You are probably right. But it is possible to love animals, travel on a budget and be conservative.
I’ve done it myself.
Only decades ago, we traveled freely across the globe.
It was standard to see, in third world countries, a bus packed to the roof with locals and scattered among them one or two Western youths, heedlessly wandering the backroads of the world.
In Africa, my wife and child and I traveled alone with strangers to explore hidden caves and mountains and deserts.
We walked at night through dark streets in Asia with no fear.
Americans--and the United States of America--were respected throughout the world.
Today, increasingly we are viewed with contempt--as much for the foolishness of our voting population and the weakness of our government and its leaders as anything else.
The American people have squandered their priceless heritage and allowed the greatest, richest, most powerful, and most just nation the world has ever known to sink into decadence, and the people of the world consider this with utter contempt.
I would not venture into those same places today.