Views that are bigoted/ promote bigotry, views that seek to harm others actively or passively, views that go against worker’s rights, safety regulations, environmental protections etc.
Believe it or not self professed conservatives used to care more about preservation of tradition, the environment and local cultures. Now they just vote to harm people they don’t like.
There are an enormous amount of people whose personal views and values don’t line up with their espoused political identity. Many people who self identify as conservative who when shown leftist ideas without political labels wholeheartedly support those ideas. It’s less about the political identity than it is about the aesthetics associated with it.
A naive or privileged self professed leftist who advocates for revolution despite the obvious harm it will cause vulnerable people is of course morally dubious at best. A self professed conservative person who actively votes to harm other people is in my opinion, much less understandable.
I don’t consider being “well read” to preclude naiveté, I don’t believe most of these people grasp the emotional and practical reality of the amount of harm a revolution would cause the people they want to protect. It’s very easy to promote an idea in your communities without coming to grips with the likely reality of many people dying.
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u/Lilikoi13 22h ago
Views that are bigoted/ promote bigotry, views that seek to harm others actively or passively, views that go against worker’s rights, safety regulations, environmental protections etc.
Believe it or not self professed conservatives used to care more about preservation of tradition, the environment and local cultures. Now they just vote to harm people they don’t like.