The basis of conservatism is fear. To understand conservatives, you must understand fear. They bathe in it, drink it, live it and become it.
They are afraid. They are afraid because a man belonging to a non-white race- races they are terrified of- is in a position of power over them. They are afraid because the government is bigger and stronger than they are, and they are terrified of it.
They are afraid, because, when they were in power, they oppressed black people- mostly out of fear. Read papers from the slavery times. Every other story was a lurid description of the possible happenings if a black slave escaped- some culminating in the ruin of society. They are afraid that the sins of the fathers will be visited upon them, and that their own sins will be visited against them, for after all, it is what they would do when in power.
Why the distrust of perfectly good, perfectly peaceful things that will benefit everyone? Fear. Fear that behind the smiles is a knife. Fear that no one can do good. Fear, and its twin brother Paranoia, are the diseases and drug of choice among conservatives. They can't trust that health care won't kill them all because they cannot trust, period.
Fear. Fear is everything for conservatives.
Always fear.
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