It's because basically all of modern American conservatism is projection - they excuse all of the horrible things they do based on the idea that liberals would do the same if they had the chance. Why do they hate liberals? Because they imagine liberals hate them.
The sad part is that liberals DON'T do the same things they do. They don't have the same hatred for conservatives that conservatives have for liberals. Liberals have plenty of problems of their own but the disease in our country is a right wing reactionary mob that would rather see the country burn than admit their time is over. The way you justify burning the country is by convincing yourself the other side is just as bad, and useful/dishonest idiots like Starbuck help them do it. (don't forget, Starbuck doctored a news story to try and convince people liberals were to blame in Portland)
We have been putting this conflict off for years but I am personally scared to see what will happen if/when Trump loses and that reactionary mob has to face reality. I think it won't be pretty.
Love your stuff. I believe it is always the more conscious among us that will have to shoulder the greater emotional pain, who do and have done so throughout history who need to do the heavy lifting.
The left, the liberal, those most morally animated to see justice and equality have two of the most important moral concerns untrammeled by the many more moral concerns that animate conservatives. In short, liberals have fewer sacred cows than conservatives and thus fewer areas where they can be morally duplicitous, fewer targets or areas by which conditioning can fuck them up. You won’t find, for example, so many religious crack pots, so many perverted moral disciplinarians.
And thus, among liberals we can expect to see less need to engage in altered reality thinking, rationalization and cult group clinging.
It is the job, then, In my opinion, for liberals to take the lead in the process of psychological education, to teach what can be learned by self analysis and introspection, to affirm the greater moral values that conservatives and their proper place in terms of survival value they can impart to society, but only when in their proper form and not all fucked up as has happened in competitive conservative America, not when they lead to a backward, self hating anti science, fearful collection of cult worshipers.
Without justice and equality all moral values become corrupted but they can never be achieved by force of authoritarian rule. They can only be achieved by compassion and light. And so it is that light that must be brought, the light that lack of compassion can’t be tolerated, that truth must be spoken to the evil of reliance of power, and that truth is a mirror of horrors.
We are as we are because we had to be to survive, that the love of the good we believe our ideologies represent in nothing but ego protection, a protection we needed to survive as children but can be abandoned for the real good that was, is, and will always be written in our genes, that we sleep and need the courage to awaken.
Liberals exercise the greater capacity to reason without fear, to see things rationally, but what they fear most is irrationality and fear is hate. But there is a perfectly rational reason why people are irrational, it is so they don’t feel their own self hate, and that was the only way we could survive as children. We had to die psychologically in order to survive. There in nobody to blame for this and no one we can justifiably hate.
It Is this burden that truly progressive liberals must bear, that they be the first not to hate that they do the best they can to trust that love is real. On Earth as it is in Heaven. If we create a heaven for the other we will find ourselves there.