It´s just a hunch for me, but conservatives have already given up on the whole civility thing which I have yet to experience a single liberal abandon. When people talk about their journey towards leftism, it´s either they used to be chuds or they were never sold on capitalism to begin with.
This is just anecdotal and based on my scewed experience. Anyone got something to add or refute?
The conservatives around where I grew up don't have too alien of a mindset for me to parse. I understand their rationale, but I also recognize that they're coming from a position of alienation and assumed white supremacy. They're products of the only experiences they've ever had, which is never leaving your hometown of 600 people and assuming white people are superior because only white people seem to have financial stability. They put the cart before the horse and guess their hometown is a reflection for the whole of reality, any suggestions otherwise are distortions of basic facts. Like I'm probably the only nonbinary person my relatives have ever met or heard of. They've also never met a black person who wasn't arrested every week. Everything they know about the wider world comes directly from FoxNews. A lot of them refuse to leave the county they were born in because they assume most places in the USA are full of riots every day.
Combine all of that with a general lack of compassion, unwillingness to believe anything about society could ever get better, and that life doesn't really matter because God will judge us for eternity soon. And that's really all their mindset is.