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This is going to sound like a joke but I'm serious. Many Americans (mostly on the right but not entirely) believe in the following things so strongly - they will avoid common sense or even risk their health.
They should be free to do whatever they want.
They don't trust (big) government. This belief has existed for decades the right but now is at crazy levels.
They don't trust any form of authority or expertise. This problem has expanded and grew to dangerous mind rot in our digital era.
Even when it comes to health and medicine they think "doing their own research" trumps what pointy-headed scientists and doctors say.
Right-wingers suffer from "own the libs" brain.
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I made the list off the top of my head - maybe other Hexbears can add more items to the list. I'm sure there are more obvious things I can't think of right now.
Contrarianism is another one. They will do the opposite of whatever is most popular so they can feel like they're above it all. "Snowflake" is pure projection. Because reality has leftwing bias and material analysis is empirical, they join the right and bring their contrarianism with them.
Oh, trust me I know. Austria is similar with this shit. One guy even got the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art for his creation of magic water.
There's also the whole "return to the good ol days" bullshit they like to do, which I guess is the core of conservatism