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Conservatism is, as always, a complete failure of empathy, a lack of ability to recognise that if you don’t care about other people and you choose to put people who also don’t care about other people in charge, the people in charge simply and absolutely don’t care about you or your friends or your family.

Conservatives don’t understand that “them” and “us” are actually all just us.

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Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

… “them” and “us” are actually all just us.

Yes!

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frunch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Well said, and i love your user name. Happy Friday 🥂

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SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This is a bit of an extreme view. Most conservatives do have empathy, though they will prioritize their closed ones with it.

The problem with this specific scenario with the tarrifs is just people being misinformed and buying everything the party tells them, but I wouldn’t blame it on lack of empathy. If they’d actually known what the repercussions would be, I don’t think most of them would have voted for trump.

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- MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Many, many conservatives voted for dump to punish immigrants. Many, many people voted to “own the libs”, just like the person cited in this very post.
  
  Please… point to the “empathy” in “owning the libs”. They might have the tiniest drop of empathy for some, but the problem is they have a lot more HATE for people they don’t even fucking know. That makes them terrible people no matter how much you say, “butbut they still have some empathy!”.
  
  Yea, the problem is they have more hate than empathy.
  
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  - faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Democrats are also a conservative party. Biden is a conservative with empathy.
    
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