PallasRiot on Nostr: The more you understand conservative voters in basically every country the less ...

The more you understand conservative voters in basically every country the less evidence you find of the narratives around economic anxiety or whatever. Yes, the misery of neoliberal austerity and breakdown of material conditions fosters more conservatism, but fundamentally this describes the soil in which conservatism is most fertile. What animates right-wingers is bigotry and fear, it's racial anxiety and hatres of women and gleeful spite. People with right-wing sentiment aren't sympathetic lost souls, they're stupid, incurious, and evil, and they love that about themselves and their fellows. The more you actually understand them on their own terms and in fact, the less believable the liberal narratives about them are.