I’ve been asking myself this since Trump’s first term. Trump’s best policy is going to be a tax cut, the reason why I say that is because it that it let people keep more of their money for those few years (Maybe I’ll treat this sentence as a filter for reactionaries). Every other policy trump has done has been harmful or agnostic to his base (bombing an Iranian general isn’t going to make Americans lives better). For the past decade they just blindly defended trump and stayed loyal for seemingly no reason.
I’ve been loyal to people just to have the relationship end because one or both of us just moved on in physical and emotional sense. I feel like I shouldn’t have been loyal just excited to see them.
Seems that loyalty is more of a detriment, it can make your ignore faults in people and do reflexive and reactionary things. Like a tenous alliance seems more practical than loyalty.
I’m seeing if someone can advocate for loyalty in and of itself or if the merits loyalty is context based.
I think the political example you gave doesn’t apply well in a personal context.
Trump supporters have, at best, a parasocial relationship with the man. They don’t know him, but they feel like they know him. A personal relationship shouldn’t be subject to the same imbalance.
Second, what does “loyalty” mean to you in a personal context? Is it just that you wouldn’t betray that person, either for someone else’s or your own benefit? Or does it mean something more/less?
Hmmm answering a question with a question…
Given my mood I’m gonna say my definition of loyalty wouldnt matter. You can define loyalty and make points on it. Some people like to ask a string of questions that goes no where