I disagree with the premise of the post. The people you are referring to are not conservatives. Nothing they believe in equates to either classical or philosophical conservatism. I'm very progressive. I've never been a conservative. But even I recognise that such a political philosophy exists. Indeed I studied it at university. These people, like the Trump people, and the Republicans with him, are reactionaries -- radical fascist and oligarchy inclined radical anti- democratic groups, who share nothing with conservatism.

This really misses the point that there are two kinds of conservative, one can almost think of them as Sharks and pilot fish.

1. Rich conservatives who are conservatives because they are determined to stay rich, not matter what the cost,
2. and poor conservatives who have bought in to the myth that because rich conservatives are rich, they are rich BECAUSE they are conservatives and the way to become rich is to become conservative.

The rich c's find the poor c's invaluable because they are stupid and will believe anything they are told by the Rich c, because the poor C invariably believes having money makes you, better wiser, and chosen by god to rule over them.

Poor Cs are necessarily self deluded and stupid, to the point that they will actually vote against their own best interests.
Rich Cs are morally bankrupt and place a monetary value on everything including each other and human life and live accordingly. To them their existence is a balance sheet, and net worth judged only on personal profit and loss, regardless of the consequence.

For example where as a non conservative person, rich or poor would take the trolley thought experiment and find it hard to judge the worth of one life against four, the Rich conservative would ignore both sets of potential victims and instead want to know if everyone ON the tram had paid their fare.
In the same experiment the poor conservative would only consider if the net worth of people on the track (probably decided by how neatly they were dressed) before deciding who lives and who dies.

Conservatives, just like liberals and everyone else, come in a wide range of views. I have friends and family that are conservative. I don't hate them nor do I believe they think this way. This video is rather moronic even if it's meant to be funny.

The poll question really doesn't make sense to me. I'm not confident about how anyone thinks. I can only make a determination based on a person's words and actions.

One could easily flip this and say that conservatives think that all liberals want healthcare that is magically zero cost to anyone and that liberals want to ban cars and eliminate all the police and take away everyones guns and make every drug legal and other equally ridiculous things. It's easy to grossly exaggerate the views of people and lump everyone into one group.

The most dangerous thing they believe is "in god" and that men are superior to women.

hear Beevis & Butthead giggling He said "think" and "conservative" in the same sentence!!! more giggling

I voted 100% because i was a southern baptist conservative. I'm trying to unfuck myself but it's a hard battle so yes i know how they think because it was deeply embedded into me.

Oneof my brothers os a gun-toting hard right-leaning Libertarian...I don't even need to ask, he "informs" me regularly about his beliefs

As I mentioned, I’m not at all confident I understand how conservatives think, but I do detect some patterns in what they think. And I can’t say it’s “wrong” because I tend to see conservative mentality and liberal mentality as some kind of naturally equilibrated pair, in that they are found in all cultures and places. So, “wrong”?, maybe not. But deserving of my balancing opposition?, richly!

They are the component that overly? mistrusts democratic ( small “d” ) governance, and overly? trusts the unrestricted right of individuals to accumulate power.

Is that dangerous? Maybe not as long as the balancing constraints are equally strong. But either side has the capacity for extremism if left unchecked.

A sailing vessel moves forward only by virtue of the opposition between the keel and the sail. Without the ballast keel the sail would turn the boat over. Without the sail, the boat would make no progress.

Who cares? Ya got knuckleheads and pebblebrains on both sides of the aisle.

They think??? I've seen very little evidence of this.

I find that implicit suggestion that most Conservatives are capable of thinking to be absurd.

Conservatives think? Pull the other one.

Imo, you seem to forgotten ONE extra question, i.e, Do they actually have the Mental Capacity to THINK.

Not so fast. The comedian is just non sense. They never said anything remotely like that.

We are are putting words in their mouths. That is not fair. I believe this is what they think:

• violence is not right but this is a war like in 1776, we must fight
• dangerous people should not get guns but it is the second amendment right to have one, responsible owners don't kill, people with mental issues kill, take their guns away
• all news is corrupt and biased and controlled by the left wing liberals and Jews
• everything against them is a conspiracy
• A large number of mail-in-votes for Biden were fake
• Trump is a God send, he is delivering on our issues better than anyone before him
• we need free speech, everybody needs it
• lockdowns should be stopped to return to normalcy, we must develop herd immunity
• Qanon is believable
• global warming is overblown and is being used to hurt by alternative energy lobbyists to hurt coal and oil industry jobs
• we should not allow illegal immigrants and deport criminal immigrants immediately

They truly believe in all the things they believe in. We call them stupid and they call us stupid.

My opinion, for what it is worth, is that conservatives are motivated by greed and anxiety. They are anxious about anything that may change the status quo, in which they are the top dogs. Change of any sort, itself, is frightening to them. A spin-off of this is their greed, as the see having money as the bulwark against which change will beat itself to death. And, they can't have enough, they are like Rocko, the Edward G. Robinson character, who simply wanted "More!"

We ALL need to be more mindful of the information we absorb to feed our beliefs. Clearly the conservatives are more out of control than the rest, but I still see plenty of confirmation bias on the left of this spectrum as well.

Hahahahaaha! They think? Hahahahaha!

Who says conservatives even think at all.

Under the assumption that conservatives think: they want to return the United States to a time prior to the Civil War and they're willing to have another Civil War to accomplish this.

Or, they don't think.

Gathering liberal fodder for your next attack article? Ever consider using facts?

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Given that I am not a mind reader, it's generally impossible to say for certain how anyone thinks.

However, with folks I personally know who self-identify as conservatives, in many cases I can guess the positions they will take on some issues. We often end up opposed on said issues.
It's unfortunate that many who are conservatives automatically assume that anyone who doesn't agree with them simply MUST be a liberal democrat.
I'm neither, yet I am constantly labeled as such.

Personally, I have found that conservatism is generally pretty regressive. That opinion is based on many decades of observation.

For Conservatives any change is too fast. For Progressives, too slow. That democracy is ponderous may be a positive. There are 2 issues where I oppose the "lefts" support & I am aligned with the "right". I am disturbed by that fact, examining my position often. I have voted once for the loyal opposition, but find that it is the left that is on the side of the common citizen & the conservatives lean towards the business owner. Where the balance lies is our dilemma. I am confident that all extremists do not think. They react. Thusly reactionary, be it left or right.

Most of the people I know are identify as Conservative. None of them think exactly alike and some are considerably different..

It's impossible to be comfortable with how conservatives think when they always get everything wrong. The very word, "conservative" gives some insight into their problem. Conservative means to be obstinate, unyielding, and unchanging. They want to hold on to the old ways even if the old ways are corrupt and broken beyond repair.

It would take thinking as misguided as a conservatism to even consider electing scum like Trump to say nothing of holding him up for worship or to have been chosen by some fucked-up divine providence. That goes for other conservative scum like McConnell, Jorden, Graham, Gohmert, King, Nunes, Miller, the list just goes on and on and on and on and...

They hate liberals because we want change. Everything needs to change and they'd rather burn down democracy then allow for anything to be changed. Their thinking is too stilted and dull to allow them to hold any power. Look what they did with it these last four years alone.

They fuck up everything.