When dealing with the political Right one should always remember that Conservatives don’t regard hypocrisy as a vice.
Conservatism is based on inherent hierarchies – the idea that some people, ideas and things are intrinsically and unchangeably better than other people, ideas and things. As such it’s only natural and correct that different standards and different rules should apply to different objects in the hierarchy.
The result is that criticising the Right for inconsistent principals and special exceptions simply doesn’t work. What we on the Left consider appalling hypocrisy, they consider simple and obvious common sense. Complaining and protesting about it is – to them – as ridiculous as complaining and protesting about the sky being blue. It does nothing to shame them or convince them to change their ways – rather it makes us look like idiots.
So fight against the hypocrisy of the Right (and the Left when it occurs – which it regularly does) with everything you have, but don’t waste your energy trying to shame them into stopping it.
