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Why are right-wingers so vocal about their views? Or am I just unlucky? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just wondering what everyone thinks about this. In almost every place I've worked coworkers with right wing beliefs are never shy about giving their opinion and views on things.

The major talking points are usually variations of stuff like: we spend to much on beneficiaries and they should stop being lazy and get a job. That poor people have kids so they can get free money from the government. We need or be tougher on crime. Even absurd shit like being outraged that a homeless person had a smartphone and indulging in such lavishness is why they're homeless etc etc

Some of the shit I hear from otherwise seemingly lovely people is insane. I feel like I have to be so much more measured and have all my 'evidence' ready to defend my commie beliefs while these people can just say whatever bullshit they want and everybody just kinda nods in agreement.

Is this a normal thing in the Angloverse? Is it because their views are essentially the status quo already and they have just fully internalised the capitalist propeganda?

Please let me know

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I've definitely had mixed experiences with this but I'm not from the US and most of the religious people I've known haven't been evangelicals. There's some religious workmates and friends I've had which had been probably the most kind in regards to disenfranchised people. They would engage in stuff like food banks for the homeless, raise funds towards helping the disabled, usually through their church or mosque etc. Although many still had reductive views around the rainbow community and I guess a lot of their beliefs don't challange the fundamental structure causing the suffering in the first place.