If empathy is a fundamental human quality, how can conservatives be considered human?

@CopperCicada Are you suggesting that I can't empathize with people who irrationally hate or fear? Because I completely disagree on that point.

@daisymay I mean generalizing a group of people on the basis of their worst representatives.

@CopperCicada It's not my fault they self-identify with a tainted brand.

@daisymay I know conservatives who hate Trump. Even conservatives who hate the GOP.

@CopperCicada Daisy refuses to see this point but it doesn't suit their narrative.

@CopperCicada [quote]I know conservatives who hate Trump. Even conservatives who hate the GOP.[/quote]

I know people like that, too. They're angry that Hillary isn't in jail, the wall isn't built, and that he hasn't issued a call to purge liberals from the nation yet.

@daisymay Actually... most people I've met aren't the caricatures we get on the internet. Right or left.

There actually was a conservatism before Trump. Before Limbaugh, Beck. Hannity. Alex Jones. Before Paul Ryan. McConnell. Before anti anti-Obama and anti-Hillary shit.

I got no beef with them.

I love my conservative friends.

I respect the ones who are genuinely conservative by principle and not just political sycophants.

@CopperCicada The mythical "real conservatives" from more than 3 decades ago? What are there, like 5 of them left in the places of power?

The zealots far outnumber those creatures of legend.