- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 12•13 hours ago
I’ve only gone further Left.
- Mac ( @Mac@mander.xyz ) 3•11 hours ago
How is it that some of us get further left and some people go right? Even poors and immigrants go right and vote against their own interests. I really don’t get it.
- WhimsicalWood ( @WhimsicalWood@aussie.zone ) 4•11 hours ago
Broadly speaking, I’d say it’s done out of fear. Voting conservative feels like staying the course and not challenging the status quo, even if it’s not ideal. Voting change could be seen as a threat to “stability” even when it’s a false narrative.
- NauticalNoodle ( @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ) 2•9 hours ago
To add to what you said I’d also argue it comes with finding financial success while lacking the awareness of how lucky one had to be to achieve that kind of success in life.
– although lately I have also seen a lot of people that lack the imagination to consider a reality different from what’s presented to them by the status quo.
On second thought, that latter point just sounds a lot like Indoctrination.
- anachronist ( @anachronist@midwest.social ) English4•9 hours ago
Yep this. It’s a combination of becoming more financially well-off, combined with loss aversion, combined with a sense that the culture starts to alienate you. It’s like grandpa simpson said: “I used to be with it. But what was ‘it’ changed. And now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what is ‘it’ is scary and strange.”
- RandomVideos ( @RandomVideos@programming.dev ) 4•14 hours ago
Eventually, it will overflow and you will become fascist
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 7•17 hours ago
Yup but I have seen it in my peers unfortunately. Honestly though not in the ones who were actually passionate. Like the guy who started the environmental club is as left as he ever was but like the one friend I had I think just parroted what most of his friends said atm.
- Funderpants ( @FunderPants@lemmy.ca ) 11•19 hours ago
I know that conflating Liberals and Conservatives is practically lemmys official pass time, but I have to point out they are not the same.
- IncognitoMosquito ( @IncognitoMosquito@beehaw.org ) 1•5 hours ago
Based on that link it says that conservatives are at odds with and are critical of liberalism. There is a subset of conservatism called liberal conservativism that incorporates liberal stances into the conservative position however.
- Cowbee [he/him] ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 11•19 hours ago
Conservatives are a subcategory of liberal. They aren’t conflated, that’s like saying thumbs and fingers get conflated.
- NauticalNoodle ( @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ) 6•19 hours ago
A lot of conservatives are liberals. The two terms are not mutually exclusive.
- Cowbee [he/him] ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 8•20 hours ago
How’d you get a picture of me?
- frightful_hobgoblin ( @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ) 6•20 hours ago
In the mid 20th-century, people reliably got more petty bourgeois as they got older.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379422000452
- Cowbee [he/him] ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 10•19 hours ago
Yep, correlation, not causation. Getting older doesn’t cause it.
- EldritchFeminity ( @EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•17 hours ago
There’s a much better correlation between wealth and conservatism than age. Almost like those who begin to benefit from the system of oppression are incentivesed to keep it going.
- Sam_Bass ( @Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml ) 4•19 hours ago
my experience is the opposite
- monk ( @monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•18 hours ago
Become retarted, got it
- DreadPirateShawn ( @DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•18 hours ago
what’s a retart?