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Pete Buttigieg forced to explain that lead is poisonous to obtuse Republican
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In other words, for those that tldr: Conservatives could be incredibly kind and might often actually do the right thing, if they weren't total idiots. Problem is: They believe too hard literally all the time and base their self off an ideology built on narratives, true or false.
They could be decent people, but aren’t.
Got it.
Actions speak louder than words. If you say you love and support children, but vote to take away their rights to be who they are and read what they want, you're a bad person. If you say you support women, but vote to take away their bodily autonomy and voice, you're a bad person. If you say you support helping the poor, but vote to decrease or eliminate social programs meant to help the poor, you're a bad person.
But they'll never realize that.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. -Maya Angelou
I don't think that's a conservative specific thing there, and if you do odds are you're doing the same thing but privileging the ideologies and narratives you are using in a way that you don't think they count as narratives or ideologies but as either facts, justice or something along those lines.
To put it another way, I suspect if I asked for a list of your ten mostly firmly held and allegedly defensible political beliefs and we really drilled down to the bedrock on them we'd hit some bits that are more ideology or narrative than you'd be readily comfortable to admit. Or cases where you built the position around a principle that only applies when it otherwise neatly aligns with your preferred ideologies and narratives.
For example, pro-choice people tend to be able to invoke one or more general principles that they often claim being pro-choice is an example or expression of (bodily autonomy is a popular one), but it's shockingly common for nearly the only controversial case where they'll apply those principles to be abortion (and I say this as someone who is pro-choice).
Kelly Oliver (philosophy professor at Vanderbilt specializing in feminism among a few other topics, ironically including ethics) once argued that feminist theory isn't about producing true theories or false theories but rather strategic theories - in other words it's not about whether or not it's true but whether or not it is useful for activism. This sounds shockingly like something conservatives might say about some of their hot button claims of the moment if they were being unusually honest.