What a lot of conservatives feel is attacked. They heavily feel the contempt that oozes from liberal talking points and tv shows that are so so cool and totally not within the ability of rubes to understand. They feel that their religious faith is under attack, that their way of life: farming, factory work, skilled or unskilled labor is looked down upon. That they are regarded as stupid and uninformed by those who went to college
I don't buy these JD Vance style sob stories. Rural conservatives shit on godless coastal liberal gay degenerate city slickers just as much if not more than the other way around, and somehow the godless coastal liberals manage not to become fascists.
Blaming the left/center for the right's turn toward fascism has got a strong "see what you made me do" quality to it.
Funny because at least one gay man from a small town in a very red midwestern state posts here on this very forum.
Here he is agreeing with me that right-wing rhetoric is far worse:
But what I hear from a lot of my fellow liberals is a lot of unstated fuck your feelings and we college educated people know what’s best for YOU. Wrapped up in a lot of politically correct verbiage, of course. If you think liberals are mean, wait until you hear about what right-wingers say...
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Pointing out that people with whom you have extremely sharp political ( philosophical, religious, cultural, generational, etc.) disagreements are actual human beings with while you share common values and much more than you may be comfortable with is not a ‘sob story.’
You are pedaling right-wing victimhood. Right-wingers aren't victims. They are the assholes that perpetuate the social and economic hierarchies from which they benefit (or think they benefit).
Moreover, when you lecture to people on the left about how right-wingers are "actual human beings", you are preaching to the choir. Left-wing politics are by definition egalitarian. Right-wingers are the ones who think inequality is natural and exists because some people are just better than others, e.g. "black people are poorer because they are lazy". So really, right-wingers are the ones you should be lecturing.
Loudly condemning others who hold somewhat different beliefs than you do is straight out of the FOX news playbook.
"somewhat different beliefs"
You are minimizing how destructive fascism is. These assholes tried to overthrow an election, they want to turn women into incubators, they are doing everything possible to make it harder for black people to vote, they are making life hell for lgbt people, they are concentrating more and more wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people, etc, etc...
I mean, what you're doing is like someone in Nazi Germany telling Jewish people that Jews and Nazis share a lot of common values. What would be the point? What good does that do Jewish people?