Reply #14: People we look on as having been good and enlightened thought like that.

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Reading their work can be incredibly shocking for us today. But it's important to do it. For one thing, many Republicans still think that way. In their worldview, they only think the way everybody they ever knew has always thought and our views are bizarre and new and strange and unsettling. They are "conservative" in that they still preserve the views of their grandfathers. It isn't that they are bad or evil, although the results of their thinking are, it's that they see a virtue in preserving a world in which the white Christian male ruled. It made them happy and secure and they want to keep it forever. I tend to see a baby clinging to his blue binky when I think of Republicans.