It is not an inaccurate or extreme statement to declare that ideological
Republicans do not understand what it means to be human. They view
human beings as economic units to be plugged at their lowest possible
price into a maximally efficient market that provides the greatest
possible returns on investment to the wealthy few, with any resulting
human resentment and misery dulled by humility before a pleasure-fearing
angry God promising rewards to the obedient in the hereafter. It is a
dark, meager, shriveled and cramped vision of humanity.
To accept their worldview is to reject the essence of human identity and
purpose. If human beings could create a sustainable world of plenty
free from violence, war, hunger or want, a world in which human beings
were free to devote 24 hours a day to the leisurely pursuit of whatever
activities they wished so long as they harmed no one else, conservatives
would be terrified.
It's not so much that conservatives don't believe such a world of boundless human potential is possible. It's that they don't want it to be possible.
"Ideological republicans" is redundant.
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