re: #3 Anymouse 🌹

ERDMAN: Western Nebraska paying the price for Colorado’s marijuana legalization

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I personally know Steve Erdman. He’s a nice enough guy, but like other conservatives, he treats conservative tenets like a religious holy text (never to be questioned).

A personality trait that is diagnostic of self-declared “conservatives”. They are very much into an escapist view of life, one in which religious urges are thought of as the most important of human action.

The ability to question oneself intensely enough to make oneself uncomfortable is the opposite of what American conservatism is all about. American conservatism is about finding surety, even if the object of that surety is imaginary.

This also is why good artists tend to not be “conservative”, as the creation of art is directly tied to the angst one allows oneself to feel. Art is about communication through expression, and expression is the opposite of repression.