Predation

Many people have written on the core difference between conservatives and progressives in America since the beginning of the extreme polarization, which I date to 1994, when Newt Gingrich and his horrible crowd of self-righteous, religious conservatives showed up in Washington. The things I have seen talk about authority and the need for certainty. 

Conservatives love authority and need certainty. The problem is that this is me. I like authority and believe in certainty, that there is truth or true things. I think that authority and truth are always there, that a belief in anarchy is a belief in anarchist authority, for example, and that truth is a matter of belief and that you couldn't get out of bed without it.

A real belief in chaos and meaninglessness would result in the disintegration of one's psyche. So what's up with the Gingrichers? They are not real conservatives. What they believe in is predation. Even this may have validity but they believe in biased predation, a situation in which they can't lose, so you see the roots of this in two things: slavery and inheritance.

The white Southerners in the coalition believe in predation with the situation hopelessly fixed in their favor. The wealthy believe in the same thing. Predation is great as long as they can't lose and the power can't be turned against them. Speaking from the point of view of the prey, this is not fair. If they want a death fight, okay, let's give it back. 

Let the bullies be bullied. They scream and squawk whenever there's a hint of this, as bullies always do, because they are cowards. They never realize the consequences of the system they adhere to, at least the negative ones. They dump all that on us. Enough, I say.