socio-politics

Time to go back to emphasizing the socio part of socio-politics, because the purely political aspect has been killing me.

A few posts back, I posted the differences between conservatives and liberals.  Here’s how those differences relate to the current situation.

Conservatives have a specific agenda that liberals can never understand, and conservatives see liberals as coming from a completely different world.  Liberals seek discussion, and may very possibly hate a conservatives viewpoint, but will at least get all of the details to make sure that they understand the argument correctly.  Alternately, conservatives can not relate to ideas unrelated to their realm of thought, as they see the “right” way for things to be as very specific.

A discussion between two liberals is likely to involve very different viewpoints, but that’s the whole point - differing viewpoints are invaluable because seeing something from something other than your instinctive point of view is the best way to learn and better your own personal theories.

Two conservatives, assuming that they agree about what they see as the most important issues, will inevitably state their own views back and forth, and be in almost complete agreement for much of the time - if they are not in agreement, an argument will result where they will try to convince each other of why their own view is the correct one, though they’ll still walk away believing their own view.  This is not to say that their views can not change; they inevitably will at points, though it takes a specific event to act as a catalyst for giving the conservative reason to adopt the different view.  This differs from a liberals aptness to change, which is attributed to a genuine desire to learn.

When speaking to a liberal, a conservative will believe that they are speaking to somebody that just completely does not “get it,” and will be extremely reluctant to even entertain the liberals’ thoughts because the conservative believes that they know better.  The liberal will end up frustrated from the conservatives’ steadfastness and inability to truly consider a different viewpoint and will end up either staying frustrated and angry or will avoid speaking their own views in favor of just letting the conservative speak.

That being said, many, if not most, democrats are not actually liberal.  A true liberal would not tell a conservative that what they believe is wrong because everybody sees things from a different perspective.  In political discussions today, there are plenty of democrats that will take a subject such as abortion, gun rights, taxes, etc. and say that what they believe is correct and that’s all there is to it, though that is a conservative approach.

The exemption to all of this for liberals pertains to issues concerning the general welfare of society.  A key belief for liberals concerns the necessity to help those in need, and from this they will not budge because, if people are in need as so many are, they are being underrepresented and their views are not being given the same weight as others.

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