Her Name is Susan

Conservatives long for the world of Leave it to Beaver, Christmas
Story, and Babe Ruth. A world of everyone looking the same, talking the
same, eating the same foods, and enjoying the same sports. Everyone loves
Jesus, America, Baseball, and tries to work hard so he can be rich and enjoy
well-deserved luxury. A core belief of this group is that those who are
successful and rich deserve to live luxuriously because they are
individually and personally responsible, through the making of good choices,
for their own prosperity. And conversely, those who are not successful
deserve, to some significant degree, their lower station because they failed
to make the correct choices.

Liberals long for the world of Star Trek. This is a world of equality
and exotic diversity, where there’s no repulsion to being surrounded by
people, foods, or ideas that are different than their own. It’s a world
where money has less value, and where art, science, and exploration are
placed as the highest of cultural priorities. Those who hold this ideal tend
to believe that one’s success or failure, wealth or poverty, depends more on
circumstances outside of their control, and thus see the elevation of the
underprivileged to be a communal effort that should be willingly funded by
those in society who have been fortunate enough to be successful.

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