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A question for the author to consider: to what extent does participating in a right-wing protest or supporting a right-wing cause event endanger one's ability to keep their employment compared to attending a left-wing protest event or supporting a left-wing cause? E.g. Brendan Eich

Could the explanation be that the entrenched dominance in popular culture of one viewpoint made it too personally costly to profess another?

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"...why one side has for over half a century now drawn more idealistic people who want to dedicate their lives to changing the world..."

Baloney. It's drawn idealistic people who want to change the world through activism and politics, rather than medicine, engineering, biology, etc. Norman Borlaug, presumably an idealist, changed the world more than any community organizer.

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