[secretsatan]

There is undeniably a middle class anti vax wellness leftist movement whether it was originally conservative or not, unfortunately.

[userbinator]

Appeal to nature is something that definitely cuts across the political spectrum.

[lostlogin]

> Appeal to nature is something that definitely cuts across the political spectrum.

I wish this was true. How many right wing political parties support policies that improve the natural environment? Doing that is the domain of left wing parties, but I’d love to know of any exceptions.

[amanaplanacanal]

Conservation used to be quite popular in conservative circles before it got branded as a lefty position. Once that happened, everyone who thought of themselves as conservative started running away from it.

The US EPA was created by Richard Nixon, for example.

[happymellon]

> wellness leftist movement

Hang on, are we talking about liberal or leftist now?

Because a lot of these hoax "wellness" movements are conservative. Distrusting science and things you don't understand is a conservative mindset.

[TheOtherHobbes]

And trusting science while distrusting technology you do understand is a leftist mindset.

[happymellon]

I've never heard of that as a leftist mindset.

Do you have examples? People like the Luddites weren't distrusting of technology, they were distrusting of the owners using it to depress wages.