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In reply to the discussion: What I've learned about conservatives in the last few months [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Or the conservative mindset, believing change or redemption is possible. We hope it will learn to be more human after it sheds crocodile tears like Boehner or pleads it didn't really mean it like so many of them caught in lies. Or causing pain. Because we don't want to be like that.
We are only capable of seeing them in our own terms. After the heartfelt reconciliation, they administer the slap on the back (in what we hope is a spirit of camaraderie) with knife in hand, and guffaw at our naivete as they see more pain and terror inflicted. So who is insane, doing the same things, but expecting different results?
We have to work around them and find allies. In those cases where I am unavoidably around them, I act as if I'm in the lion's den. Because we are as proven by their actions. I think that we have indeed fallen into what Savage and others have called liberal ghettoes or enclaves, where we enjoy each others' support and work for positive change, while the sickness that is conservatism turned more septic.
Yes, that's harsh, but I've realized the people we fought years ago have not learned or changed by seeing what good has been done by forgiving or forgetting. They are just like the nightriders or the brownshirts. And they like being that way.