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33. Money and power are the only organizing principles in the conservative world.

To understand the conservative mind, you have to understand this premise — people choose professions because of money.

Health-care professionals? Those jobs pay well, right? (Never mind that most don't pay well.) So doctors and nurses are in it for themselves, not because of any altruism. So if conservatives become health-care professionals, they tend to embody this ethos — elective plastic surgeons, doctors to the stars, etc.

Teachers? Well, we know they don't get paid well, so they do it because they're lazy and don't want to work full-time jobs. Oh, the same with academics, plus they want to brainwash our kids into being lazy government-reliant sponges like them. Thus, many conservatives in academia or teaching tend to cluster in those subject areas that prepares students to be workers.

Journalists? They're doing it for the clicks, not to seek truth and report it. Thus, conservative "journalists" tend to be partisan hacks who really are just trying to prove their biases are correct.

Scientists? They're just in it for the grant money, so they choose the most politically correct topics they can and feed off that for their entire careers. Conservatives co-opt science to fund junk research that "proves" conservative talking points.

Politicians? They do it for the power and to make money after leaving the public sector, right? People like Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff have to be corrupt because they're politicians. Thus, more conservative politicians than progressive tend to embody the corrupt and power-hungry models they envision.

Money and power are the only organizing principles in the conservative world.