3.) "Truth has a liberal bias"

Please just hang in until the end:

So, throughout human history, people tend to act with short term self-interest, right? Apparently they prefer it.
However, acting for the long term is always a better idea, and eventually morein everyone's self-interest, right?

But it's harder to prefer this. Just like it's harder to prefer a tabloid headline to a dense essay----Immediate short term gratification is hard to resist and easy to hold onto and get behind.

And, is not short term self-interest at the center of conservative philosophy?

And, is not long term community interest at the center of liberal philosophy

And, is not conservative radio, like tabloids, much more profitable and harder to resist than well...the basically non-existent liberal radio?

Basically what I'm saying is that conservatism appeals more to base urges of humans and takes less intelligence to latch onto. It thinks more like someone on a coke binge, ignoring the inevitable come down as long as possible.

Max, anybody, plz tell me I'm wrong. I feel like an ignorant ass making these assertions, but, I also feel very logical.
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Rupert Murdoch's father succeeded in the newspaper industry by printing tabloid headlines in "real" newspapers. People couldn't resist. Murdoch himself said, "If it made money, I'd have a liberal TV station tomorrow."

The thing to note is, people like what is easy. Some say, give people what they want, if they want tabloids why not give it to them? Well, if you're a parent and your kid is exposed to heroin and wants more, are you going to give him/her more? No.

People don't always want what is good for them, they want what is easiest and most readily appealing.

Conservatism is easiest and most readily appealing. This does not mean it's good.


Am I overlooking anything major here?

(oh yeah, and, this basically all also applies to the "free market," just because it sells doesn't mean it's good...McDonald's, KFC, etc.--diabetes and obesity didn't exist in China before these places came in.)