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.

  • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    The thought process comes from seeing conservatives and Christians largely align on issues that seem, to me, to be based more on what their leaders are saying rather than critical thinking. As an example, I don’t think many of them would even be considering trans restrictions if they weren’t fed “grooming” rhetoric. As another glaring example, did you see that recent poll with conservatives being more trusting of what Trump says vs their own families? Best link I could find quickly. So no, I don’t see any problems with my conclusion.

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      10 months ago

      that is a very sound and logic conclusion.

      not it’s time to think about how this conclusion should inmpact your actions.
      will you try to combat this and fix the conservative political landscape?