I can think of three reasons why people might vote for a party like that.
1 - Some people believe that that is they the deity - however they interpret that term - wants it to be. Which, judging from nature is true.
2 - Some people buy the crap about how they too can rise to the top - see all the rags-to-riches stories we are continually being fed by the papers and TV. I recall a teacher in a Primeval episode asking one (female) pupil "And what if you don't win Britain's Got Talent?" Fiction agreed, but there is a good reason why those you speak of also talk about freedom to achieve, even as they rig the education system to make it impossible.
3 - For some people, freedom to make one's own choices is genuinely frightening. How much that is a cultural thing, and how much a deeper problem, I cannot say. Certainly, human societies of all types have been prone to hierarchy. The groups you are moaning about also push order. It is worth noting that, historically speaking, rebellions are more likely against changes - even when they are clear improvements - to society than against existing poor conditions. Modern communications may mean that people are more aware of how their conditions compare with other people's, which is causing troubles for governments (see Arab Spring, the latest in a LONG line of such), but this is a very modern trend, and counter to previous tendencies.
Not everyone fits any of the above descriptions, you certainly don't, nor do I (I hope), nor, I suspect, do any of your other readers. But there are an awful lot of people who do fit one or another of the above descriptions.
Is the problem solvable? I sure hope so, and think it worth trying. But I am not certain.
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1 - Some people believe that that is they the deity - however they interpret that term - wants it to be. Which, judging from nature is true.
2 - Some people buy the crap about how they too can rise to the top - see all the rags-to-riches stories we are continually being fed by the papers and TV. I recall a teacher in a Primeval episode asking one (female) pupil "And what if you don't win Britain's Got Talent?" Fiction agreed, but there is a good reason why those you speak of also talk about freedom to achieve, even as they rig the education system to make it impossible.
3 - For some people, freedom to make one's own choices is genuinely frightening. How much that is a cultural thing, and how much a deeper problem, I cannot say. Certainly, human societies of all types have been prone to hierarchy. The groups you are moaning about also push order. It is worth noting that, historically speaking, rebellions are more likely against changes - even when they are clear improvements - to society than against existing poor conditions. Modern communications may mean that people are more aware of how their conditions compare with other people's, which is causing troubles for governments (see Arab Spring, the latest in a LONG line of such), but this is a very modern trend, and counter to previous tendencies.
Not everyone fits any of the above descriptions, you certainly don't, nor do I (I hope), nor, I suspect, do any of your other readers. But there are an awful lot of people who do fit one or another of the above descriptions.
Is the problem solvable? I sure hope so, and think it worth trying. But I am not certain.