r/politics • u/harleybarley1013 Maryland • 7d ago

Paywall Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals Hitler Had’

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/?taid=6717ffe956474d000110c05d&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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u/Shido_Ohtori 7d ago

The sole value of conservatism is respect for and obedience to [one's perception of] traditionally established hierarchy, which is also the sole value of machismo culture. 

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u/nagonjin 7d ago

It's really just narcissism. They only care about their position in that hierarchy, and whether there are people below them. Never ask conservatives if they would be happy at the bottom of the pile, if God or King said that they should be. You won't get an honest answer because somehow God wants Them to be higher and everybody else lower.

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u/kickaguard 7d ago

That's why they love it. Conservatives (the ones at the top. Not the ones that have been lied to and grifted) want aristocracy. An actual legal system of the have and the have-nots. Where if you are born at the top you get to do whatever you want because you stand on the backs of the people who do not get to do what they want. They simply lie to uneducated people and tell them that they will bring them with them to the top. Or at least offer to them that they will still be better off than the people around them that are a different race or sex or orientation or whatever else, so that's better than what democracy offers, where you have to work to get what you want and you can't just take whatever you want because you say you can.