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Some thoughts off the top of my head: 1. Right-wingers don't worry about moral high ground or imaging, [i]because they're convinced they already have it.[/b] So nothing is off-limits, because they're on a crusade to restore righteousness and good in their eyes. 2. Right-wingers favor basic and viscerally appealing solutions. Crime? Shoot it dead, or lock people up and let 'em get raped in the bargain, or just fry 'em dead. Child poverty? Sluts gotta keep their legs closed! Don't breed 'em if you can't feed 'em! They like the allure of dominance, the feeling of superiority at cutting Gordian knots rather than untangling them, the smug self-gratification that they have it all figured out and everyone else is just whining trash, and so on. 3. Right-wingers have basic wants. Homos back in the closet, minorities shut the gently caress up or go back to where you came from, poor people just need to try harder and quit relying on handouts, and so on. There are no questions about the dynamics and implications of social and economic privilege between white and minority homosexuality, because all homosexuality is problematic. Questions about systematic racism aren't present, because hey black people, have a double dose of Africa (stereotypes of which serve as a "You could have it so much worse!" example, and also to underscore racist sentiment since "Blacks have a whole continent and look at it now!"). Questions about economic inequality, building a safety net, and the like don't apply. Because poor people are responsible for getting their own share of the pie, and if they haven't, isn't it more obvious they're just not applying themselves hard enough or correctly? So why are we taxed to give welfare checks to these obvious slackers and layabouts? Hence, since right-wingers are already convinced they're correct and everyone else is aberrant, since they already have "simple solutions", and there are no complex problems. Throw in the visceral nature of right-wing thought (wherein if something feels strongly right in the guts, or has a logic that appeals to their seemingly obvious biases), and it becomes easy to coalesce a unified worldview. More than that, while the left-wing suffers from disconnects, disownings, and whatever between adherents to the various beliefs, ideologies, and groups on that side of the aisle, the right-wing view is always skirting and flirting with ever more extreme dogma. Black people are self-entitled complainers -> black people are all criminals -> black people are also anti-white and waiting for a race war -> *running off the cliff* You don't have to be a member of the KKK or a neo-Nazi to regurgiate their explicit views in a less extreme (but still discriminatory and lens-clouded) manner that can compound over time because of unchecked overlap in discussion. Someone farther along or higher up the ladder will drop their views from their bit of the spectrum, and those lower down will nod because it connects to their latent biases and preconceived views. And if someone else is saying it, maybe there's something to it? Anyhow, just my thinking on how right-wing coalescing online works at the roots.
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