I think you’re painting all convservatives with too broad a brush. I will admit that extreme conservatism does correlate highly with the things you are saying. However, much of that can simply be a result of ignorance and/or lack of education.
Also, and very importantly, how do I know that conservatives are the aggressor and instigators? my life alone proves it. I couldn’t have been more neutral in all settings in my life. I could have made a comment here and there when asked. Such as, “Do you think we should go to war?” Well, I would give my comment. Simple as that and I would go about my day treating no one differently regardless. You didn’t even find me picketing or lobbying or striking or anything! I don’t even vote anymore. So, technically there is no political threat I may offer to a conservative. Even though I know I should vote, I am making a point here.
Now, if conservatives disagree with me about the war, for example, then all they had to do was intelligently give me facts, stories, evidence and documentaries and I would peruse that while considering their stance. Well, they just did not do that. They literally attacked my life like I needed a regime change myself. This multiple times has cost me financially and employment-wise. I just really don’t think I did anything to merit that. Seriously? That kind of tells me all I need to know about conservatives and their “claims” of oppression, fear, and the need they have to “defend” themselves. If they make this mistake with me, then they can make this same mistake with a country which is MORE complex than one individual.
Since when? Many great minds in the past have suffered mental illness - Nikola Tesla, Howard Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemmingway, Edgar Allen Poe, etc. That’s not to say that being mentally ill is a good thing, but it doesn’t make one stupid.
I don’t think all of those great minds harassed others like conservatives have harassed me. we are talking about conservatives and mental illness within that context
Could it be they’re just not getting enough oxygen to their brains?
And now, since you posted it again, you don’t have to read it twice.