It was the second comment that did it for me. I grew up knowing the people who believed in money above all else were evil, but seeing how the “good guys” kept kowtowing to the “bad guys” made me realize they are all bad and the only solution is to dismantle capitalism.

Conservatism is still conservatism.

There must be a well defined, stratified, social hierarchy, and this system also must be morality itself.

This is what all conservatives believe and hold most dear... it does not matter that they are often too stupid to consciously realize this about themselves.

Their swollen amygdalas are terrified of uncertainty and the unknown, and a world that doesn't follow a fairly simple set of rigid, universal rules is essentially an apocalypse to them.

All that has changed in the last ~250 years is that democracy became normalized by way of violent revolts demanding it, or the powers that were acquiesing to reforms and limitations of their own power... so as to avoid a violent revolt.

This allowed capitalism to arise... initially it appeared to, or at least rhetorically presented itself as offering a more democratic approach to conducting an economy... but it has enough fundamental flaws that it guarantees the recreation of a stratified hierarchichal society.

Now, capitalism has fully captured most of the governments and much of the population of the West... and the Western Conservative is a-ok with this: Capitalism offers its own social castes, rules, morality system, and has the coherent power to be able to enforce these.

Democracy is just... a vestigial element of society, to a modern Conservative. Ancient, outmoded, optional. So long as the hierachy exists, and can perpetuate itself, of what use is allowing a potential for disruption?

Use of terms and "right" and "left" is from 1789 France. Supporters of the "Ancien Regime" sat on the President's right side and revolutionaries sat to his left.

I'm still unconvinced that's not a reason at least 10% of right wingers identify as such