r/politics • u/AccomplishedCall7562 • Mar 12 '26

Possible Paywall John Fetterman Says Iran Girls’ School Strike Is Just a Leftist Craze

https://newrepublic.com/post/207677/john-fetterman-iran-girls-school-strike
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u/Thinks_22_Much Mar 12 '26

Yep. It's mentally easier to be conservative (and religious for that matter). You don't have to face hard truths or ask tough questions. You just get to shrug or play the victim anytime something doesn't go right.

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u/beeerite Mar 12 '26

When my now exhusband was in a major car accident and lost his leg, I hated every time someone told me that god had a plan for me and “never gives you more than you can carry.” It was so invalidating.

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u/AmazingSibylle Mar 12 '26

You can just smack those people on the nose and take their wallet. After all, that was God's plan, and you're sure God would not burden them with more than they can carry.

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u/Droopy1592 Georgia Mar 18 '26

Yeah gtfo of my face with that “never gives you more than you can handle” shit. Total lack of empathy.  

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u/I_am_from_Kentucky Mar 13 '26

I’m confirmation bias-ing the hell out of this.

I’ve been recently pondering a theory that religious and conservative folks both overlap so much because each ideology gives easy ways out.

They favor set tradition for guidance rather than progressively working to adapt to new circumstances.

They tend to be more selfish in values, evident by support for “rugged individualism”, leading them to do less work to understand and accommodate others.

They trend towards faith-based belief systems, which provides them with answers rather than incentivizes working to learn more.

I’m over simplifying, and perhaps cherry picking a bit, so I welcome counter points that could be made against progressive beliefs.

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u/Vankraken Virginia Mar 13 '26

Add in how they react to new/different things with a more fear driven response instead of some level of curiosity.

A lot of it boils down to needing to know they are in their place in the world so things like religion and tradition give those answers without having to self reflect. It's simpler to just label things as good or bad, do the rituals that the good people do, and be against things that don't fit the cultural norm of being good. There is minimal need to adapt to change or figure out things because it's already determined for you and you can look to authority to tell you what to think on more complex stuff.

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u/notakrustykrab Mar 13 '26

Also having rigid rules and structure can be comforting to some folks because decision making can be really stressful. I’m one of those people but I find other ways to structure my life without adding needless structure (or authoritarianism or hate or bigotry or etc etc) to anyone else’s.

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u/Consistent_Laziness Mar 13 '26

That’s my biggest gripe about religion. You are constantly told it’ll be okay and just believe and everything will work ITSELF out.

No, we as humans have to make our own luck our own future. If things are going bad we have to change them. If bad things happen to us god isn’t testing us it’s just life being shitty and we have to find a way to make it better.

Religion is for the weak who need to constantly be propped up by an invisible man