I don’t think they have a particular vision for the future they want. In fact, I don’t think most are aware they are supporting or opposing real life policies which have real effects on people’s lives.

I think most of them believe everyone is posturing and playing pretend at the “theater of life”, to signal their virtues for everyone to see and understand who is on their side and who isn’t.

The reason I think this is the countless examples where something either affects them personally or causes some issue which gains attention, and they declare that wasn’t their intention within the same breath they make sure everyone understands they still are conservative.

Take the many “pro life” women who find themselves in a life threatening situation with their pregnancy, eat absolute shit getting kicked around trying to find a hospital which will save their life with a necessary abortion, and then come up and say “I’m still 100% pro life but this isn’t what’s supposed to happen”.

I really think they believe everything they hear, no matter they support or oppose it, is just PR with no real consequences for anyone, because they had been living the same mundane life no matter what the bigwigs did or said, for decades.

Edit: The fundamental cause of this behavior is a lack of empathy, I think.