Two kinds of people.
1
I suffered to get where I am, no one should have to go through that, we can do better.
2
I suffered to get where I am, everyone should suffer like I did.
The conservative mindset is #2, “No one should have it better than me!”
A more simpler description is … “the universe should revolve around me and my personal happiness and freedom” … Therefore … “If anyone disagrees with that, then they are communists and anarchists that want to destroy world order … my world order”
Ok my dumbass doesn’t know what that word means lmao. Thought it meant great excess, luxury, etc. but it’s more all the negative things associated with those.
A process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline, as in morals or art; decay.
Imagine thinking decadence is a bad thing
“are children today too happy and well fed?”
Two kinds of people.
1
I suffered to get where I am, no one should have to go through that, we can do better.
2
I suffered to get where I am, everyone should suffer like I did.
The conservative mindset is #2, “No one should have it better than me!”
You’re forgetting 3. If people who are in an out-group aren’t suffering more than I am, I feel oppressed.
A more simpler description is … “the universe should revolve around me and my personal happiness and freedom” … Therefore … “If anyone disagrees with that, then they are communists and anarchists that want to destroy world order … my world order”
It’s a mentality that always revolves around them
Decadence while ~60% of the us live paycheck to paycheck def is
Yeah, but that’s not the decadence they’re talking about. They mean things like “feeling like yourself” and “having good sex.”
Ok my dumbass doesn’t know what that word means lmao. Thought it meant great excess, luxury, etc. but it’s more all the negative things associated with those.
I think the big issue is that the Republican definition for it is closer to: when minorities have it too good by not being murdered often enough.