The frustration of the right and conservatives

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Why don't people seem to care about the frustrations the right or conservatives have about society? Or, why is it unpopular in today's society? I feel frankly very scared about where our society is heading with the modern trend leftward, and have a sense of doom about it even if everyone tells me things aren't as crazy. Even with all his controversies and outlandishness, forcing our current president out of office will not always bode well for society, especially in the more long-term. I get the emotionally sick feeling from it a lot. Our decline is only going to get worse, people don't understand or are just closed-minded. Overall, I will theoretically trade some of the social progress we made in the later 20th and 21st centuries for born and growing up, living in the America and society my parents and grandparents had growing up. The current context of society gets too hostile sometimes and I'm starting to question whether my own existence of living right now is worthwhile.

And even radical feminism and similar ideas on the left are not as unpopular nor hated as traditional conservative or other ideologies more right-leaning.

Can you list some frustrations/concerns of conservatives you are thinking about?

To me their concerns are unfounded. What is so doom and gloom about liberal ideoligies? Two men having sex is a problem for them why? Mastrubation is a sin because a book says so?

In general, conservatives refuse or fail to see things objectively. They use their preconcieved notions as the ultimate truth. They refuse to accept facts, such as the Earth being millions of years old which can be proven with science. They are incapbable of seeing their own hyprocracy. How many Catholic preists are accussed of rape/molestation? Yet they point fingers at Muslims being pedophiles, and almost got Roy Moore elected in Alabama. Republican politicans stand for family values, but how many have mistresses? They're against abortion but have no problem with it when their mistresses get pregnant (Tim Murphy).

They're for state rights, but banning marijuana and gay marriage needs to be a federal law. They talk about free market captitalism and less regulation, but they repeal laws meant to keep the market fair and pass laws to limit competition. Look at how much trouble Google had trying to roll out Fiber in Kentucky. Time Warner Cable refused to provide boardband internet to a small town Wilson, NC. So the town decides to lay their own fiber, and immideatily NC Governor Pat McRory signs a law preventing/limiting municipal fiber. So if the free market is not able to provide broadband internet to a town isn't that a failure of the free market.

Why do some states have a law where car manufacturers can't sell cars directly? They have to be sold through dealerships, which provides very little value. They are just middlemen that increase the price of the car. What can a dealership do that a car manufacturer couldn't? If Ford wants to sell cars directly, but Dodge wants to sell through dealerhsips only where is the problem? Why is there a need for a law to limit how cars are sold? Apple sells iPhones in their own retail stores and sells to other retailers.

Lastly, take any conservative region. Look at their standard of living. Generally conservative areas are poorer, less developed, less educated, and more corrupt. Texas and Saudi Arabia/UAT are exceptions because their ecnomony is driven by oil. Take away the oil and see what happens. South Carolina takes more money from the federal govenment than it gives because of their "low taxes". They're a welfare state, but ironically they are a red state. How did lower taxes work out for Kansas?

Sorry for this rant, but I had to state all my reasons as quick as possible...

"Educational institutions have always been progressive."

No, they really haven't! Colleges and Universities were very conservative. Almost always.
There have been left leaning colleges in the past, but they were hardly "progressive". This purge of conservatism from higher learning didn't start until the late 1960's. Today, most college graduates can barely read or write. Useless majors such as "art history" . They don't have any skills for the real working world. I guess that's part of the "Progressive" learning system.

I realise the title might cause people to jump into sweeping comments on groups, but a reminder to stay away from talk like "conservatives are heartless" or "liberals are ruining this country" as these sorts of remarks poison the discourse.

I think the biggest problem right now is the handling of ideas - ie. mobbing, doxing, group identity beating back facts with threats, etc.. I've mentioned to people on Facebook occasionally, here I'm sure on many occasions, that the really salient divide right now is no longer left-right but between people who on one hand want principled debate, even principled disagreement, want know exactly what their opponent believes and why, and they're people who want to work toward solutions and walk away from debates smarter - on one hand - and on the other you have people who don't want to hold themselves to those standards, who want to brandish disconnected fragments of fact as cudgels, and they play the game of convoluting conversation, cleverly blending categories hoping no one can tell what they did, and trying to weaponize misunderstanding (or feigned misunderstanding).

That first way of doing things has been historically much rarer, and the later much more common, but I think our society's now going through a state of maturation where the later policy is really hitting obsolescence and it's going to have to get to where it's no longer generally tolerated or seen as such a pervasive problem that no one can do anything about it. I think the quantity of information on Youtube and other similar places has a lot to do with closing the gap between information, even wisdom, and the people who want it.

On the other hand we're in a strange time of relative peace where its tougher to blame problems on external forces and - in that silence - people are going a bit crazy. It's kind of like western culture is exorcising a lot of subconscious demons and the skeptic community has been the self-collected group whose come ready with collar, cross, and holy water for the occasion.

One thing that I think will be forever changed - we can't go forward with the really dumbed down outlooks we've historically had on human and cultural identity, motivation, and dynamics. We're too powerful, we'll have AI soon, we'll be able to land drones in almost anyone's lap we'd choose - our culture will perish if it doesn't get its integrity and I think that getting of integrity is the prominent emergency right now that you're seeing. If integrity doesn't become a staple in far more people's lives we'll never survive our own up and coming creations.