Friday, November 20, 2009

Beliefs are mirrored

I thought of my own pithy little idea.
Let's just go with the general understanding that people with more conservative values tend to have religious ones as well, and people with more liberal values tend to be agnostic/atheist.
LET'S JUST SAY THAT. This is the assumption for my little idea.

Liberals think it's so silly that conservatives put their beliefs into religion -- "that could never happen", where conservatives find it so silly that liberals put their beliefs into politics -- "that could never work".

For example, conservatives are typically practical and don't believe in change, so much. They don't have much of a dream for society, they just like to stay the same and believe what they've always believed. They have faith in the familiar.
Alternately, liberals are typically open-minded to new things and advocate change, so they are dreamers in a political sense. They have hope that there will be a flawless system.

You can't stereotype either wing, I know, but it's interesting that each side has its own "silly" belief system that the other side just cannot seem to understand.

When I say conservatives, I do NOT mean neocons, by the way. Think WASP.

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