Conservatives, especially upper management jerks (apart
from rational, primarily economic, conservatives a la William F. Buckley, et al.)
are sociopaths. Conservatism in general in this sense is sociopathy, but
only when measured against the population as a whole as opposed to elitist
factions of it—because sociopathy is relative to social standards and values:
if everyone in a society is an egocentric asshole, then conservatives
will fit right into a society without conscience. (Resemble any
country/government we know?) Liberals, on the other hand, are just plain
unrealistic. It can be tough for some to resist their warm-hearted message when
it’s obvious they care so much about the downtrodden masses who can never seem,
in any way, to help themselves. Survival of the fittest, the conservatives say,
not caring that a large part of the population, especially in this latter
post-industrial age where the social structure has devolved into narrow
specialized groupings that insist upon pigeonholing workers into restricted
categories, is significantly compromised. We no longer have the “tribal” units that
act to incorporate all members as best they can, and conservatives are happy to
disregard anyone who cannot rise to the “responsible” level of fitting themselves
in. Well, okay then. Let’s see how fit the conservatives are when the
revolution comes. The fitter members of the disenfranchised citizens, at some
point, will not take it any more. And then ...
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