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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think unifying ideology is also much easier a task for conservative thought, because it's all about "F you, got mine." And "Those that aren't us are trying to ruin everything." And "Eat enough leather and maybe you'll get rich lol."

Leftier-leaning stuff has a "unity problem" because it seeks to understand and accommodate the vast spectrum of human experiences and points of view. Not that that's a bad thing, but it's certainly much tougher and more complex to pitch, and rally, and galvanize.

Conservatives are really good at being chill and most importantly simple for the most part at an introductory level, so they recruit a lot, and then slowly work their adherents into raging, scared, insecure violence-fantasists.

A good example is with men. Leftists groups have a serious deficiency in speaking to and empathizing with masculine issues, and are shocked when normally moderate, but wayward, men are happy to just be accepted...then radicalized, by hyper-nationalist conspiracy theorists with a fetish for sharp geometric symbolism...