I think I figured something out about why people gravitate to conservative politics...

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. It's easier and much less work to hate, to be intolerant, to be selfish, to be

individualistic, to only be concerned with one's own self interests, to be self absorbed and simplistic.

So yes, it's much less work and thus more appealing to be conservative.

If people tend to believe that human nature is essentially bad and selfish, then that's how they justify being conservative. One thing conservatives always say is that life is not fair and will never be fair. That's how they justify mistreatment of others. That's how the eugenics movement justified their racism. That's how Richard Hernstein and Charles Murray justified The Bell Curve: claim that there are people who are inherently inferior, that way you justify their mistreatment, cutting social programs that help the poor. Get people to believe that some are more deserving of others; that way, again, looking down on the 'undeserving' doesn't make then feel as guilty.

Then, demonize liberals, the word liberalism and everything associated with it. Begin 45 years of anti-liberal, anti-government rhetoric, much of it steeped in racially-coded symbolism and language. Then purchase media outlets and get power elites to repeat the propaganda over and over again until even liberals themselves begin to co-opt their own sense of inferiority...now calling themselves 'progressives' rather than what they are: LIBERAL STALWARTS!! (hence, my handle name).