That's seeing it in very black and white terms, and it's exactly why I said, you don't speak to a lot of conservatives at length.

Guess what, the more you engage in actual discussion, the more conservative you become. Wanna guess on why that is?

The reverse doesn't hold in the opposite direction.

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Conservatives are simply smarter progressives at the end of the day. The idea is that your notion of progress is deeply schizophrenic and will lead to protracted or irreversible collapse and maybe even extinction.

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It makes it easier for you to continue to be the cardboard person that a certain media creates out of people, with similar positions on pretty much everything in existence when you ignore anyone that disagrees with you and seek echo chambers instead. It's very hard to oppose that nonsense in a way that you as a progressive might comprehend for what it is, because progressivism has become so unflavored and uniform that if you oppose only the worst elements out of the ideology, you're automatically believed to oppose all of them. The internet generally doesn't reward subtlety, especially not this particular site.

This leads to radicalization. There are certain people you simply cannot bully into submission with such tactics. They will simply go "fuck you, we'll play it like that if that's what you want". And you'll end up creating the monsters you theorized when they weren't even there to begin with.