It’s not just the left but the educated. This has been apparent since I did a karaoke night with a bunch of scientists and was booed and shutdown because I “sang a song outside of my range” because I thought we were having fun.
People seem to believe in perfection and that it’s the only way to do things which leads to them missing stuff and being jerks to those they don’t realize are growing to resent them.
I think it’s also the unwillingness of the left to accept “baby steps” towards a goal. The right is perfectly happy to inch towards their endgame and it’s working.
This is always my biggest gripe too. Even if the right doesn’t “win,” they take whatever they can get and they hold on to it. They’ll put players in every position and strike together and often. There were tons of interviews of concervatives saying, “I don’t agree on x, but I like y, so I’m voting for Trump.” A lot of the left is “if I can’t get literally every single thing I want right now, then I don’t care if it all burns down.”
As a example, look at slavery. Slavery is abhorrent, but we didn’t stop because we weren’t getting it all. Only half of the country allows us to be free? Alright, we’re running north and we will keep fighting. We learned how to read in poorly funded schools, we sat at colored only tables, we got lesser medical care, lesser resources, but we knew that every small battle was getting closer to winning the war. Yes, it’s painstakingly slow, but we did what we had to do to keep moving. Yeah, Harris was not our savior. She had/has issues, but she also seemed like she wouldn’t be doing, well… gestures wildly.
Agreed. I didn’t hear much if any grumbling from the US conservative base in the decades before Roe was overturned toward their politicians, provided that politician opposed abortion. It was enough they believed the “correct” thing and did what they could within the restrictions of the law, until process aligned in their favor via convenient Supreme Court vacancies.
