I’ve spoken about this before, but they think that everything is a binary good/bad. Liberals = good and Conservatives = bad.
We clearly aren’t liberals, so we can’t fit in that “good” box, so we must go in the “bad/conservative” box instead.
That’s it. That’s their rationale behind this. “They aren’t liberals so they must be conservatives.” Words mean nothing to a liberal, it’s all about vibes.
It really is pretty much just this for a lot of them. Maybe the slightly more sophisticated among them will call us like “useful idiots in service of the right wing” or something along those lines. Not a lot of rigorous thought goes into this shit most of the time. It’s basically a disney understanding of politics.
It’s fiction brain. They need the real world to be full of simple good guys and bad guys, because they’ve always been a “good guy” their whole life, and if being good or bad was based on actions and nuance and not just a simplistic “We are the good guy team” they might need to consider if they aren’t actually as wonderful a person as they think they are.
I’ve spoken about this before, but they think that everything is a binary good/bad. Liberals = good and Conservatives = bad.
We clearly aren’t liberals, so we can’t fit in that “good” box, so we must go in the “bad/conservative” box instead.
That’s it. That’s their rationale behind this. “They aren’t liberals so they must be conservatives.” Words mean nothing to a liberal, it’s all about vibes.
It really is pretty much just this for a lot of them. Maybe the slightly more sophisticated among them will call us like “useful idiots in service of the right wing” or something along those lines. Not a lot of rigorous thought goes into this shit most of the time. It’s basically a disney understanding of politics.
It’s fiction brain. They need the real world to be full of simple good guys and bad guys, because they’ve always been a “good guy” their whole life, and if being good or bad was based on actions and nuance and not just a simplistic “We are the good guy team” they might need to consider if they aren’t actually as wonderful a person as they think they are.