Why does the world hate American conservatives?

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Vietnam was more than a generation ago. They remember Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada, the Gulf War, Lebanon, Iran-Contra, etc...

The foreign policy establishment of both parties have been ardently pro-war for a long time now, starting wars has been a bipartisan effort as the MIC money flows to both parties.

I was going to say because they're light-skinned (thus fair targets) and they typically won't kill you for speaking out against them. I only included light-skinned in that of course because any other color conservative gets destroyed by the media rather quickly so they typically don't last long as public figures.

Media is 90%+ liberal, and focuses on the small percentage of crazy conservatives to the exclusion the vast majority who are perfectly normal people with a differing set of political beliefs. Even urban liberals in the US often have little to no direct contact with actual conservatives, and get all their ideas about them from the media, without realizing that they're simply being told what they want to hear, that they're the smart ones, that their opponents are all a bunch of religious rubes, etc.

Personally, I could care less what the rest of the world thinks, it's just kind of annoying that the misinformation is so pervasive, I'm still deprogramming my Canadian girlfriend after years of exposure to this garbage.

Hmmm. Lots of interesting ideas. I'd like to point out that although the US has its cultural roots in Europe, some things are very different. We Europeans like to think that Americans are a lot like us, because we are so exposed to American culture, but that is not really the case.

I disagree that American media is dominated by liberals, though. I think it's dominated by corporations. As long as American citizens discuss the pros and cons of abortion and gay marriage, nobody pays attention to where the money goes.

That said, I think some political differences have roots in religious differences. American conservatives are so busy telling themselves that they are more religious than everyone else, and European social democrats are so busy telling themselves they are less religious than everyone else, that everyone ignores the religious foundation of their political ideas.

The US has a particular brand of protestantism that sees worldly goods as a sign of God's favor. As far as I understand, it is similar to the Islamic idea of accepting Allah's blessings and not questioning good fortune. In the rest of the Christian world, money is a dirty word (unless it belongs to the church, of course ). See Matthew 19:24. http://biblehub.com/matthew/19-24.htm

I grew up on that story, and that of the good Samaritan, and the prodigal son. The Orthodox churches have always stuck with the original Christian idea of sanctity through poverty, and it's been kept alive by controversial figures like St. Franciscus. From a European point of view, a lot of American Christians are worshipping Mammon instead of God.

American conservatives make an awful lot of fuss about how socialism is opposed to religion - but social policies like free education and healthcare are right in line with the Christian ideal of giving. Seen through the eyes of European Christians, Americans aren't giving quite hard enough. Americans could have the living standards and the low infant mortality of other industrialized countries, but they choose not to.

> "Why Does The World Hate American Conservatives?"

Because the leftist media is very good at what they do.