I don't get this. The whole (western) world is sinking, including my country x but I cant notice or complain that my country x is sinking if I'm conservative an

I don't get this. The whole (western) world is sinking, including my country x but I cant notice or complain that my country x is sinking if I'm conservative and every other western country is sinking? Could every sinking country have something in common... like being a Western country?