Political Memes

True! It's not unique to the right, but I do think it shows up there a lot. It's a very Objective view of the world (there is a Right and Wrong, outside of culture), and there's more objectivity on the right, and more subjectivity on the left. Not universally, but more.

I think the way this manifests on the left is actually pretty different, perhaps even the opposite, to the way it shows up on at least the current right.

The current right has Good People who can do no Bad, no matter how much wrong they do. So they can get away with a lot, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, and their base will support them anyway because they're still a Good Person.

Whereas on the left we're maybe a bit quick to dismiss someone outright, or lose the forest for the trees, because we think of ourselves as the side of Morality. So there can be a person who does a lot of good, and seems like a Good Person, and then one thing can come out about them, maybe not even a substantiated thing. Maybe something they did 25 years ago, that they would never do today, and in an instant everyone has flipped on them. You see, people are either Good People or Bad People, and if you've done a Bad thing, you must not have been a Good Person afterall! You were a Bad Person in disguise! Thank goodness we caught you and ousted you, so we can continue to be the side of only Good People.

Shouldn't we be the side of spectrums? Of forgiveness? Of growth, and healing, and learning, and rehabilitation? Grace and second chances?

I mean, don't get fooled over and over by the same grifter, but there could at least be some room to say oops, sorry, and then do better going forwards.

I think the current moral question society is wrestling with is along those lines. Something to the effect of, how removed from the outcome of a decision does one need to be in order to absolve themselves of responsibility for that outcome? Essentially, why is it OK for a CEO or a President to cause thousands of deaths by signing a piece of paper but not OK for that same person to go out and shoot those thousand people one at a time? The outcome is the same there's just more obfuscation along the way in the first case. The greed motivation seems to be the difference. The CEO isn't usually killing people because he wants them dead, he's doing it because he views them as acceptable casualties in his quest to make money.

Charlie Kirk is a great example of that phenomenon as well. He may not have directly shot anybody but he undoubtedly influenced people towards doing exactly that. To what degree should he bear the blame for their actions? He certainly didn't do it in complete ignorance of the possibility that people could die but does the separation from the actual crime make his actions morally acceptable? Does it make any difference if his motivations were money and power as opposed to bigotry and hatred?

Right exactly! Like the sibling comment says, in their minds Trans people are Bad. You can tell because "they're sick". (I don't believe this, I'm mimicking this mindset). Minorities are Bad. You can tell because they don't have money, they do different stuff than I do, which is Good stuff, and they do crimes and are bad parents or whatever. Doesn't matter what.

So anyway, this Knight of Justice, Paragon of Good, was out there saying the Good People are being passed over in favour of the Bad People, which is obviously unacceptable. And that the problems with society aren't caused by Good People, they're caused by Bad People. And then right in the middle of his speech, a Bad Person shoots and kills him! How do we know they were a Bad Person without knowing who they are? It's self-evident because no Good Person would kill another Good Person.

This is like if Superman died, and then the credits rolled! That's not the way this is meant to go! This is an afront to nature! This is a tragedy. To them.

That's all part of it. Those people all fit under "bad people", and it's up to "good people" to protect society from them.

It makes more "sense" if you think of Jack Bauer as being a guide to morality.

Splitting isn't BPD specific, but it is heavily associated with all cluster B disorders.

SAW loomer syndrome.

Systemic defunding of education, and the denigration of critical thinking as a concept.

Considering studies have shown that conservatives have, on average, smaller parts of the brain that are related to things like empathy and higher rates of aggressive personality disorders and the like, I'd say all of the above. Bigotry is learned, not natural, but people are also emotion based and don't like to be proven wrong, so facts and logic don't really convince many people. It's why so many conservatives only change their opinions when it happens to them, and why so many who do have it happen to them continue to do the thing that hurts them.