Because conservatives are obsessed with power dynamics and hierarchies. Beating up and abusing the weak and vulnerable are A-1 activities to assert their dominance.
I think it all boils down to empathy. I consider myself moderately left and the main idea about it is, that other people should have a good life too, even if I don't know them, will most likely never meet them or if they are quite different than me. That't why, for example, I'm for equal rights for black people, homosexuals or women although I'm a white heterosexual man. That's why I gladly pay taxes to have schools funded with them, even though I don't have children. That's why I pay a bit more to buy fair trade coffee, so some farmer in Africa or South America can have a somewhat better life. That's why I try to produce little environmental pollution, so people in 100 years can live nicely on this planet as well. That's also why I don't molest children, because I can very well imagine what an absolutely horrible experience it must be for them. This kind of thinking is completely foreign to right wingers and most conservatives, and is mostly ridiculed by them or even met with anger and hatred if you even suggest it to them.
So yeah, they hate people who expect a bit of decency from them and protect the ones that don't.
Because conservatives are sick fucks. Everyone at the conservative subreddit need to be investigated for sex crimes and locked up for the rest of their lives for supporting this shit. Their entire world view is beyond fucked up and they should never be taken seriously again.
The same reason democrats, your mom or you would do it: a sufficient amount of expected wealth or power and no or little fear of the consequences. Everybody has their price.
This is the price of polarisation. Conservatives are better of taking their chances with fascists than working with moderate democrats, and perhaps there are too few democrats willing to reach across the aisle because they are better of siding with the socialists. The radicals will eat the moderates in the long run though.
Question then is why has bipartisanship become a losing strategy? Most likely because voters didn't reward it (I think that was a lesson the republicans learned in the Clinton years). If society demands extremism, politics and the market place will provide it. I don't know if that is where we are, and what feedback mechanisms are currently available to reverse the trend. I am a bit worried though, the anti-neoliberalism movements (radical left and right) to be suggest that it's going to take a long time and lot of effort to repair the damage that is done.
Why do Conservatives protect pedos, criminals, and liars?
Because they are a lot smarter than liberals!!! Conservatives only care about winning - so, they'll ignore any wrongdoing from their side, even pedophilia or rape, in order to heap scorn on the other side. As a result, 100% of what you hear from the right-wing - helps the right-wing win.
It's not the same for the left-wing!
The left-wing will go out of their way to hurt their own (even if they are innocent, like Al Franken), just to show everybody how good they are! They care more about virtue-signalling than winning. Less than 100% of what you hear from the left-wing helps them win. Far less.
The right-wing understands that, if you don't win, you don't get ANYTHING your side wants. So, they'll do anything to win.
The left-wing won't. They'd rather lose than win the wrong way.
As a result, the left-wing gets NONE of what they want. Ever. All the right-wing has to do is make it impossible to win the right way.
EDIT: Ha!!! Your down-votes are only proving my point for me! I'm showing you what you need to do to win - and you don't like it, because it doesn't virtue-signal how good you are!
From an outside perspective, it seems like the powerful are protecting themselves, and they can do so by dividing you into sects that blindly believe the other sect are the bad guys.
Exactly. You have liberals talking about how bad the conservatives are. Yet, Bill Clinton is all over the flight logs and shit. The same Epstein Files that Trump will not release, Biden had a chance to reach. It’s not left vs right, it’s the rich vs the poor/working class. The majority gets wrapped up in all the subdivisions that make them an inferior and much smaller group. The left and right are deeply involved in this shit
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u/Virtual-Nose7777 1d ago
Why do Conservatives protect pedos, criminals, and liars?