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@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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@midwest.social 7 points 1 month 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."

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Immigrants being on the right is also implicit. Almost nobody is gonna migrate to some place new because things like recent changes are going well for them in their country of origin. They instead leave and migrate to some place that is relatively more stable & predictable. Host countries don't like it when people migrate over and start agitating for change. As a result conservatism is built into the process.

–Consider the Cuban Communist. The Cubans that are happy with Communism have no major incentive to leave and resettle in Miami. The Cuban Capitalists OTOH flee to Miami where they espouse the evils of Communism while advocating for our government to continue the trade embargo, ensuring they can spread their pain to their fellow Cubans back in Cuba. It's the same exact story with Falun Gong