People don’t even agree on what good is, so there’s no way everyone can agree on what to do in order to do good. Many conservatives oppose progress because they don’t even agree that it is progress. They see a very sick society where the family has all but disappeared, social institutions have fallen apart, and the government can no longer be trusted.
Check it out, even including the partisan dimension of people trusting the government more when their party controls the White House, the overall trend is strongly negative. Just compare! Republicans trusted the government of LBJ — a Democrat in the White House for the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination — far more than they trusted the government during Trump’s first term!
Democrats have also lost faith in government and not even Obama was able to rekindle it for them. This is a very disgruntled, low trust society!
Yeah, but that’s like comparing apples to fish. Those same type of Republicans convinced Nixon to leave because what he had done was dishonorable. Compare that to today’s GOP of anything goes as long as they win.
I don’t buy the argument that Republicans are good in a certain point of view, solely because when they complain about someone doing something, it’s often projection for them already doing it. There’s no values there, it’s cutthroat to win and prosper on top of other people’s suffering.
I do agree with your general point, things are very broken.
People don’t even agree on what good is, so there’s no way everyone can agree on what to do in order to do good. Many conservatives oppose progress because they don’t even agree that it is progress. They see a very sick society where the family has all but disappeared, social institutions have fallen apart, and the government can no longer be trusted.
Check it out, even including the partisan dimension of people trusting the government more when their party controls the White House, the overall trend is strongly negative. Just compare! Republicans trusted the government of LBJ — a Democrat in the White House for the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination — far more than they trusted the government during Trump’s first term!
Democrats have also lost faith in government and not even Obama was able to rekindle it for them. This is a very disgruntled, low trust society!
Yeah, but that’s like comparing apples to fish. Those same type of Republicans convinced Nixon to leave because what he had done was dishonorable. Compare that to today’s GOP of anything goes as long as they win.
I don’t buy the argument that Republicans are good in a certain point of view, solely because when they complain about someone doing something, it’s often projection for them already doing it. There’s no values there, it’s cutthroat to win and prosper on top of other people’s suffering.
I do agree with your general point, things are very broken.