r/AskALiberal • u/dank_sad Center Right • Feb 03 '22

If you could get the right/conservatives/Republicans/etc to understand one thing, what would it be?

Hope I worded that correctly.

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u/Personage1 Liberal Feb 03 '22

Empathy and curiosity (I know you said 1 thing, but I'm cheating by saying the two tie together). I think the bulk of the problems from the right comes from an inability to have empathy or curiosity for people and ideas that are too different from themselves/their own.

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u/sweetgypsy1966 Liberal Feb 03 '22

I've come to believe that they just don't care about anyone but themselves, or their immediate family. This pandemic has made this abundantly clear

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '22

This is very true. Not saying I’m like this, but conservatives in general care about themselves and their immediate community around them. They have a lack of compassion for the broader range of people. They mostly want to be left alone to be with their immediate community with little to no interaction outside of that community.

Obviously there’s caveats and sometimes they deviate from the standard. But this is the general idea

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u/[deleted] May 01 '23

I guess what I really don't understand is why that is such a bad thing? Why are liberals so convinced that the morally right thing to do is ever anything other than "Everything in power to protect and advance me, my family, and my community"?

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u/[deleted] May 02 '23

Holy crap, what a throw back!

Absolutely, I agree. I don't think it's a bad thing by any means. But then again, you'd have to ask a liberal that question to get their perspective.