Political Humor

Unfortunately I think the people who most need to understand why you'd be jealous, as well as why these gals would hold up "don't destroy us plz" signs while being all attention grabbing, will not be answering the phone.

I was raised in 80s and 90s maga world before it had a brand. And there are two things that I consistently see them do, which makes a lot of sense vis-a-vis the recent saying about conservatism having the in group the law protects and the out group it binds. It is these two things that blind them to the various messages of human rights. (there's a depressing sentence to honestly write about real people I know)

First they generalize, caricaturize, and exclude. They lump in these non-cis protesters right along with the non-christians, non-straights, non-whites, and various other "why can't you just be a normal person" rest of humanities.

The racism, bigotry, and LGBT+phobias are a convenient way to narrow down one's perceived size of the "in group" candidate pool, which obviously still includes them. They are not in the leopards' food chain. Obviously.

The second thing they do is conform. It goes hand in hand with the bigotry of course, but it also has to do with the fucked up psychology that goes into keeping up appearances and covering up the family's skeletons so that you always look like one of the in-group. Like if your princess needed an abortion, not only was HER's obviously the rare moral one, but nobody needs to know about it because she has her whole future ahead of her!

That's just tribalism, sure. And conservatives are bad about it in general, yes. But they can be REALLY bad about it when it comes to money, because they hate poor people. Even if they are poor. Because they need somebody to look down on. But even "good folks" can be rebranded as "poor white trash" if they don't maintain the perceived standards of the in-group.

Wilhoit's law:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

After writing this post I'm thinking Wilhoit's law might just exactly right, so there's the text.