I am now going to slowly work through some notes I’ve made over the past week.
Discuss amongst yourselves:
Conservatives have similar but diverse beliefs. Some are Ayn Randian Libertarians, some Christian Fundamentalists, some–like me–Old School Liberals. What unites is certain core understandings about economics and the nature of government. These beliefs can be articulated, discussed, and debated, but the principles involved for most really don’t change. They are stable.
Leftists, if they want to remain friends with their “friends”, if they want to keep their jobs at left wing places, MUST be more or less in lock step with the Dominant Idea of the moment. But those ideas vary continually, and not infrequently contradict some earlier idea. As I keep saying, feminism is not compatible with transgenderism. You have to pick. It is to her credit that Joanne Rowling picked, and stuck with her pick. That in my mind makes her a Liberal, and not a Leftist. She is someone who believes something, and doesn’t change it with the tides of morally incoherent fashion.
As another example, importing limitless immigrants illegally is OBVIOUSLY damaging to those already here, and already struggling economically. Illegal Mexicans hurt legal blacks. Open borders are incompatible with claims to care about the black community, or to want to improve their lives in any way, but particularly financially.
So politically, you have a range of STABLE opinions. Broadly speaking, all such opinions can be qualified as Liberal.
Off the charts, where the dragons are, you have limitless moral ambiguity, continual motion, and a sole constant value of conformity to a mutable agenda.
And this mutability comes with an emotional cost. You cannot not be a fundamentally emotionally superficial person and change your beliefs on a dime. This superficiality breeds anger, and it breeds emotional alienation. Yes, you are connected to your fellow storm troopers, but all of you have to fear continually being disconnected from everyone else by the sort of small error or slowness of correction, which everyone is on the continual hunt for.
You cannot be forgiven when no values are in place, and so everyone has to live in constant fear and hypervigilance, lest their fellow travelers travel on without them, and beat them up as they leave.
That is a truly ugly way to live, and the reason now for so much public ugliness.