Blue tribe is starting to win by adopting the best of conservative values
I was ~30 years old when I learned how to think for myself. Since then I’ve been getting a lot of insights about how the world works. A big one was: “conservative” is not good or bad, it’s a tool:
Saying that conservatism is about being anti progress is like saying that the brakes in your car are there to stop the car from moving
This is obvious if you look clearly at the problems in the world & why they’re not getting better. My path to this was to admit I know nothing, and to earnestly talk to everyone on twitter from both sides. I noticed a pattern; people are attached to tools:
The reason for this is that tool Y is how they identify their tribe. If you suggest using tool Z, you are pushing in the wrong direction. You’re making the world a worse place, and why would you do that?? (what if tool Z solves the problem? no, don’t say that, people who use tool Z are bad people!)
The twist here is that they are not wrong for drawing a line around “bad people”. The mistake is in equating “anyone who uses this tool” with the bad people. That limits your access to the tool, and you fail to solve problems that need it.
