There's so much ideological analysis of conservative people. But not nearly enough of neoliberal post-Reaganite society in very recent years, or in other words, mainstream United States. You ever notice that the majority of ideology many rich neoliberal people, and by extension, many 'upper-middle-class' or, I guess, PMC? people in similar states of prosperity, seems to exist entirely in justifying their own unhappiness and other's unhappiness by blaming it on themselves and them? I swear every techbro has a strange mash of stolen spiritual beliefs, classic pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstrapsism, and ableism that makes up their whole worldview.

I think it's because genuine happiness requires such immense action against one's own class position in these cases that the most natural response is to rationalize it as the result of something else, either personal fault or some sort of Other (because, while happiness may be something many pursue, very few people pursue it to the cost of survivability. And revolution is extremely risky). Conservatives actually have it way better than liberals in this sense, because they don't spend most of their ideological discussions basically telling each other how they're at fault for literally everything bad in their life. They actually try to find issues in the real world besides "you have a bad brain" to tackle. Which makes sense because it's a lot easier to make fake shit up then it is to hate yourself all the time, and the only reason richer neoliberal types expose themselves to this is probably because they pride themselves on being the Reasonable Ones and, denying themselves both revolutionary thought and self-delusion, their only option is complete and utter hatred of themselves and others who they view as intrinsically lesser, less intelligent, and more 'vulgar'. Every community is a community self harm sourcing center.