It would shut down the argument, if they were arguing in good faith.
Conservatives don’t care about facts, reality, or hypocrisy. They want to win because they are good.
This is critical, you aren’t arguing with a Conservative’s ideas, because they don’t believe in ideas or values or causes. Conservatives believe in themselves and therefore whatever they say, whatever they do, whatever they want, it’s all righteous. If they have facts wrong, fuck the facts. If they commit crimes, the laws are wrong. Existence is the only justification they need to support whatever is most beneficial to themselves at any given moment in time. I am, therefore I am right.
And we got six of these motherfuckers on the SCOTUS.
While true, if someone they didn’t like did the exact thing they did and received the same punishment, they would still see their own selves as unjustly punished and the other person justly punished.
It would shut down the argument, if they were arguing in good faith.
Conservatives don’t care about facts, reality, or hypocrisy. They want to win because they are good.
This is critical, you aren’t arguing with a Conservative’s ideas, because they don’t believe in ideas or values or causes. Conservatives believe in themselves and therefore whatever they say, whatever they do, whatever they want, it’s all righteous. If they have facts wrong, fuck the facts. If they commit crimes, the laws are wrong. Existence is the only justification they need to support whatever is most beneficial to themselves at any given moment in time. I am, therefore I am right.
And we got six of these motherfuckers on the SCOTUS.
To be fair, this reasoning actually holds up for a very large proportion of our laws.
While true, if someone they didn’t like did the exact thing they did and received the same punishment, they would still see their own selves as unjustly punished and the other person justly punished.
See: The Only Moral Abortion Is My Abortion
Perfectly stated! Incredibly frustrating to read, but you’re 100% right.
The alt right playbook is worth a watch, but you have fully summed it up in a concise way that is an easy tl;dr.
“In not interested in reality” really sums up their entire position, doesn’t it?
We have to use their own weapon against them: We go all in on Originalism! Make Originalism Good Again!