#conservative values

[2bpoliticallycurious]

“The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -- John Kenneth Galbraith, excerpt from “Wealth and Poverty,” speech, National Policy Committee on Pockets of Poverty (13 Dec 1963)

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NOTE: The above image was modified by adding John Kenneth Galbraith’s name to the quote. 

#conservative values #selfishness #john kenneth galbraith #republicans #my edits

[cricketcat9]

Apparently,

Mick is 80 and Mitch is 81… how about them…conservative values and such 🤨

#conservative values

[torturedpoetemotions]

The thing about conservatives and their conspiracy theory that "the libs" are trying to brainwash their children is that a) it's entirely 100% projection and assuming everyone operates the way they do, and b) what is actually happening is more akin to deprogramming than brainwashing.

Speaking from experience, growing up in a conservative family and community was a continuous, painful process of having my natural compassionate and empathetic responses stamped out of me.

I was constantly discouraged from seeing the humanity in others who didn't share my race, class, religion, or my parents' political beliefs. I was shamed and punished for every thought and action that didn't align perfectly with said beliefs. I was taught to avoid any information that contradicted those beliefs, and to fear and mistrust it if I couldn't avoid it completely.

And this wasn't done by providing all the teachings and then holding me to them, mind. I never recall having anything truly explained to me. No, the method of instruction was to wait for me to do something that fell outside of the narrow guardrails no one had ever shown me, then yell and pearl clutch and bombard me with horror and disappointment that I had said/done/thought such an "awful thing." Again, without ever explaining why it was awful.

This process gradually taught me to view the world primarily in terms of my own emotions, and to view those emotions as the voice of God--as long as they aligned with conservative values. And since I was being trained like a dog to experience discomfort, shame, fear, and distress whenever I encountered anything or anyone that didn't align with those values, I was basically innoculated against critical thinking and basic facts.

The result of all this was twofold. Firstly, though I didn't stop having questions or doubts about the ideas I was being taught, I felt intense guilt and shame whenever I had them. Secondly, I began to perceive anyone else questioning my beliefs as an attack on everything I was.

The last thing that was done to me--by parents, teachers, preachers, and eventually friends, because we all learned to do it to each other--was to make me acutely aware and terrified of how my community would see and treat me if I ever strayed from the beliefs we now shared. After a lifetime of being trained to hang my entire self-worth and moral compass on how conservative authority figures reacted to me, I was presented with an image of lifelong shame and disappointment. Utter loneliness. A chasm between myself and everyone I knew that would never be bridged. And of course, eternal suffering and separation from them after death.

Yeah, the death-cult of Christianity was a whole other can of worms on its own, but its lessons and methods ultimately reinforced the conservative brainwashing, and vice versa.

In contrast, becoming a "liberal" (read: someone whose beliefs are rooted in facts and who cares about people more than ideology) was a very internal, very self-guided process. Nobody was actually pushing me to believe one thing over another. What actually happened was: I got distance from that community and their constant reinforcement; I got access to the information that I was kept away from as a child; I encountered people with different views and backgrounds and saw that they weren't evil monsters; I was encouraged to decide for myself what I thought, and learn to defend that thought with information.

And yes...that did lead me away from the conservative beliefs of my family and childhood community. Because those beliefs could not stand up to the smallest amount of critical thinking or actual facts.

It still took me over a decade of being separated from that community to unlearn all of those trained responses. Hell, I'm still unlearning some of them. I still struggle with the loss of that community. I still have an intense emotional reaction I have to work through before my thinking kicks in, whenever I am presented with information that contradicts what I thought I knew. I still come across thoughts or negative associations I have with various people, ideas, etc. only to realize those are unexamined holdovers from my upbringing. Like moving a piece of furniture and finding all the crumbs and other nastiness your vacuum's been missing.

But the key thing here is, the process of becoming who I am today wasn't brainwashing. It wasn't even, now that I lay it out, true deprogramming. It was more like recovery. A long and arduous process for which I often needed support, but which was ultimately completely led by and up to me. I had to want to get better. And I did. So I did.

Which is why I can say for certain that what conservatives are doing now is absolutely 100% about removing as many avenues as possible for doubts and questions to lead to critical thinking. That's why they're hamstringing teachers, banning books, pushing revisionism in the teaching of U.S. history, attacking queer children, doubling down on anti-intellectualism, deregulating child labor. They know that exposure to diversity and access to real information and education is a tried and true path out of their cult mentality. And they can't allow that path to exist.

#ex conservative #exvangelical #recovering christian #deconstruction #brainwashing #deprogramming #recovery #us politics #conservative values #lizawords

[alwaysbewoke]

insane cult shit.

#donald trump #conservative #republicans #maga #gop #trump 2024 #trump legacy #republican party #conservative values #maga movement #gop strong #trump supporters #justin mohn #middletown murder #first-degree murder #abuse of a corpse #crime possession #bucks county #murder charge #family tragedy #crime news #Youtube #021224

[practical-progressive-politics]

Insights from Lakoff: Household Model of Family Politics

George Lakoff's household model of family politics has been a source of inspiration for my upcoming research on the appeal of Donald Trump for voters who crave paternal, masculine leadership above all else. The model, which posits that political beliefs are shaped by the family structure in which an individual is raised, offers valuable insight into the dynamics at play in Trump's appeal to these voters.

In particular, the model's concept of the "strict father" family resonates with the strong, authoritarian leadership that Trump embodies and promises to his supporters. By framing himself as a strict father figure who will protect and discipline the nation, Trump is able to tap into the deep-seated desire for masculine, paternal leadership among his supporters.

My research aims to explore this dynamic in more detail, drawing on Lakoff's household model as a starting point. I believe that this model offers valuable insight into the appeal of Trump and the role that family dynamics play in shaping political beliefs.

Lakoff's household model of family politics is a framework that explains how political beliefs are shaped by the family structure in which an individual is raised. According to this model, there are two main types of families: the "strict father" family and the "nurturant parent" family.

In a strict father family, the father is seen as the authority figure who is responsible for disciplining and protecting the family. This type of family structure is associated with conservative political beliefs, including a focus on personal responsibility and a limited role for government.

In a nurturant parent family, on the other hand, both parents are seen as equally responsible for caring for and nurturing the family. This type of family structure is associated with progressive political beliefs, including a focus on community and the role of government in providing support and services.

Lakoff's household model suggests that an individual's political beliefs are shaped by the type of family in which they were raised, with strict father families leading to conservative beliefs and nurturant parent families leading to progressive beliefs. This model offers a unique perspective on the way in which family dynamics can shape political beliefs.

#academia #thesis #democrats #democrat #masters degree #political communication #political commentary #communication #conservative #conservative values #southern politics #Donald Trump #george lakoff

[redshift-13]

Brief Dispatches From the Iranian Revolution - Dec. 22, 2022 (warning: graphic images & content)

https://twitter.com/DrFarazHarsini/status/1605299182071435276

https://twitter.com/ICHRI/status/1605666389179584512

https://twitter.com/arashcaviani/status/1605269577532841989

https://twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/1604454944886734850

https://twitter.com/IranPanoramaNew/status/1603432261596205059

https://twitter.com/79OSF/status/1604966501462994944

https://twitter.com/mahin766/status/1605435696738615300

https://twitter.com/whome010101/status/1605559555638775808

https://twitter.com/azijangravi/status/1604518678669697025

https://twitter.com/LisaDaftari/status/1603814849300926465

https://twitter.com/chelseahartisme/status/1602824797196386306

https://twitter.com/omid9/status/1603026838615474176

#iran #islam #theism #god belief #religion #conservative values #crimes of state #crimes of islam #feminism #woman life freedom

[foucaultsgarage]

#don't say gay #gay men #conservative values #politics

[mislamicpearl]

How do I find this very specific corner of tumblr where people:

Don't support the lgbt-community

like talking about cartoons (preferably the same ones I like) and not only about religion

Also like books

Support Palestine

Don't hate Muslims

I feel maybe I'm asking for the impossible here...

#tumblr was never my first choice but the format is closest to what I was after #conservative values #muslims #free palestine #traditional values #There should a specific tag for that if there isn't one already #I keep using “normal people” but of course that's too vague

[somerandomg33k]

Well, that happened.

I just unfollowed a "friend" recently. This friend was emotional because a big streamer they looked up to, who they raided a while ago got reported for hate speech as she was reading bible scripture. My 'friend' said, "I hate that people are harassed and dog piled just for having a difference of opinion. So what the big streamer I looked up to has some 'conservative' political views."

Now, my ears perk up at the use of 'conservative' political views. Because my friend tolerates a lot of things. I don't know if they know what a bigot is. Or if bigotry is just "a difference of opinion." They have a friend that is a total bigot. But my 'friend' wants to "agree to disagree." They the Darth Vadar problem of "I see the good in him."

So I want to know who 'my friend' raided and what was this streamer's 'conservative' views. She was doing bible readings when she was flagged for "hate speech." So I found the streamer, when I went to her social media, Twitter, and only like 5 or 6 tweets of scrolling down, she tweeted, "What am I known for? Saying f*ggot" …… And that is not just a one-time thing. She is proud of using the word. She is proud of being a bigot. She seems to be pro Gamer Gate 2. And this is one of the streamers my "friend" looks up to. I don't think my 'friend' is a bigot. But clearly, has no problem what so ever with bigotry. "It is just a difference of opinion." "Can we just focus on the things we share in common and not the things we disagree with."

I was thinking of ghosting my 'friend' for some time now. They wanted to stream Hogwart's Legacy on Twitch to "stand up to the bullies." But also because they actually wanted to play the game. They are a fan of Dave Chappelle and was emotional over folks "trying to cancel him." They felt that Gina Carano was unfairly fired. Or "She got cancelled and that is wrong." I didn't trust my 'friend's' judgement.

And I should have left a long time ago. This was kind of the final straw. I was going to unfollow this 'friend' if they did stream Hogwart's Legacy. But this is good enough. My 'friend' also complained about 'wokeness' in the MCU. Has at least one friend that is a bigot. And someone in their server said to me, "There are only 2 genders," when everyone in the server knows I am Non-binary. And that person wasn't kicked from the Discord server because of that.

I stayed longer than I should because of some kind of networking possibilities on Twitch.

I was also hoping to make a difference in that community with my radical politics and being the raging Anarcho-Syndicalist that I am. But I quickly figured out that maybe like only two people could be swayed. And I can interact with them in other communities. So even if I was doing my political agitation, it was going to be a lot of work for very little gain.

#friends #friendship #hogwarts legacy #dave chappelle #politics #cw: homophobia #cw: hogwarts legacy #bigotry #bigots #conversatives #conservative politics #conservative values #political views

[kindwarrior]

#brainwashing #dnc #clueless liberal #parenting #love #discipline #mental health #marriage #conservative values #values #Youtube

[rexalogy]

Every Taylor Swift song

#I truly truly cannot empathize with anyone in limerence with her in fact it feels betraying. #all of the interesting beautiful art in the world and the only thing you can blow up is another implicitly conservative value white woman? #having to write narratives about her hypothetical dykeishness to feel comfortable with that dissonance? as if that would even absolve her #it’s not that I hate Taylor I just hate this unwillingness to engage with where her worldview has serious limitations and it seeps #throughout her discography. I think loving art comes with being able to recognize where it fails #what politics are present in it. it’s not deep it’s not subtext it’s all just right there

[kvetcher-in-the-rye]

Ghost in the Shell Video Game

Civilians drafted into the US Military under threat of violence often refused to shoot people on the battlefield until military researchers desensitized troops to violence with simulations which the military-industrial-complex turned into the video game industry and made civilians so eager to kill that the draft is no longer needed and even protesters voluntarily surrender tax dollars for video game sales which fund the military tyranny and violence they protest against.

Inform video gamers of these facts and they still disagree, so apparently video games also cause retardation.

#video games #games #military #military industrial complex #fascisim #mind control #psyops #psychological operations #brainwashing #murica #corporate greed #corporatism #capitalism #police violence #genocide #gaming #abolish the police #police brutality #police state #conservative #conservative christians #conservative politics #conservative values #conspiracies #government conspiracy #conspiracy #conspiracy fact #history #liberty #libertarian

[tonyjohnsonblog]

God, Constitution, Values

Hello, fellow patriots. Today I want to share with you my thoughts on why we need to return to conservative values, the constitution, and God in this troubled time. I believe that our nation is facing a moral crisis that threatens our freedom, our security, and our identity as Americans. First of all, we need to return to conservative values because they are the foundation of our society.…

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#Conservative Values #Constitution #God #usa

[tennesseewisdom]

Confirmed by a conservative woman, right here, right now.

#Confirm #Fr #Conservative #Conservative women #Women #conservative values #Also haha I'm a pro life woman what are you gonna do about it

[jebmungall]

Alien Invasion Films & Traditional Values

Alien invasion movies have long been a favorite for me. In these films, humans are forced to confront their limitations and vulnerabilities, both as individuals and as a species.

Shortly before the COVID-19 epidemic hit, my younger brother asked if I’d be interested in doing a movie-based podcast with him. While nowhere near the movie-buff he is, I thought it would be a good opportunity to spend some time together. We soon developed our gimmick for the “Cinesiblings Podcast” where we would draft films or pieces of cinema fantasy-style. Our first such draft was “Horror…

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#A Quiet Place #alien invasion #aliens #christianity #cinema #conservative values #faith #family values #films #God #hollywood #hope #horror #John Krasinski #liberal values #love #Mel Gibson #politics #self-reliance #Signs #survival #traditionalism #uap #ufos

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#republicans #conservatives #us politics #memes #shitpost #conservatives be like #republicans be like #gop policy #gop platform #gop #republican family values #republican homophobia #child marriage #child labor laws #libertarians be like #fuck libertarians #libertarian #libertarians