There is an entire spectrum of political views, a good example would be stories about incarceration and homelessness which result in fairly left swinging opinions and very little blaming of the people involved.
This was really annoying because the reaction to Trump's casual mention of it injected virulent American politics into everything around the world. We should have been able to discuss this and other topics without Rep/Dem nonsense spilling over, but instead any discussion of covid became nearly verboten, with even simply statements of obvious fact being banned. (ie, we haven't yet checked the Wuhan lab to see if Covid did in fact leak from there.)
I do find the correlation between vaccine hesitancy and conservative political views interesting though.
Is a parent far-right for demanding high standards from drugs they put into their children, or a leftist for not just accepting big-pharma's word?
I personally saw a lot of people be ejected from "the left" because of questioning the medical response to Covid. Many different circumstance, but they'd all run into the mandatory acceptance of the message. Some had been vaccine "wary" before and remained that way, others were pro-vax but doubted the safety given its minimal testing time, etc. All of these people were your average west-coast hippy type and they're now being told they're allied with unite-the-right anti-jew stuff in the USA.
I can't wait until the new affiliations drop and we can ditch the legacy groupings.
Wouldn’t republicans believe more in ‘each to their own, survival of the fittest’ (I want the best for my children) where democrats would be more ‘value for everyone’ (I should get vaccinated regardless of risk to protect my neighbours)
I imagine the Christian religion is more popular with republicans, which if true is equally interesting given it would contradict the above assertions (love thy neighbour, etc)…
With only two parties I don't think the parties themselves are good proxies for the views of the people who end up voting for them.
I think generally most people would want 1) each to their own 3) success of the hardworking 3) equality for everyone. With only two parties for the whole political spectrum neither group is actually that distinct. Many people vote on the key issues that impact their day-to-day and so there's generally no real difference on issues that aren't in the news.
Anyways, being on the west coast I assume that most of the Americans I'm talking about are Dems, and in Canada, probably 'Liberals'. I think their (perfectly reasonable) hippy distrust of government and corporations makes them doubt the "benefits" meaning they had no reason to do it for neighbors either. (This was 2+y ago now, who knows where they are now.)
A community meeting I went to a few years ago spent twenty minutes or so discussing microwaved water, and if the venue used a microwave and whether some people were "safe to drink the tea", and went downhill from there in a science sense. Everyone was very eager to help but it wasn't a terribly well informed group.