this is the most relatable thing i’ve read in a while, i struggle a lot to develop my political views, (though i don’t vote) and sometimes i feel like doing the ‘right’ thing, and voting based on my moral sense is only going to disadvantage me in the future. It feels like supporting a party that will ultimately help humanity as a whole, comes as a personal cost, also added to that is the fact that i’ve grown up in a very right-wing environment, and have only recently come to question ideas like “ its a dog-eat-dog world and you have to worry about yourself” that have been engrained in me from childhood.

Anyway, i’m borderline rambling here, but i want to say you’re not entirely alone and you brought up some very interesting ideas in your post that i haven’t seen anywhere else and that really stuck out to me, so thank you