Liberals want to work together to facilitate individuality. Conservatives want people tomindividually make all the same choices.
I like that better.
Liberals want it to be every-man-for-himself when it comes to morals and modes of personal behavior while at the same time wanting everyone to pay for everyone else’s needs. Conservatives are pretty much the opposite, in that they want social order (which, given that we live in a society, makes more sense to me) but everyone to be responsible for themselves financially.
It baffles me that the latter is more acceptable than the former to anyone, but eh. That’s for another thread.
Liberals are social libertarians and believe in civic responsibility. Conservatives are theocratic moralists who use the phrase “personal responsibility” as an excuse to avoid responsibility.
“Responsibility” as defined and assigned by liberalism, of course, as there is no objective responsibility that requires everyone to chip in to provide for everyone else. Most conservatives merely want everyone to carry their own water (mentally and physically impaired excepted in the minds of most). I know lots of conservatives who are far from rich and they aren’t looking for a dime from anyone else. To do so would violate their moral code, so they either take on addition jobs for extra income or they do without. They do not envy those who have more than they do, and they don’t think it’s the government’s responsibilty to take other people’s money and give it to them.
what else is there to say? the thread should end here.
An exchange from a great old TV show occurs to me.
“Hey, am I my brother’s keeper?”
“The answer to that is supposed to be ‘yes’.”
You ain’t my brother, you jus’ heavy.
