Quote: (07-14-2018 05:05 PM)Dr Mantis Toboggan Wrote:
There are some similarities between hippies and preppers, I guess.
Hippies are only distrustful of government because at the time hippiedom became a thing, "government" was basically synonymous with the Vietnam War. To the extent you still find "question authority" rhetoric among modern hippies, they're simply parroting stuff they heard from the 60s. The left is the government now (Trump notwithstanding), why would they question authority?
Conservatives tend not to be the type that goes against authority, even in a non-aggressive way. Think of the type of people who dutifully send their kids to public schools while complaining that the school is teaching them that homosexuality is normal. The mindset of recapturing institutions from the left rather than breaking away to create parallel ones was historically the dominant conservative attitude in the past 50 years.
Along more practical lines, I'd wager that those on the right tend to have more invested in mainstream society due to having achieved a higher degree of economic well being. For example, if they had a stable job in a red state with relatively cheap housing, they'd probably have a house and a car and the loans that go with them. They might also be married and have bought a house in a district with good public schools. It's harder to just walk away from that to live in some hippie enclave, compared to people with no long-term economic prospects.