As I was going around the house today, doing my usual Sunday morning routine of cleaning the house while listening to political-ish podcasts and I was reminded of
a thread I started a while ago asking for references for certain perspectives from the Right. It's very common on the Left for folks to look at Trump voters or the Right more broadly and wonder "Why?". Why do people on the Right believe what they believe, why to they vote for the people they vote for, etc. And then these folks write op-eds and blog posts and books about what they've discovered. There's a bunch of skepticism within these questions and, to be fair, more condescension than I'm comfortable with, but there is still a lot of genuine curiosity about something that these folks don't understand.
You may recall the thread since you participated in it, but to recap: I asked in this thread if there were folks on the Right asking similar questions about the Left. I couldn't recall having heard of any, but I assumed that some existed and that the folks here would be able to drop a couple names. It was a sincere question and I was willing to entertain answers. However, not only did nobody have any real suggestions (one person tried, but their suggestion fell well short of the mark), multiple people struggled with the question and a few openly derided the very concept. One (in a since-edited comment) even equated Dems with the devil.
If the Right is as incurious as that thread suggested, then yes, your side will be the one dominated by nonsense. Your side will be the one abandoned by the curious and the knowledgable. If not one person on the Right read that thread and said, "I don't know of any, but would like to find some," then that's a problem. I've been in groups in the past where I was surrounded by people who thought they knew everything and that all of the outsiders were stupid, and I was embarrassed by it. Why aren't you embarrassed by it?
