If you can’t think of anything that a reasonable American conservative men can do to build comradie and respect from peers and community just say: “Sorry, I can’t think of anything at all that a reasonable American conservative men can do to build comradie and respect from peers and community .”
I’ll respond to all negative and sarcastic comments with rolling eyes 🙄. I’m looking for positive comments only.
Why not volunteer for Habitat for Humanity? Teach an ESL class? Host a block party? Spend time with senior citizens at the local nursing home? Read books to kids at the library? Help out at an animal shelter? Clean up litter from the streets?
The possibilities are endless
Volunteer your time and labor to give back to your community. Support marginalized people.
What problems is your community facing? Homelessness? Drug addiction? Look into supporting those groups.
Patronize third spaces and small businesses so that there are places for community and camaraderie to be built.
Those are all political though.
I disagree, but that’s a matter of semantics. I think “political” in this context means directly relating to politics. Because if my examples are political then everything is political, and so the question is meaningless.
How do you define “directly relating to politics?” The fact that marginalized people don’t have the support they need is political. Homelessness, drug addiction, all of these are political problems that stem from political economy.
Directly involved with a political party, voting, or lawmaking.
The problem with calling things “political” or “not political” is that literally everything in our world, from real objects to abstract concepts, is affected by laws and government. So you gotta draw the line somewhere.
Show me something “not political” and I’ll show you how it actually is.
My conservative uncle does this instinctively for community and strangers.
For strangers, he’s always the first to rush out and help folks.
I rember when we were at a lakefront cottage he’ll rent for the family to come visit and he saw folks struggling to get a boat out of increasingly bad weather and immediately loaded us into the truck to go help for the next hour.
He also seemingly knows the name of every employee he encounters. When he go to that cabin, he’ll bring bottles of wine to give to the check in folks, the cleaning staff (and a thing of cider for one person who years ago said they don’t like wine.) When we shop for the food for the weekend, it takes twice as long because he stops and has a conversation with seemingly everyone in the gigantic store and knows their names, their kids and they know him and what he’s been up to.
In a lot of ways, he’s a damned admirable man, even if I find his politics repellant.
They have blinders on when talking about politics, but most are normal and kind otherwise. For example (until 2026 and this dumb halftime show ‘controversy’) inviting people over for the Super Bowl would have been a good one. They invite people over holidays.
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Seems like you’re the one being negative.
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Act out all virtues that they believe in instead of just parroting or deflecting when it is not “easy” to do so. Anyone, regardless of beliefs, cannot be respected if they do not truly act on their beliefs but instead, others. I argue that this is the MAIN reason conservative men (and many other groups) are typically not respected. It is not just because of what they believe, but also because these ideas weren’t even their own to begin with, thus not really a valid person to govern respect to. Because these ideas weren’t theirs, they cannot put those ideas into reality since they don’t mean anything to them.
Put more simply, if you think it is good to open a door for people, do it not because it would benefit them or because someone said it is the right thing to do, but because you yourself believe it, regardless of whether the person thanks you or berates you. Your control over yourself is self-respect. From there, people who notice your control over reality will also be forced to garner some respect over the act itself, even if they don’t feel like they want to. If you are controlled by everything and everyone around you, then everything around you is respected, not you.
There’s more to be said about acceptance and the people who are able to give or receive respect without abusing authority to force others into roles that demand respect without ever having earned it. This isn’t respect, but rather just an appeal to authority. These types of people are usually hungry for power over others and not mutual respect. Be careful who you surround yourself with and whether or not they truly respect you or just the beliefs that you all share.
You can’t put lipstick on a pig.
What you’re actually asking is how conservative men can disguise the fact that they’re conservative men.
If being a conservative man was objectively a positive thing, then there would be no reason for your post.
You know this.
“Say only nice things or I won’t accept 🙄 it” is very “conservative man”.
This is the closest thing to an admission that a conservative man can generate, with respect to understanding that their politics are repugnant.
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What you will find is that an eyeroll emoji cannot negate immutable facts.
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I don’t think conservatives can build genuine camaraderie, that’s the left’s thing historically.
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Not really sure what you’re expecting to get from a predominantly communist website.
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I don’t think that was particularly negative, to be honest, nor was it sarcastic at all.
Read books. Not sarcasm. Most people don’t read now a days but it’s a great trial run for building empathy and will give you interesting things to talk about when building comradery. Fiction, nonfiction it doesn’t matter. It will make you a more rounded individual.
Don’t be this guy.
Simple as.
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Getting involved with the non-profit near you, giving time to homeless, etc.
Even giving time to your (small) local church will help.
Those are all work and political, though.
Who are the peers of American conservative men? Who are the communities of American conservative men?
Is it considered political to suggest that the peers of American conservative men are immigrants, black people, women, trans people?
Is it considered political to suggest that the community of American conservative men are immigrants, black people, women, trans people?
Is it considered political to suggest that American conservative men could spend time visiting with leaders of churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and other places of worship and just learn about other religions?
Is it considered political to suggest that American conservative men could attend meetings of anti-racist organizations?
Please clarify your terminology and help to draw clearer boundaries of what is considered “not work and not political”, who is considered “peers and community”, otherwise this will go nowhere
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Depending on how cynical you are, you can always bring anything back to politics, and it’s hard to find something exclusively “conservative”, but I would say adult sports leagues like softball.
