Edwin: And what is that value?
Markos: I don’t think they know it’s delusion. I think they value their ideology. I think they want things to be a certain way. You know, you’re conservative, and you have this idea of this ideal past that was so much better than the present, and you need to cling to that. You know, an era where gay people did not exist, and science and medicine did not challenge religion, religious tenets. And they want to retreat to that past.
And reality is very, very much in opposition to that world view. So they have to create this delusional world view for it to continue to survive.
Edwin: Do you have a metaphor for failed conservative values, a type of land or animal?
Markos: It’s like a dodo bird, ill-equipped to adapt or evolve to a change in environment. The world is passing them by, and they are clinging to an outmoded and even non-existent view of what life should be like.
They’ve been able through money and through subterfuge – and a lot of BS – they’ve been able to sell their agenda for awhile to the American people, but now the country’s never been more unhappy with the direction of the country, and it’s because of the mess they’ve made.
Delusion at Wikipedia
A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. In psychiatry, the definition is necessarily more precise and implies that the belief is pathological (the result of an illness or illness process). As a pathology it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information or certain effects of perception which would more properly be termed an apperception or illusion.Self-delusion is the state of having a false idea about yourself or the situation you are in.
Failed Conservative Values
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