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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Think about this idea: 

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Many conservatives view the world as needing structure - that is, it *has* to be a *certain way*. Just like if you build a car, it *has* to have the wheels on the ground, right? It won't work if the wheels are on top, or the engine is in separate pieces. 

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Does that make sense? Without structure the world would be chaos. The car wouldn't work - the wheels are on the roof and the engine is behind the car and the driver is sitting in the trunk with the steering wheel. 

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Taking that idea - that the world *has to be a certain way -* means that people, events, and beliefs all have to follow that same structure. Right is right, wrong is wrong. Men are men, women are women. Good is good, evil is evil. Evil people do evil things, and their reasons are evil. Good people do good things, and their reasons are good.

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Poor people are poor because they *should* be poor. Rich people are rich because they *should* be rich. 

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That's how conservatives view the world - at least, many of them do, a lot of them do. That's how people with the authoritarian mindset view the world. The world has rules, and people belong in certain places, and that *shouldn't change.*

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Take the ideals that you've written, take the point of view that whatever that is - xenophobia, for instance, and examine it from the point of view of *rules* and *this is how it's supposed to be.*

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Mexicans are from Mexico, so they should stay there. They shouldn't come here. And if they do, they need to follow *our rules,* and since they're here and they should follow our rules, it also means that *I don't have to change.*

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Look at what they stand for, imagine being of the mindset that the world has to be a certain way, and that your political opponents want to make the world chaotic and lawless. That would be scary, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be nicer if things stayed the way they are, and you understood what was happening all the time, and you didn't have to change the way you talk to / about people? 

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People yearn for simplicity and rules and a world that's grounded. That's what they *think* conservatism offers them. And that's where they come to the conclusions/policies that they do.
gpt
I’d like to add this helps explain why you hear the left thinks working class voters vote against their own interest, a lot of people in working class jobs that are productive in my personal experience tend not to complain, don’t have any sense of entitlement and get the job done in unbelievably intelligent ways. They understand the world works in structured, foundational ways, and sometimes look at idealism to counter that as impractical and unproductive.