Quote (Thor123422 @ Jul 8 2020 05:58pm)
I really like how it manifests into "schrodinger's immigrant", they are so lazy and yet they are taking all the hard jobs nobody wants. They are peaceful salt of the earth working class when you talk about how they are catholic, but evil rapists when Trump needs to rally the base on how we need to build a wall.
It happens pretty much everywhere. The good parts are molded into the culture, like how MLK has been whitewashed to hell, and the bad parts are used as rallying points.
I ultimately see conservatism in the modern U.S. as a group of people fundamentally unable to adapt. They have found themselves in an interconnected world that values critical thought and flexibility and find themselves unable to keep up, and with that inability they are unable to affect change. In the before-time they were effective because small communities could rally people to political causes and join together to stop change. However, now that we are interconnected the isolated communities no longer have sway over their members. It's far easier to sway people to action over the internet than it is to talk to your neighbors.
These logical inconsistencies are common in all mainstream ideological circles. The American left has a tendency to simplify conflict roles into "oppressor" and "oppressed", which leads to some ridiculous outcomes where religious social conservatism is both celebrated (Muslims) and mocked (Christians), based on the lens through which the liberal is seeing those respective conflicts.
American conservatism is mostly opposed to immigration on two fronts. One, that welfare is incompatible with open borders. Two, that significant cultural gaps require caps on the number of immigrants allowed in to allow time for the host country to assimilate the new population.