Reply #18: This dilemma is possibly the linchpin of American politics

[ladjf]

The question of why white males, particularly in the South, buy into the conservative rhetoric is possibly the most crucial political question today. It is the same group that rushed into the American Civil war.

Most of the posts in this thread have been correct but none offered a comprehensive solution. Somehow, the total answer is escaping us all. I believe that it's something deeper in the psyche of the male brain, something totally primeval and incompressible by the modern mind. Males seem to have a fundamental harshness of philosophy that steers them away for philosophies that believe in protecting and nurturing the less fortunate in society. Their philosophies of "every man for himself" and that greed and self-centeredness are the norms of life, attracts them political policies that are created with the same values. They follow right wing fascist leaders like moths to a flame and don't realize their mistake until it's too late.

(I'm a 68 yr. old male from Mississippi.)