The whole world is socially conservative, you racist dipshit, including the United States. You still haven’t figured out that the reason why the Republicans are so successful at “culture wars” is because most people agree with them?

I’m a Democrat for reasons other than social issues, but if I was voting on the definition of “woman,” trans ideology in schools, the kind of family structure that is ideal, and other social issues, then I would be Republican.

Because most developing countries are extremely religious and heavily entrenched around a single religion.

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Is USA a developing country?

Life is brutal in most places. The more dangerous a situation, the more conservatives tend to dominate. Liberalism in the West is a luxury afforded to us by the economic growth and opportunities of the last century. This growth reinforced the rule of law and allowed liberal values to survive, and then become dominant. Whether we can keep it going or not, is one of the most interesting questions I ask my students. Whether we have reached peak complexity and are beginning a terminal decline or not, will probably determine the answer. There are no atheists in foxholes, as they say, and there are far fewer liberals in a post-collapse society.

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Anonymous wrote:Because they need to enforce rigid gender roles so that they can continue to rely on free labor from women.

Having lived in culturally conservative countries, women were the biggest enforcers of the traditional roles.

And you're too stupid to understand why that is.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they need to enforce rigid gender roles so that they can continue to rely on free labor from women.

Having lived in culturally conservative countries, women were the biggest enforcers of the traditional roles.

Were they educated?

They could be.

What people often don't / refuse to understand is that in other cultures, people have different expectations and idealized ways of living. I used to be judgmental before I moved abroad and experienced living in different cultures. The western progressive mindset is just another variant of colonialism.

You know that a lot of American progressives are immigrants from (or children of immigrants from) those other cultures and mindsets, right? You might have lived in other countries, but my family is from a conservative, developing country where women are both enforcers of traditional roles and also suffer from terrible, socially-accepted, abuse. It's complicated...and universal tolerance of every oppressive and illiberal idea just because it's from a different cultural isn't colonialism...nor is it even actually western progressivism. It's just a bizarre form of virtue-signalling run amok.

What is the evidence that is universally true? I don’t think it is. It’s mostly a function of patriarchal societies. Religion, military, and autocratic governments impose that shit to keep greedy old men patronage network in charge but that doesn’t mean the people like it. The better question is why do developed countries prop up corrupt autocrats in developing countries and help them keep their people down?

Because socially conservative religions come to exchange food and resources for conversion or if you go back far enough, giving people in developing countries the choice to convert or die. This is how Christianity/Catholic doctrine spread so effectively in most of these places.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they need to enforce rigid gender roles so that they can continue to rely on free labor from women.

Having lived in culturally conservative countries, women were the biggest enforcers of the traditional roles.

Were they educated?

They could be.

What people often don't / refuse to understand is that in other cultures, people have different expectations and idealized ways of living. I used to be judgmental before I moved abroad and experienced living in different cultures. The western progressive mindset is just another variant of colonialism.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they need to enforce rigid gender roles so that they can continue to rely on free labor from women.

Having lived in culturally conservative countries, women were the biggest enforcers of the traditional roles.

Were they educated?

Anonymous wrote:Because they need to enforce rigid gender roles so that they can continue to rely on free labor from women.

Having lived in culturally conservative countries, women were the biggest enforcers of the traditional roles.

Because they need to enforce rigid gender roles so that they can continue to rely on free labor from women.

Most of the world is socially conservative.

Which is why I've always been amused by the meme saying reality has a liberal bias, because if reality is the "real world" then reality actually has a quite conservative bias.

Education and religion

Question in title.