a short time they will convince themselves that the toast is actually not burnt and live the rest of their lives happily eating burnt toast convincing themselves that it just perfect.
We spend too much time with allegiance to political parties and individual politicians. It is always about policies and the provable outcomes of those policies.
It’s certainly anti-traditionalist: it’s clearly displaying how the traditions are false.
Look at how many elections the conservative faction in the united states lost because of their deranged obsession with opposing trans people and asserting the existence of some fabled trans “”“iDeoLoGy”“”. The projection is THICK.
The funny thing about “the other side” is that very, VERY few of the people voting for the “liberals” are ever terribly fond of liberalism nor interested in defending liberalism. They just don’t want people in office who will ban their books; force women and girls to carry teratomas to term, let ectopic germ cell embeds rupture their fallopian tubes and shred their internal organs, or give birth to the babies of the men who RAPED them; arm domestic terrorists who enjoy shooting up their schools, churches, and grocery stores; and let cops kill their pets and family members with consequence-free impunity and “qualified immunity”.
Not that the liberals even promised to FIX any of this shit; they merely did not profess a support of it. You don’t vote “liberal” because you trust or believe them, but because you no longer trust or believe anyone. You don’t vote “liberal” because you LIKE them, but because the conservatives FUCKING HATE YOU and take every opportunity to take away your freedom and make your way of life illegal. You don’t vote “liberal” because you’re drinking kool-aid, but because you’re DONE drinking kool-aid.
You don’t vote “liberal” because you’d EVER blindly follow their instructions about how to make toast at all, let alone attempt the mental gymnastics that this toast must not be burnt because you followed those instructions; People vote “liberal” because they’re fucking sick and tired of being shovel-fed burnt toast and being told by the conservatives that this disgusting charcoal masquerading as bread is ‘god’s plan’, ‘patriotic’, ‘owns the libs’, and undermines the ‘woke agenda’.
Just because you like barely brown toast, it doesn’t mean all the dark toast enjoyers are bullshitting about it just to fuck with you.