Why does the culture shift leftward even though the country elects right wing parties?
Take the fact that between the end of World War 2 and the election of Donald Trump, the U.S spent as much time under Republican Presidents as Democratic ones, yet despite this the direction of the country’s culture could only really be described in the long-term as having gone in the direction that The Left wanted, and demographically further and further away from retaining the ethnic composition the U.S had in 1945.
Take also the example of the U.K: where between the end of World War 2 and the present day the country has spent much more time under Conservative Party rule than under Labour Party rule: yet again the values of the country have crept only really in a leftward direction: whether it be in terms of multiculturalism, tolerance of sexual minorities, abortion, family law and so on. In fact, some recent years under the Tory Party have given the U.K higher levels of immigration than even Tony Blair’s time as Prime Minister, and the introduction of flagship left-wing social policies like gay marriage – which was bizarrely presented as a ‘conservative’ value by then prime minister David Cameron. Imagine going back in time and explaining that one to a conservative-minded voter even ten or twenty years prior.