Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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l on Twitter. And I thought did I do that? Who else was talking about this obscure little article in The Root? Did I make that viral? I don't know the answer to that actually. But so Ben had some disagreements with the article which are worth reading. I will not repeat them because I know Ben will be called all kinds of bad names for having an opinion as he often is. So then I hope he can survive…

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es have not taken up arms against the thing that they would describe as tens of millions of babies being murdered every year by the state in a sense because they made it legal.

Now how can we have a stable country with that going on? And the reason is the conservatives have a tremendous respect for the process. The process in this case is the Constitution, the Supreme Court, our laws. And as long as the process was followed even though they didn't get the result they wanted and even though they complained bitterly about the Supreme Court making up laws, it still went through the process. And look at this. Look at the power of that. I mean there's an incredible power to the fact that conservatives will even under these extreme conditions, what they imagined to be tens of millions of murders of babies, they still stay within the system. They don't leave the system because that's the most basic belief is that the system is the only thing that can protect us all in the long run. Because if you violate the system everything falls apart. It's chaos.

Whereas the people who are not conservatives, people on the left, are increasingly driven by hate and fear. That seems to be hate and fear

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and that's not much of a system. So it's no surprise that they're not winning the presidency recently. Okay that's all I got. Yeah the conservatives are still fighting for pro-life positions but they're doing it within the system. But boom Scott one of your best threads ever. Well thank you. The fourth holocaust is abortion. Well you could say that in China even more than the US right? I think…

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