What about people who switch sides?
How do they determine what’s liberal and what’s conservative, anyway? I’ve never been sure.
There was a liberal/conservative test on here a couple weeks ago. Everyone who reported their score on FR essentially pegged or nearly pegged the meter on the conservative side. You just ask people how they feel about various lib/con splits in the world and they'll tell you. I'm sure if you went to a lib site and ran it you would get the opposite.
Anyone have a link to that quiz available?
Eric Hoffer in “True Believer” offers an explanation. Mass movements are appealing to individuals who want to escape a flawed self by creating an imaginary self and joining a collective whole. See both Elizabeth Warren as an example and Wikipedia: Eric Hoffer and “True Believer”.