Folks here are bleeding over from the post on community being a contributing factor. Ezra Klein has pointed at device access, but I'd like to take Ezra's theory

Folks here are bleeding over from the post on community being a contributing factor. Ezra Klein has pointed at device access, but I'd like to take Ezra's theory one step further: hope. Conservatives culturally live in a mind castle of sorts. Very few things actually shake them because their core set of beliefs, by their very virtue, do not really shift at all. Political conservatives also believe heavily in incremental progress. They don't actually care if they get all of what they want now. Even if they don't obtain it they'll obtain the ultimate prize for having contributed and that's all that really matters to them. Liberals on the other hand, and non-believers, are subject to science which by its very nature is often contradictory in the short term to ascertain longer term truths. Living year to year in that reality can leave your beliefs shook in one way or another. Liberalism is also not nearly as homogenous as conservativism when it comes to core beliefs; in fact, things change all the time and sometimes at a pace too fast for even liberals to keep up with. To liberals the future isn't filled with hope. Our planks have to do with equality, climate change, distribution of resources, and a variety of topics that are huge. Doubly so, were impatient and don't have a somewhat cynical view of incrementalism because the stakes are here and now on Earth, not in some after life.