Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Responding to COVID-19 in Such Different Ways | Jon Miltimore

Those five pillars are a pretty good definition of why liberals and conservatives are different with that said don't try to take my liberty away from me you'll have the fight of your life.

I tend to view behaviors as less of a function of morals - they tend to be discarded in a crisis - and more of a function of individual motive and biases. But from a more macro perspective, I feel that the structures that people value forms their ideology. People who value family, religion, personal liberty and the workplace (traditional structures) tend to be conservative. People that value education, social interaction, and groups that promote tolerance of differences tend to be liberal.
I find it noteworthy that during the lockdown, we are seeing those structures on the opposite end of the spectrum come under attack or shut down entirely. Texas took the opportunity to close abortion clinics as "non-essential" - never mind they've been working to marginalize abortion providers for years. It totally has nothing to do with ideology. Yeah, right. Blue states have gone so far as fine people for going to church - an actual enumerated Constitutional right. They demonize protesters - another enumerated right - as Nazis and racists. They shut down questions about the garden center at Wal-Mart being closed as invalid questions. But man, if protesters show up to burn down property and businesses, they are just "angry at injustice".

The problem is that those who say they are tolerant really are not. They sneer at churches and traditional families like they are beneath them. They WANT to undercut these structures, because they view them as a threat.

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