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You could replace Conservative with Liberal very easily to be real. I mean you see it everyday on the news protesters. If something impacts a persons life they will show concern. Human nature is hell of a drug.
My last job was speaking to people on a daily basis and asking them questions. Average person doesn’t bring up political views. If they did it was because they are either far right or far left. Because for some reason politics are part of their identity.
Hardly, you can't swap them out at all. Here's the key difference: Liberals and leftists often protest out of concern for other people: Police oppress Black people. The rich oppress the poor. Men oppress women. Straight people oppress gay people. That sort of thing. Even rich, white, straight, liberal men may share these concerns. Conservatives protest out of concern for only themselves: Black people oppress me. The government oppresses me. The media oppresses me. Immigrants oppress me. Democrats oppress me. Feminists oppress me. LGBTQ people oppress me. Atheists oppress me.
Big difference there.
Liberalism is a conservative ideology.
Just because they don't fuck with politics, doesn't mean politics won't fuck with them.