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There's a lot of convoluted history behind what led to Project 2025, and that's likely on purpose.
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That tracks with how conservatives develop progressive views the moment their family is affected. Like Dick fucking Cheney being okay about gay rights because he has a gay daughter. But again: that's just interpersonal relations as the basis for moral judgement. Conservatism, as a worldview, is that practice. Right-wing politics are the most obvious extension of that - 'ingroup good' means tribalism, our tribe is best tribe, someone's gotta be king. The myth of small-c conservatives is a story they tell. But this pattern of behavior can exist in any context. It's how we get tankies insisting any leftist-sounding dictatorship must be good, because leftists are the ingroup, and ingroup good. End of thought. The rest is just shuffling cards to create pretense for that conclusion.
I don't think anyone has to be trained into this. That's the problem. This is humanity's default. This is how things worked in the ancestral environment, and it was a lot easier than all this thinky-thinky crap, and it usually turned out fine. We barely even noticed it until everyone's day-to-day thoughts were archived in black and white. Lone events may be written off as hypocrisy. The global pattern is an epistemological crisis.
I think to some extent, that is the default when the amygdala is kicked into hyperdrive by fear and the prefrontal cortex goes offline.
But dividing the U.S. into such black and white extremes of left vs right is directly the result of the heritage foundation creating the whole moral majority narrative, and essentially creating an advertising campaign out of abortion and Roe v Wade.
Originally Americans weren't even very divided on the issue, but Paul Weyrich seized the opportunity and targeted evangelical Christians several years after the Roe v Wade decision was even made.
Even leaders of the southern baptist church weren't opposed to Roe v Wade at the time the decision was made.
I grew up in the southern Baptist church in the 90s, so well after the pro-life narrative had been established as unquestionable in the church. In no way was it some kind of rosey utopia back then, it was pretty awful, but even since then it's gotten more extreme and politicized. Straight up denial and disgust with the literal word of Jesus and saying things like "empathy is a disease," is something new that is being gradually inserted into everyday "Christianity," so that eventually (just like abortion) it will just be accepted without question.
Before abortion it was civil rights.
Before that it was women's suffrage.
Before that it was slavery.
This pattern will always find an excuse - some reason to distinguish a moral crusade for our people's innate superiority versus the vile outgroup coming to humiliate us all. Therefore in the name of preserving the past we must commit unprecedented violence to protect what cannot possibly change!
They're just shuffling cards. The outright bastards who contradict themselves within one sentence are only saying the quiet part loud. And the fact their audience does not immediately call horseshit is a big hint that they're not engaging with this on an intellectual level. Their preacher says so, and he's up the hierarchy. Any cognitive dissonance means they gotta "study it out" and find excuses. Like how Leviticus plainly says don't eat shellfish, don't mix fabrics, don't get tattoos, but the only reason Christians reference it is to whinge about queer people. Calling it infallible means nothing - because the authority figure speaking confidently said nuh-uh.
Fear is not necessary. This nonsense is how outwardly-reasonable pillars of the community deal with everyday obstacles, sometimes in the condescending affectation of charity. They're the opposite of scared. They think they're helping! But what they're saying is, it's good that this child is hungry, because Father Dingleberry said so on Sunday, and mumble mumble yadda yadda jingly keys.
Really have to disagree with you here, fear is how groups of people are kept under control. It's the basis of authoritarian regimes
How did Bush gain support for the patriot act despite the fact that it clearly violated civil liberties?
Why did Trump stand in front of a camera a few days ago and yell about how much danger we're all in? You know he's full of shit, but the person who is in an echo chamber, and never exposed to any questions of regarding his greatness, will believe he's saying that because it's true and he's looking out for her best interest