Is there a particular fact I shared that you're disputing, or does "full of shit" for you mean less "wrong about the facts" and more "hurtful to my feelings"?
No. I think the key difference is compassion. Many liberals, like me, have been economically successful, but we see that as coming with a moral obligation to pay it forward to others, to increase their chances to be successful, too. I think the conservative mindset is more like "well, I made it across that bridge, so it's time to burn it to the ground, so nobody uses it to overtake me."
As for Massachusetts being conservative, I suppose it depends on what you call conservative versus liberal. In the very traditional sense of the word "conservative," you could call Massachusetts conservative since it's full of people who favor policies that conserve our natural resources, for example, and people who favor taking a cautious approach when it comes to burdening the environment with pollutants. In that traditional sense, the radicals are those right-wingers in a rush to burn up all our fossil fuels and dump that into the air, blindly taking our chances with climate change.
However, in the sense that "conservative" is generally used in the US, Massachusetts is about as far from conservative as communities get here. It's a state that has voted for a Democrat for president in all but two elections in the last 60 years (even when a home-grown Republican, Romney, was on the ballot). It's a state where over 90% of the senate is Democrat, along with over 80% of the lower house of the legislature, and that hard tilt left has continued year after year for decades. It's a state where the biggest city hasn't elected a Republican mayor in about a century. It's a state that sends Congress members to Washington who routinely rank among the most liberal in the country. For example, Voteview's rank ordering by actual votes put Warren as the most liberal senator in the last session, while Markey was 5th-most liberal. Even the most conservative member of Massachusetts's Congressional delegation, Moulton is more liberal than 60% of the House.
https://voteview.com/congress/senate
It's a state that was first in the nation to embrace gay marriage. It's a state where Trump lost every county in both the elections, and where Biden demolished him by over 30 points. It's a state where even the leading Republicans, like Charlie Baker, tend to be pro-choice, pro-environmentalism, pro-gun-control, and anti-Trump
https://www.boston.com/news/politics...ational-model/
If that's "conservative," then it would be great if there were more "conservative Republicans" in this country.
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