{"id":1042,"date":"2016-05-18T03:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T10:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:00","slug":"the-problem-with-conservativeslibertarianstpers-and-liberalsprogressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/opinions-on-politics-culture-society\/the-problem-with-conservativeslibertarianstpers-and-liberalsprogressives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Conservatives\/Libertarians\/TPers and Liberals\/Progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m an outlier. I believe in compassionate treatment for those who demonstrate a sense of responsibility for self and to others, but tend toward skepticism in aiding and abetting those who repeatedly demonstrate a complete lack thereof. And that&#8217;s why I just can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t embrace either of the attitudes exhibited by the Conservatives\/Libertarians\/TPers or the Liberals\/Progressives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I see it, Conservatives\/Libertarians\/TPers measure worth of an individual by outward appearances, blithely ignoring factors that may contribute to an individual&#8217;s failure to achieve despite their hard work and best efforts, namely luck and opportunity (which is tied to luck).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Likewise, the Liberals\/Progressives are equally remiss because they turn a blind eye to the fact that there are people who do NOT want to put forth any effort whatsoever to become responsible members of society. Liberals\/Progressives seem to think that everyone, if given a chance, will, sooner or later, come around and give up their choice of addictive behavior, whether that&#8217;s violence against others, indolence, or feeding some personal craving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both camps ignore\u00a0reality, the Right condemning anyone as indolent who can&#8217;t make it, despite best efforts, the Left embracing everyone <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(except those who don&#8217;t embrace their ideological platform)<\/span> as inherently and potentially model citizens if just given enough incentive and opportunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Can we have some balanced approach that acknowledges reality?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an outlier. I believe in compassionate treatment for those who demonstrate a sense of responsibility for self and to others, but tend toward skepticism in aiding and abetting those who repeatedly demonstrate a complete lack thereof. And that&#8217;s why I just can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t embrace either of the attitudes exhibited by the Conservatives\/Libertarians\/TPers or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[115,31,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}