Why the Right is Right
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🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Why are you right? |
| 0:02.0 | Yes, you conservative person. |
| 0:03.8 | Can you answer that question? |
| 0:05.2 | I think it's so important that I wrote a book about it. |
| 0:07.7 | How to be right. |
| 0:08.7 | The art of being persuasively correct. |
| 0:10.8 | Because if you can't be persuasive about why you are right, then we, the United States |
| 0:14.9 | of America and the Republic for which it stands, are lost. |
| 0:18.7 | So here's the simple answer to why you are right. |
| 0:21.2 | It is a more practical, generous, and compassionate way to live. |
| 0:26.0 | Let me explain. |
| 0:27.2 | There have been a bunch of academic studies on how those on the left and right approach |
| 0:30.6 | problems. |
| 0:31.6 | They pretty much all come to the same conclusion. |
| 0:33.9 | The right tends to be risk averse, more concerned about external threats, like tyranny |
| 0:38.5 | and terror. |
| 0:40.2 | Conservatives get this, tend to be conservative. |
| 0:42.8 | They're less likely to play with fire in just about every sense, financially, artistically, |
| 0:48.2 | sexually. |
| 0:49.2 | They're cautious about changing traditions, sometimes to a fault. |
| 0:53.7 | Which is why they cling to that crazy constitution they like so much, and to their guns and their |
| 0:58.4 | religion. |
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