I’m thinking here mainly, of the socio-political labels that so many people ascribe to themselves and to others. Especially “liberal” and “conservative,” but others as well.
What I keep seeing, and seeing A LOT, are people proving even as they proclaim such labels, proving that they are anything BUT what they say they are.
I seem to have been born what I call small-c-conservative, myself. That means that I tend to choose the least change-requiring solutions to life challenges that I can find, while ALWAYS staying true to my basic principles.
What I see a lot of people do, who either call themselves BIG-C-Conservatives, or at least who attack and label people who they don’t like as Liberals, is they choose their course of action according to what the people they dislike, most will resent. And they openly ignore their own claimed principles as they do it.
Same exact thing I see happen with people who call themselves BIG_L_Liberals, or who attack what they label as Conservatives. I tried to be a Liberal when I was younger, because I heard all the grand talk about equality of all people, rejection of all prejudice, and support and care for all people and animals and so on. But I found that too many of he practitioners of all that wonderfulness would drop it all in the trash as soon as they were mad at someone, and then suddenly all bets were off, equality meant they were in charge of all that is holy, and suddenly everyone who did suffer as a result, were just getting what they deserved. Just like the Conservatives I had left behind earlier.
Nowadays, there seems to be almost a perfect storm of such empty-headed, self-delusional, egocentric vindictiveness masquerading as ideals. I can see no one on a national level who isn’t proving as they criticize others, that they are themselves at least as guilty of what they pretend to be above.
Nothing but posturing for the sake of taking a cool selfie.
Anyone else here see something different?