Tea Partiers are hidebound traditionalists operating a nostalgic and incorrect understanding of history, wish to police the morality of others, and are not especially concerned with the dictates of logic. Revelatory.
Really decent analysis, I think; I grew up in a fairly conservative household and this reflects a lot of the kind of philosophy I heard stated in our social circles, even if it was not always lived out- my father, for instance, will talk till he's blue in the face how basically people should get what they earn, whether that's from good decisions or bad (like this article is about), but doesn't seem to see any cognitive dissonance between saying that and being the first to help someone if they need it, even if they got themselves into needing help. I think it's just that when conservatives who think this way are afraid, as many people are now, they cling more consciously to this karmic ideology until it becomes an obsession with cosmic justice... but unfortunately, they're the only ones in society who learned they could ever imagine they could expect some cosmic justice in the first place. :/
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Wow, couldn't even make it past the first paragraph there.
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There whole freedom schtick falls flat when you realise they're characterising non-conformity/being non-dominant as oppression
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Huh. Yet they want to tell other people how to live their lives, especially if it's related to the bedroom. How does that work, exactly?
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