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- Oct 12, 2021
Conservative movements don't really Evangelize and typically they are hesitant to change unless grounded in fairly rational means. Liberals got involved in education and media, their ideas are basically the default even though I wouldn't call them liberals. Typically conservative thought is found in a lot of older philosophy, a lot of liberal ideals won because humanity is really in an odd times. We have no real stressors, economies at the current scale are hard to comprehend, and cities even at the turn of the century caused major psychological problems for people living in them.
Typically the US was never a place for freedom of living together. You'd found an enclave and tell everyone else to fuck off and trade only because you'd have to. Then little by little neighbors exchanged ideas and they became familiar, but if you didn't you could always move out West. Before the Revolutionary War, Catholics and Jews experienced a lot of harassment even in places where they had a lot of influence. Only reason why the US has freedom of religion was because Catholics and Jews supported the Revolutionary War in by a disproportionate amount. Speech was for a number of reasons that are pretty self-evident.
Easiest answer is that liberal ideas are really attractive to people who make money off of a global market place, they don't need to plant roots they just need to keep moving. New immigrants don't worry about the long run especially if you can keep them worrying about making the bare minimum. You think people would get away with laughing about nuking their own people in a rational world? Even as a joke, it means they entertained the idea...
Typically the US was never a place for freedom of living together. You'd found an enclave and tell everyone else to fuck off and trade only because you'd have to. Then little by little neighbors exchanged ideas and they became familiar, but if you didn't you could always move out West. Before the Revolutionary War, Catholics and Jews experienced a lot of harassment even in places where they had a lot of influence. Only reason why the US has freedom of religion was because Catholics and Jews supported the Revolutionary War in by a disproportionate amount. Speech was for a number of reasons that are pretty self-evident.
Easiest answer is that liberal ideas are really attractive to people who make money off of a global market place, they don't need to plant roots they just need to keep moving. New immigrants don't worry about the long run especially if you can keep them worrying about making the bare minimum. You think people would get away with laughing about nuking their own people in a rational world? Even as a joke, it means they entertained the idea...