They’re especially concerned about the Constitution, which a Trump loyalist in Arizona said is “dangling by a thread” and another said is “hijacked.” An evangelical Trumper in Georgia said she thought the Constitution is “under attack.”
But it’s not criticism of federal employees that’s driving their worries. It’s prices that they view as out of control, instability at the border, the cost of the Ukraine war, and “woke” policies that they think are being forced on their kids.
Ah yes, the well-known Constitutional clauses of checks notes the right to low prices, the border wall mandate, the right to only pay for wars you like, and the right to keeping kids unwoke?
Bingo! That’s what you have to understand about Conservatives, they don’t know what they are talking about. They literally repeat what they hear from Trump and his cronies. They don’t understand it and can’t comprehend what it means.
The type of people who look to authorities for an opinion either don’t want or know how to find answers for themselves: by questioning claims, gathering and evaluating evidence and information, adjusting their mental models, and formulating their own conclusions. This is the model for some denominations of Christianity. I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them were raised in that kind of setting.
I don’t think all regressives and conservatives are like this, necessarily. The leadership in many cases are simply sociopaths exploiting these incurious people’s authoritarian tendencies.
But anyway, like the AZ guy who thinks the deep state is a bunch of Marxists, I can tell he has never bothered to learn anything about Marxism on his own and so he can’t validate this claim because he doesn’t even know what Marxist policies or rhetoric would even look like. I bet he doesn’t even think to question his view. And maybe he doesn’t even care to do so.
Ah yes, the well-known Constitutional clauses of checks notes the right to low prices, the border wall mandate, the right to only pay for wars you like, and the right to keeping kids unwoke?
Must be somewhere in the back of the document.
Bingo! That’s what you have to understand about Conservatives, they don’t know what they are talking about. They literally repeat what they hear from Trump and his cronies. They don’t understand it and can’t comprehend what it means.
The type of people who look to authorities for an opinion either don’t want or know how to find answers for themselves: by questioning claims, gathering and evaluating evidence and information, adjusting their mental models, and formulating their own conclusions. This is the model for some denominations of Christianity. I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them were raised in that kind of setting.
I don’t think all regressives and conservatives are like this, necessarily. The leadership in many cases are simply sociopaths exploiting these incurious people’s authoritarian tendencies.
But anyway, like the AZ guy who thinks the deep state is a bunch of Marxists, I can tell he has never bothered to learn anything about Marxism on his own and so he can’t validate this claim because he doesn’t even know what Marxist policies or rhetoric would even look like. I bet he doesn’t even think to question his view. And maybe he doesn’t even care to do so.