Why exactly does Stephen king hate conservatives? If a conservative is pro universal healthcare does that put them on king's good side? How does a conservative who likes Stephen king's early books get on his good side?
shareIt's because he's a far-left liberal asshole from Maine. The fact that he's from New England should tell you everything you need to know about him.
shareNew England is 6 different states, and we aren’t all the same, so not it doesn’t really tell you anything.
shareI'd expect that take from AmeriGirl who still believes 2020 was stolen.
shareAre you now? Tell us how each state is different? The only things I know about them is that people from Maine hate people from Massachusetts, people from Rhode Island don't like people from NYC, and people from NYC see New Jersey as a joke.
shareHe's probably being paid to. His older books don't have the political bias his social media persona appears to have.
shareProbably because quite a lot of them are racist, sexist, homophobic, puritan assholes? Just a thought.
shareBecause King is a "progressive," and that means, like most of them, he is a believer in what Thomas Sowell calls "the unconstrained vision" of human nature. In brief: those with the constrained vision believe human nature is essentially unchanging and that man is naturally inherently self-interested, regardless of the best intentions. Man is limited in his reason, his capability, prone to error, and frequently shortsighted. This means that complex social problems have no solutions, only trade offs. We do the best we can, and there's always room for improvement, but utopia is simply not in the cards for us.
But those with the unconstrained vision believe that human nature is essentially good. Evil, or injustice arise from flawed institutions or power structures that have been allowed to persist, and if we can only put the right people in charge, enact the right policies, and pass the right laws, a truly just social order can be created. They believe, in short, that man is perfectible.
Now, if you believe that man is perfectible, and a just social order can be created, than it becomes a problem explaining the existence of intelligent people who disagree with the policies you see aimed at those ends. Consequently, accusations of bad faith, venality, corruption, racism, inhumanity, have always come more commonly from the left, aimed at the right, than vice versa. This goes back centuries. Around the time of the French Revolution, William Godwin and Thomas Malthus argued with each other over this issue, and Malthus said he thought Godwin intelligent and sincere in his belief, but misguided and wrong. Godwin accused Malthus of lacking humanity.
Constrained visionaries don't have to accuse the other side of being evil to explain why they are wrong, but the unconstrained visionaries, who see man as perfectible, and conservatives as in the way, often do just that. King is one of them.
Look at this picture of a young Stephen King:
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/stephen-king-sq.jpg
Obviously, Stephen King dropped too much acid in his youth and this, coupled with his later drug and alcohol abuse and an inherent mental instability kept in check only by his cathartic writing resulted in his hatred for conservatism.