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NeedToUseYou -> RE: Why are conservatives happier than liberals? (11/13/2006 9:28:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ZenrageTheKeeper
All conservativism is based in insecurity and a fear of inferiority. All conservatives, whether social, economic, political or spiritual, want to believe themselves as superior in all forms by default as if they were royalty or something.
1. Everything the human race does is derived from competition. When we play, when we sleep, when we wake, when we relax, when we eat, when we choose our mates, when we raise our children.. everything. Theists go to church and belief in afterlives to compete against the inevitability of death. When we relax, we pit one experience against another to create a more enjoyable atmosphere. Esepcially when we debate ideas. When we eat, we compete against the life that we ingest for out own nutritional needs - the competition doesn't dissolve merely because modern convenience has made it a competely one-sided struggle.
2. When people compare the value of two similar items, there are only three possibilities: A is greater than B, A is equal to B, or A is less than B.
3. Look at the issues that conservatives latch onto: Anti-gay marriage. Anti-gun laws. Pro-military. Pro-corporation. Anti-corporate legisation. Anti-taxes. Anti-welfare. Anti-separation between church and state. Anti-free speech. Anti-social security. Anti-civil liberities for women and black people (1900 - 1950's). Anti-abortion.
Anything that levels the playing field on a social, economic, physical, political, or spiritual manner, the conservatives, in one form or another will rally against it. What are their arguments against it? Only the most superficial responses, of course: my skin is whiter, i'm straight behind closed doors, my invisible supreme boogeyman says thats wrong, I have a penis and you dont, I'm richer than you or I have more stuff than you do, I have a last name with a longer history than you do, because I'm not like them and they say its good. On and on and on. The pattern is unmistakeable. The question remains why?
Since legislation like this would only serve to "equate A to B" and conservatives don't want that, they must either want to be greater to their opposition or less than their opposition. Since conservatives never admit to saying they are less than other people, holding other philosophies, then they must, by elimination, think they are superior to other people by default.
Conservatives are so consumed with being thought of and seen as superior that they strive against any legislation that merely equates them to anyone else. Oh the focus and the methods may differ from conservative to conservative, but they all follow the same pattern in one way or the other. I don't know what that says to you, but it sounds like classic Superiority Complex to me.
Now mind you, a lot of conservatives when faced with this will automatically go into "Oh, but that's not me, those are hardcore conservatives. I'm a mainstream conservative." In affect, they do the exact same thing over again with other conservatives. I'm group A, I'm better than group B, by default.
That is why conservatives seem so happy to themselves. They merely suffer from Superiority Complex and believe they are above the "petty" difficulties of everyone else.
It seems you feel liberalism is superior to conservativism.
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