Understanding Conservatives

By Leo Gura - March 4, 2023

I share the following video not because I agree with most of it, but because it is an excellent example of a steelmanned conservative worldview — which you will not get if you only watch progressive or liberal media. Which is a big problem.

If you identify as progressive or leftist, I cannot emphasize enough just how badly you misunderstand conservatives. Like… really badly! So badly you’re an embarrassment to yourself and the human race. This does not make conservatives right about everything. It just means you’re deeply fooled by an ideological bubble of your own creation. Which of course, the conservatives are equally guilty of, but that’s doesn’t absolve you of your responsibility for proper understanding. This is not a matter of political battle, this is a matter of PURE UNDERSTANDING. And I’m here to tell you that you’re failing at it.

Of course the above is biased and incomplete. But you DO NOT understand conservatives! Get this through your head!

I am not saying you should vote for them. But I am saying you should understand them accurately. And you will never understand conservatives by listening to progressive analysis. Progressives are incapable of understanding conservatives. That requires a whole quantum leap in consciousness and cognitive development. I want you to not miss this leap in the way that all your progressive friends will. The progressive worldview, while it does have merit, is extremely limited and ignorant about how the world works. I want you to seriously consider that your progressive ideas for government will simply not work in the real world — regardless how right you feel they are.

Just as there are supposedly levels in Hell, there are levels of self-deception. And one of the deepest is the self-deception of managing to convince yourself that your political worldview, be it progressive or conservative — is correct. This is a self-deception that requires awakening from as much as the illusion of a separate ego self. And just because you’ve awoken from the illusion of the ego does not mean you have awoken from the illusion of your political worldview being correct.

Whatever your political worldview, it is wrong! How can this be?? How can it not! — when politics is so impossibly self-deceptive. If you think you understand politics, you’re kidding yourself. The more I study it the more humble I get about it. Not a single human has enough intelligence to know how to structure or govern society. That’s how intelligent society is! It’s way more intelligent than you. So watch out. You’re not intelligent enough to outwit the evolution of civilization.

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Side note: Towards the end in the conversation above, Gingrich and Peterson both start referring the leftists as “simply insane” or “mentally ill”. Haha! Neither of these humans has a clue what true insanity is. Progressives may be foolish, but they are nowhere near insane. And I hope you will not be foolish enough to make the same mistake when thinking about conservatives. If you think conservatives are insane, that just goes to show how deeply you don’t understand them. Conservatives are perfectly sane, they just have a very different worldview than yours. Not wrong. Different! Stop attacking it and go understand it first. You are attacking things you do not understand. That’s the problem.

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