I think that some right wingers are closer to “getting it” than a lot of liberals are.
And actually when you think about it it’s not really that surprising, because the biggest determinant of how likely you are to develop class consciousness is your class, your actual material conditions. Poor, working class people are severely brainwashed with reactionary propaganda precisely in order to keep them from developing class consciousness. Racism and bigotry are used to prevent them developing solidarity with other sections of the working class. And yet still, many of these people are closer to seeing through the lies of the capitalist system than the relatively well-off “back-to-brunch” type of liberal, because of their lived experience of being exploited by capital every day.
In many ways right wingers are also incredibly naive of course and they constantly fall for the most obvious of lies when they are packaged in a way that plays on their prejudices, but at least they have an instinctive distrust of the mainstream media, while so many liberals basically worship establishment propaganda outlets.
You also see this in the almost paradoxical phenomenon where instead of being more likely to be critical thinkers, a certain type of university educated people are actually some of the least critical thinking and most group minded people you will ever meet, convinced that they are immune from indoctrination even as they completely uncritically parrot the imperialist line on almost every single geopolitical issue (Palestine being perhaps the one exception where the evidence is so grotesque and so obvious that the liberal establishment is forced to try and co-opt and shift blame rather than outright paint the imperialist proxy as the good guys).
I think that some right wingers are closer to “getting it” than a lot of liberals are.
And actually when you think about it it’s not really that surprising, because the biggest determinant of how likely you are to develop class consciousness is your class, your actual material conditions. Poor, working class people are severely brainwashed with reactionary propaganda precisely in order to keep them from developing class consciousness. Racism and bigotry are used to prevent them developing solidarity with other sections of the working class. And yet still, many of these people are closer to seeing through the lies of the capitalist system than the relatively well-off “back-to-brunch” type of liberal, because of their lived experience of being exploited by capital every day.
In many ways right wingers are also incredibly naive of course and they constantly fall for the most obvious of lies when they are packaged in a way that plays on their prejudices, but at least they have an instinctive distrust of the mainstream media, while so many liberals basically worship establishment propaganda outlets.
You also see this in the almost paradoxical phenomenon where instead of being more likely to be critical thinkers, a certain type of university educated people are actually some of the least critical thinking and most group minded people you will ever meet, convinced that they are immune from indoctrination even as they completely uncritically parrot the imperialist line on almost every single geopolitical issue (Palestine being perhaps the one exception where the evidence is so grotesque and so obvious that the liberal establishment is forced to try and co-opt and shift blame rather than outright paint the imperialist proxy as the good guys).