No. of Recommendations: 10
Box checking versus genuine merit lives on both sides of the isle but in general I think it is pretty clear that liberals are more influenced by that tendency than conservatives.
I'm sure you believe this, but if you examine the last several Republican administrations (as one example) I think you'll find it's not true. Then again, those are highly visible, so they take greater pains that elsewhere. Like Corporate boardrooms and CEO jobs, which are still overwhelmingly white and male - and would be near 100% if societal trends hadn't forced them to examine their prejudices and make a few wee adjustments.
I will say this: Conservatives are nearly always late to the party. They were against integration, they were (and are) against making efforts to bring other races into opportunities like education and business, they were against interference with practices such as redlining which kept minorities shut out of middle class housing.
Conservatives are still 'not sure' about global warming, even when they word-shift to 'climate change'. They're willing to wait until it's too late to do anything, and then Jesus, apparently. Conservatives hate the idea of government, until they suddenly turn around and find it necessary, as on 9/11, rescuing the economy in 2008, etc. Always looking backwards, never anticipating.
You know who decided business should stop using child labor? Who pushed for the 40 hour week? Who got weekends and holidays? Health care? Worker protections? Clear air? Social Security? Medicare? It wasn't conservatives, I'll tell you.
I will give you this: you've been terrific at coarsening the political language, thanks to Newt, Rush, and Frank Luntz, who counseled Republicans:
he helped Gingrich produce a GOPAC memo that encouraged Republicans to "speak like Newt" by describing Democrats and Democratic policies using words such as "corrupt," "devour," "greed," "hypocrisy," "liberal," "sick," and "traitors."[25][26] [Frank Luntz bio; Wikipedia]
So: very forward thinking on propaganda, on society and people, not so much.
