Yes. All of this. We’re a team when I need something from you. When I’m good and I can tell myself that ‘I got here by myself’, then the empathy is nowhere near what they want in return. It’s a tough group of folks to tolerate due to the lack of consistency and their embarrassing failure to follow the golden rule they were once quick to reference.

The tradition and order part is the scariest one for me. Forever, I have considered Murrica to be operating as a loose caste system. Of course, you CAN ascend well beyond whatever ‘class’ you were born into, but there’s going to energy coming against you if you ‘move up too much’...especially if you are not white. Entertainment and sports folks deal with this all the time. So, to me, the worst conservative folks think it is their call to decide who can and can’t ‘move up’. And what upward mobility is valid and which ones are ‘bullshit’. Or how much should be enough. Ask a maga about any famous black singer or rapper. Enjoy the loaded responses.

Or in the nfl, see the replies when a white qb gets a new contract vs when the growing number of black qbs get one. This was maid absurdly clear when Christian McCaffrey got paid vs the reaction to Kamara or the other guys getting their money.

>>I used to answer this question by saying: limited
>>role/function of government, self reliance, focus tradition
>>and order. But now, who knows
>
>.. when I mentioned "it's not important until it happens to
>me." I think even the "self reliance" thing is built on racism
>and bigotry as well. In that, white people have a much easier
>time being "self reliant" since we have a 400 year head start
>in terms of wealth, resources, and opportunity at our
>disposal.
>
>But funny how "self reliance" takes a back seat when white
>people face even the slightest inconveniences. I wouldn't call
>this particular example a "slight" inconvenience, it's pretty
>serious - but the situation in Texas right now is a good
>example of what I'm talking about. Two weeks ago they were all
>"fuck the feds !!" and talking about secession. Now they're
>begging for federal funds because they got 2 inches of snow.
>
>Again, it's very serious and I don't mean to minimalize what
>the *people* of the greater Austin area are going thru - it's
>horrible and I wish them well. I'm talking about the Governor
>and politicians who found it acceptable to laugh at other
>states who needed fed funds in the past, openly. Who are now
>begging for funds themselves.