Often, the issue with conservatives, is not the lack of empathy for others, but an abundance of it, so much in fact, that they are constantly looking for psychological tricks that allow them to no longer have to feel bad when they hear of someone's misfortune.

Victim blaming in this sense is not something they do to others, but rather a shield they put up around themselves. The same inclination pushes them towards nationalism, misogyny and racism.

If you struggle to have faith in a conservative relative or friend, yet you can see the good in them, you should question how the temptation to avoid the severe dysregulating pain they go through would affect how you would submit to ideas that make the days easier.