Nobody should ever forget what conservatism is definitionally about:
It is a fundamental belief that some groups are "inherently superior" to others, and that those who are "inherently inferior" deserve to be exploited. I fundamentally, inherently think that's not just morally wrong and disgusting, but nonsensical. How are we supposed to be the judge on who's "inferior" or "superior" if we don't actually understand others as human being? How can we call ourselves an arbiter of the truth if we're not willing to listen to people who are different versus jumping to conclusions that they're good or bad? You cannot be actually a good person if you have no interest in the reality of other human beings and you just categorically write them off as bad people who deserve to suffer because you cannot handle ambiguity, and it's stuff like this which is why I choose to keep my mind open to demographics that many Gen. Z progressives who claim they think that will suddenly think you're going "too far" and support revanchists to remove them from society from virtuous pedophiles (aka pedophiles who hate their condition and know its wrong and want to get help/avoid hurting kids) to any future transracial or transhuman demographics, regardless of nuance, context or hidden depths. That's just wrong to me to say anyone deserves bullying, exploitation or harm for whatever reason, especially if you support violence on people who don't even do anything wrong than 'waaaaaaaaaaaah, they make me UNCOMFY by them just existing in the same space as me! Daddy, make them go away!'.
This is why I find the idea certain groups are inherently superior and inferior people deserve to be exploited is wrong. Flat-out, it's wrong. Not just morally, but logically too. And to me, at least, there are no inferior peoples with the sole exception of peoples who insist others being exploited is somehow okay.
And that's what conservatism is about, and why Trump and MAGA shuffle each other around protecting themselves like Catholic Church sex offenders. They're the in-group, and anyone who's not in their group doesn't deserve basic human rights like food, shelter, water, bodily autonomy... make no mistake, if they didn't relish in seeing those they hate suffer, they wouldn't keep playing that overused video of that green-jacket person screaming no over Trump's election, because they're monsters who get off to the suffering. And don't think for a minute that they're even the majority; rather, more terrifying, they're abetted by people and accomplices who claim they support LGBTQ+ people, black rights, immigration or whatever, but each and every time, they vote red on the party ticket, and while claiming they're fine with those groups, really don't seem to be very opposed to watching them get put away because they've decided national security meant more than the suffering of other people. It's fundamentally not just a select few monsters wanting to get away with their atrocities to no consequences; it's people who are perfectly decent otherwise but utterly complicit in this. That's the true horror of it, how banal it really is.
There's really two conclusions you can take away from this: either a.) they genuinely do not fucking get for whatever reason what they're doing or somehow cannot comprehend the consequences of their decisions, or b.) they know perfectly well and just do not give enough of a shit to do anything about it unless it somehow involves them. While I think there's people in both camps (and believe me, anyone who fits option b.) is worth setting phasers to 'kill' over), personally, as somebody who wants to believe in the good of humanity (and indeed, I have been proven such time and time again), I think the simpler explanation is option a.) because of Hanlon's Razor; never assume malice when incompetence is an equally valid explanation. A lot of people out there are morons who don't know what's best for them or have almost no education, and it's not because they're bad people in the slightest, but I think they genuinely just cannot get it simply due to how their brain perceived ambiguous threat and valuing safety over human rights, even if they value both.
I think that's, if anything, the scariest part of this; kids are in cages and were raped by ICE, numerous people are dead, the economy has crashed, and we came this close to a fascist takeover that would've happened if Trump and his lackeys weren't miraculously an incompetent gaggle of morons... all because of a collective failure on a lot of people's parts for incompetence and bystander syndrome.
America didn't fail her people. Her people failed America.
