This erroneously assumes conservatives care about their own constitutional rights.
This is the party of “the only moral abortion is my abortion” and “I hate the gays until my kid comes out gay.”
They have no ability to actually visualize it happening to them until it is already too late. Until it is directly happening to them, in their view, it isn’t happening at all.
Even when it happens to friends and neighbors, they will find ways to rhetorically and mentally justify it.
Until their own constitutional rights are being impacted directly and personally, they don’t give a shit and trying to tell them that they should be concerned is a fools errand.
I don’t expect the Republican true believers to be swayed by this. But there is a huge chunk of the US population which doesn’t fall neatly into ideological buckets, and which can see why having a gestapo isn’t in their interest.
When they’re constantly told the other side is “cheating,” they will easily believe that it is necessary for them to cheat, too.
Even less-stupid conservatives think that allowing the left to be in charge leads to an inevitability of unadulterated socialism which, in their brain, looks like East Berlin
This erroneously assumes conservatives care about their own constitutional rights.
This is the party of “the only moral abortion is my abortion” and “I hate the gays until my kid comes out gay.”
They have no ability to actually visualize it happening to them until it is already too late. Until it is directly happening to them, in their view, it isn’t happening at all.
Even when it happens to friends and neighbors, they will find ways to rhetorically and mentally justify it.
Until their own constitutional rights are being impacted directly and personally, they don’t give a shit and trying to tell them that they should be concerned is a fools errand.
I don’t expect the Republican true believers to be swayed by this. But there is a huge chunk of the US population which doesn’t fall neatly into ideological buckets, and which can see why having a gestapo isn’t in their interest.
When they’re constantly told the other side is “cheating,” they will easily believe that it is necessary for them to cheat, too.
Even less-stupid conservatives think that allowing the left to be in charge leads to an inevitability of unadulterated socialism which, in their brain, looks like East Berlin