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Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can't Have Personal Data
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We keep hoping that Conservatives are going to suddenly realize how stupid they have been, when history has proven time and again that Conservatives will simply blame some out-group and become violent. They're not going to turn on Trump and learn anything. They are going to start burning down bilingual daycares and hospitals that aren't owned by churches or some other boomer shit.
I don't expect to receive Social Security, but I don't want to see people who need it now lose it, because my politics is not about hurting people who disagree with me. Vengeance is not justice, and schadenfreude is not informative.
For me, it's not about vengeance as much as the hope that people will finally become uncomfortable enough to change something. But yeah, you're right; Donald could personally kick them in the nuts and they'd lay on the ground groaning "why would immigrants do this?"
The ones that get hit often do suddenly wake up. Unfortunately the rest cut those "blasphemers" out of the loop and claim they were rinos the whole time.
Conservativism is a lie people tell themselves when they want to justify being selfish. There are no fundamentally conservative ideological positions or priorities. The way it works is the Conservative defines the Self, meaning who am I and who are my people, and then the Conservative decides which policies and positions are good for the Self.
The Self is good. Anything the Self wants is good because the Self wants it. Anything the Self does is good because the Self did it. Anyone who wants to stop the Self from having or doing anything they want is bad, and they are the Other. The Other might want the same rights or privileges as the Self, but when the Other wants something, it is bad. The Other might do the exact same thing as the Self, but when the Other does it, it is bad because the Other did it. This is not hypocrisy to a Conservative, because the desires and actions are not being judged, only the people.
If the status quo is good for the Self, then that is something that should not change because tradition. If the status quo is not good for the Self, then it must change, eother back to the way it was when the Self benefitted because tradition, or to a new normal because obviously.
This means that when a Consevative is directly affected by a policy in a new way, they may change their position. Either they redefine the self to include or exclude the problematic individuals, or they flipflop on which traditions are important. They can do this without a hint of self-awareness or growth as a person because the positions are not important. The identity as a member of the Self is what makes them righteous, and if they discover a flaw in their beliefs, they will admit only to being temporarily mistaken or possibly led astray.
Don't mistake this adaptation for growth as a person.
Recognizing that you shot yourself in the foot is not the same as realizing you probably shouldn't own a gun.