IMO, conservatives view life as a competition. They view complaints on society as sour grapes against the winners of the game. Don’t bitch, get up and compete! They view it from the point of an individual rather than viewing society as a whole. They don’t concern themselves with societal problems, only with their own problems.
Well they shouldn’t because they mostly suck at the competition lol
My current thinking is that for many people, their in-group is whiteness. Conservative policies speak to that. They’re willing to suffer and die for this ideology. Yes, I did just read “Dying of Whiteness”
Everyone’s just getting algorithmically brainwashed - especially if you aren’t curating your own feed. AI is only going to make this worse - a lot worse.
People need to be actively aware of the media that’s being shovelled into our eyeballs and ears. Understand nuance and bias in every message. Even the format of its delivery is a message. Alas, those require a bit of critical thinking which many tend to lack. Oh and, there’s no such thing as common sense.