It's interesting that they hold this belief but also hold "public schooling and universities are turning kids into Marxists!", since they've internalized that right wing thought is natural and therefore good. I even had some accusation of that thrown my way by some of the more conservative parts of my family, despite the fact that I was nominally SocDem at best by the time I graduated and made a hard shift left when I actually worked (much further when the shitshow of 2020 rolled around).
Funny thing is that this was when I still had the privilege of my folks covering or at least partially supporting my life expenses. So the money I was earning was more of a nice bonus than anything else before I could train and find a job in my field. It's just that, with the amount of strenuous work they offloaded onto us, I could see the struggles friends and associates I've made on the job who weren't as lucky and needed to work with that meager pay, many of whom older and less energetic than me.
I suppose for a lot of conservatives, even the ones who actually worked these jobs when they were younger, many never really got that exposure. Or they did, but comforted themselves with sufficient ideology to make the weird feelings and inner conflicts go away ("They could easily get out of that situation if they just work hard enough").
It's interesting that they hold this belief but also hold "public schooling and universities are turning kids into Marxists!", since they've internalized that right wing thought is natural and therefore good. I even had some accusation of that thrown my way by some of the more conservative parts of my family, despite the fact that I was nominally SocDem at best by the time I graduated and made a hard shift left when I actually worked (much further when the shitshow of 2020 rolled around).
Working for low wages is radicalizing in itself.
Funny thing is that this was when I still had the privilege of my folks covering or at least partially supporting my life expenses. So the money I was earning was more of a nice bonus than anything else before I could train and find a job in my field. It's just that, with the amount of strenuous work they offloaded onto us, I could see the struggles friends and associates I've made on the job who weren't as lucky and needed to work with that meager pay, many of whom older and less energetic than me.
I suppose for a lot of conservatives, even the ones who actually worked these jobs when they were younger, many never really got that exposure. Or they did, but comforted themselves with sufficient ideology to make the weird feelings and inner conflicts go away ("They could easily get out of that situation if they just work hard enough").