Is being left-wing harder than being right-wing in general because being left-wing requires more research and knowledge than just accepting the current right-wing status quo?
Is being left-wing harder than being right-wing in general because being left-wing requires more research and knowledge than just accepting the current right-wing status quo?
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The title reads like a very polite own.
Otherwise, depends on your circumstances. Do your nationally syndicated news media propagate right-wing or left-wing ideology writ large? Do your nation's school systems instill senses of nationalism and xenophobia into its youth? Does your country's leadership more fervently and regularly repress one side or the other?
It is easier to be a fascist in a fascist state. It is easier to be a liberal in a liberal one, and a socialist in a socialist one. Half the battle has already been won at that point. There is comfort to belief in the system one lives under, a comfort that has the potential to breed ignorance or intellectual laziness.
My own experience shows that most people are more -- I hate to use the word, naturally inclined towards sympathizing with a left-wing perspective when the correct words are used.