Eh, I think FOX news is about the money. They Murdock found a demographic that wasn't really being served well by other news outlets. Now they own that demographic. Freaking Hannity make $40M a year! Imagine how happy he is to support idiotic conspiracy theories since it nets him $40M a year.
It does not matter how strong your morality is if you cannot tolerate an accurate perception of reality from which to apply those morals. It is in that scenario where morality can become a tool for abuse of those you cast as amoral to ward off seeing your own failings.
But you are right that where people go wrong is that they assume such hypocritical act necessarily means the morals themselves are disingenuous. That is far from the case most of the time.
But not Trump. Trump is not a hypocritical conservative. As the article states, his actual behavior is fundamentally opposed to everything a conservative purports to believe in. Do not confuse the ordinary failures of their other politicians to honor the conservative ideal as evidence they are the same as Trump. Those people go through mental gynmastics to convince themselves that they represent their values earnestly. Trump has no value whatsoever in any moral version of the world which works through mutual interests, conservative or otherwise. He merely preys on other's attachments to those values and proclaims he is the purest representation of them despite an objective look demonstrating him to be the purest bastardization of them. He depends on others to do the mental gymnastics for him, and as such has no moral quandary with changing the rules altogether whenever it suits him.
All of Trump's power comes from the weakness of others. He is allowed to abusively represent moral values other people genuinely hold because they don't subconsciously feel strong enough to represent those values themselves. And they are so terrified to admit this fact to themselves that they would rather fuck the world over to soothe their own psyche by enjoining the delusion that their moral ideal not only exists but wins.
Don't get me started on liberals.
Sounds right to me. My comment on Conservatives was addressed to fiskimo regarding his lament it took so long for this guy to see. I was trying to suggest there are properties of the conservative mind set that make that realization especially difficult. I tend to see people who refuse to see their own evil as worthless scum, a trait I don't really like about myself. So maybe what I wrote was more to calm my own need to point fingers by appealing to what I think is really the case, that something good lies at the root of conservative evil and we shouldn't throw out the moral concerns of conservatives because they are open to corruption in ways liberal's cant be similarly affected, which itself makes liberals bling to why conservative moral messaging is something they lose elections over because they can't see what it is that hits them, that conservative moral concerns are instinctive and have root appeal for that reason, corrupt or not.
Trump is not a conservative, I know. He is, in my opinion, a criminal psychopath and highly skilled con man. Trump has one guiding star, again, in my opinion, and that is what is good for him minute by minute is his truth, a delusional reality he fully animates in word and action.
Republicans who support Trump are supporting a Mafia like psychopath and, in my view should be brought to justice for treason. The damage these moral slime have done to the country is epic.
I have mentioned, have I not, the dangers of self hate and how it's denial amounts to self destruction. I suggest the the greater the evil the greater the repression applied in denial.
Just as an aside, did you ever see the film Forbidden Planet? It's an unconscious revelation or perhaps not so unconscious, of self destruction under the rubric, Monster of the Id. Another of those 'holy shit' movies I saw as a kid.