Twitter used to be run by progressives, so there was a modicum of "we are, or should be, doing good things here".
Elon Musk bought Twitter specifically to hollow out its progressive cultural core.
Elon Musk bought Twitter specifically to hollow out its progressive cultural core.
Most people do not own individual stocks. And in fact, most people do not own stocks at all. The set of stock-owning people is far from average.
And yes, of course pension funds count. Why wouldn't they?
Alternatively, it seems to have a significant genetic component, and most of the rest will depend on the environment you grow up in. Choice isn't part of it, you don't evaluate all the possibilities and then pick the best one, you think the one you're part of is the best one because it intuitively made sense to you. The rest is rationalization.
It's true that I don't live in America, so maybe there is a difference, but you definitely are not describing a human truth.
Of course, some people do change their ideology later in life (which I don't think is the right term, because they don't actively change it, it's more that they change and their ideology is part of them), but that's not common, and overall it's remarkably stable.
If you are born in Mecca, you are very likely to become and stay Muslim. If you are born in coastal California, you are very likely to become a Democrat of leftist bend. If you are born in a small town in the English Home Counties, you are likely to become a Tory. If you are born in a Catholic part of Northern Ireland, you are likely to become a Sinn Fein voter etc.
Obviously this isn't anywhere near as sticky as your skin color or even your primary language of communication, but the defaults are still rather strong.