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In the 60’s and 70’s it wasn't uncommon for teachers to abuse students.Yes ‘state sanctioned’ abuse was a policy implemented by the Australian Government and perpetrated by teachers on innocent children.Today its a ‘jailable’ offense.“’School corporal punishment refers to inflicting deliberate physical and emotional pain or discomfort….. It often involves striking the student…. especially at the primary school and junior secondary school levels’”“Opponents, including a number of medical and psychological societies, along with human-rights groups, argue that physical punishment is ineffective in the long term, interferes with learning, leads to antisocial behavior as well as various forms of mental distress, disproportionately affects students of color, and is a form of violence that breaches the rights of children”One day when i was in 6th grade at Beverly Hills Primary School, I was assaulted by my Teacher. A tall scary man who had no qualms in hurting a child.He had placed a clock face out the front of the class with movable hands and was asking for students to tell the time.I had difficulty in telling the difference between a quarter to three and a quarter past three. The word ‘quarter’ confused me.So he picks me out of the class to tell him the time. I was afraid to answer because I knew it would be wrong as I stood at my desk and said nothing after fumbling around in my mind.He drags me out to the front of the class by my arm and pushes my head towards the clock getting angry, demanding I tell him the time.By now I’m trembling and my mind is a total blank.He pulls me towards the front desk and bends me over. He grabs one of the students recorders and starts beating me on my buttocks until it bursts into three parts scattering over the room.I am crying and humiliated.He pulls me by my collar and ‘throws ‘ me in the direction of my desk and tells me to sit downI hide my head in shame for the rest of the day.

Yes, progressives are often smug, condescending and arrogant.And yes, many of them have a victimhood mentality.I can see that many answers have addressed those aspects well.But truth be told, several of my fellow conservatives are that way.You don't believe me?Go check out the comments section not of Fox News online (that one is nearly as bad as YouTube) but even such well regarded sources and publications as National Review or Townhall. I sometimes feel that if the conservative and erudite authors of those articles were to read the comments sections below their well-articulated opinion pieces, they would bury their heads in their hands.But first, let me say this - Look, I’m not trying in the least to be all ‘ let's hold hands together and sing kumbaya’ here, but I don't think it's accurate to stereotype tens of millions of progressives based on a minority of highly vocal smug, arrogant or victim mentality types. No, San Francisco or Berkeley isn't any more representative of progressives as a whole anymore than rednecks are of tens of millions of conservatives as a group.And I think I can speak to that to a fair degree having lived for every single month of the last seventeen years in some of the most “blue” cities of America - Philadelphia, Cambridge (the “Berkeley” of the East Coast), Manhattan in New York City, Carrboro in North Carolina, West Hartford at present - I have never lived for even so much a month in a “red” county. So if there’s one demographic I am familiar with, it is American progressives.But I'll tell you what I find to be the most marked difference which has major consequences in terms of political power between progressives and conservatives. It is not a trait that is nearly as annoying, as it is widespread.It is that I find that progressives focus to a much greater degree on ‘feeling good’ about themselves.With many of the policies that they propose and support, such as a mandatory minimum wage, rent control, pacifism in international affairs, unrestricted immigration, to even such things as letting minors and children undergo sex change operations without parental consent…..They don't seem to be bothered as much about the actual results of these policies or the hard data about how they’ve worked out thus far as much as how warm and fuzzy it feels.Now once again, conservatives have their own corollary in this regard, which is a focus not on feeling good as much as it is with feeling tough or even macho (yes, that’s our devil!)But since this is a question about progressives, I'll stick to that. I mention the pitfalls of contemporary conservatism merely to demonstrate that neither side is without sin.Now what's interesting is that this focus on “feeling good” is also what cripples progressive grassroots movements.The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement rose up like a fire and then fizzled out like cheap soda water.They accomplished virtually nothing in terms of solid political results.Now compare that to the Tea Party movement that heavily influenced the mid term elections of 2010. Which then went on to be the nemesis of President Obama for the next six years. That single mindedness played a major role in getting Republicans to capture both houses of Congress. And it has stayed that way ever since 2010.OWS had far more favorable coverage by the mainstream media when they started out than the Tea Party Movement. At least until they started squatting and shitting everywhere in the parks in all major cities. But they had a huge leg up in terms of PR at the start.It amounted to nothing.Why did that happen?The Occupy Wall Street protestors had no solid plans on how to systematically translate their intentions into results. They sang, and shouted and smoked weed, then congratulated each other and went home.You see that today with Black Lives Matter. After rising up in 2014-2015, they’ve largely faded away into the background now. Once again there was no well circumscribed focus. They keep adding on more and more items to the agenda until the energy is completely dissipated in too many directions.A powerful brand is as much about who you are NOT as it is about who you are.Once you start saying “I'm A and B and C and D” and “I want V and X and Y and Z”.,. People stop paying attention.The Tea Party Movement on the other hand, stuck largely with its original demand - fiscal conservatism. Not that some of them didn’t have any other demands but they were focused like a bullet on results. Not on merely feeling good. They picked their goal, concentrated their energy, made concrete plans, went about implementing them systematically and then reaped the results.Anyone surprised that works?And it is this rather foolish focus on “feeling good” which ironically enough should bother progressives more than anybody else. Because so long as they are obsessed with that, they will not be nearly as efficient as conservatives. Then again, the trait of ‘orderliness’ is one that is decidedly more prevalent among conservatives than progressives (much as how the trait of ‘openness’ is a characteristic of progressives to a much greater degree than it is of conservatives).Truth be told, so long as progressives stay that way, its only beneficial for us conservatives. So I won’t complain too much about it.Because at the end of it all, conservatives really aren't too bothered about anything else but actual hard results. Whether that be in finance, business or politics.