Explain This To Me Like I'm A Complete Idiot, Part 16: "Exceptional", just like everyone else?

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2. It's simple. Conservatives don't believe in equality.*

The natural order and natural sorting out that makes such good, gut sense to them is an inherently unequal one.

By personality, notably, conservatives are comfortable with an inequality they see as natural and ultimately right, comfortable both with greater advantages accruing to those "above" them and with having greater advantages over those "below" them. In the big picture, over time more deserving people rise in this natural hierarchy and less deserving do not, or even bring themselves down.

Simple stuff. What was not for Jefferson and Lincoln to understand?

* This is one of the 3 basic, innate personality differences between conservative and liberal personalities -- liberals are NOT accepting of inequality, neither for themselves nor for others. And we wonder why we don't agree on how to run a country.