Maybe that differs per culture, but here in the Netherlands I know plenty of right-wing voters who don't deny the issue at all. They acknowledge it's a problem, sometimes even want to put effort into fixing it. Their arguments against are usually "we're such a small country, so whatever we do won't really affect anything anyway" and "it's already going quite well, no need to be ahead of the curve". I'd say that's actually by far the largest group of right wing voters in my personal experience.

Now personally I don't agree with them of course. Yes we're a small country, but als relatively rich and relatively bad for the climate. Also, adding all small countries together still adds up to a big amount of emissions. If all small countries would reason like this nothing would happen. And we're not exactly ahead of the curve either, even though we're relatively rich.

In a proper democracy some of these tribes wouldn't exist because all voters would be educated and have proper information about the state of the world and would vote based on what they think is the correct way forward, not based on irrational fears.

Doesn't really work if one of the tribes is fundamentally about denying human rights to a specific group of people. Any compromise with that position is already accepting that position as viable. Also the right outright denies the problem of climate change all together - and therefore are not interested in any compromise about something they don't believe exists, too.

The left and center parties can still work together but sadly the right has drifted too far away from what reasonable positions that you can compromise with are.

Democracy only works if people are more or less on the same page about reality - since than they can find a conses or compromise. If people can't agree on the nature of reality (is climate change real, is there a problem with immigration, are viruses even real? ) than democracy can do nothing, since there is no way to bridge that differences in a peaceful manner.

The five tribes identified are not present in each country, but rather it is a regional split according to which topic is dominating the current political debate.

In Southern Europe it is economic turmoil, in eastern Europe it is Russian agression, in some areas of western and central Europe it is climate change and in other areas it is migration. Finally there is the Covid, which is an issue in all countries.

And in a proper democracy, each citizen votes directly on matters.

Someone who represents only some of your views cannot effectively act as your representative.

Weird how they sometimes link their sources and sometimes not - here they link to the report being quoted, but most Guardian articles about a US court decision or a government report etc. just quotes the document without linking it.

Nope, if housing and cost of living is an actual problem for you, you're obviously too poor to be relevant to The Economy™ and its turmoils.

Not in my opinion, "economic turmoil" is if you are worried that speculative gambling numbers are too low so the poor serial investors will miss out on short term profits and if you are worried that taxes on people making over 10 million a year are rising to a small fraction of what the poor have to pay. That's "the economy"

I don't think the housing crisis and cost of living crisis is even represented in many goverments outside of pan-party press talking points to appease "the poors" that are worried about it while doing little to nothing.

Also some people are still miffed about the measures taken.

As I understand them, they feel very strongly that anything that curbed their rights in the face of the pandemic was unacceptable regardless of the consequences (which they seemed non-existent or acceptable). Therefore they (the think different people) think this is an important subject.

All the covid measures where taken by "the elite" to exercise power over the masses and thus this must be countered structurally.

I do not agree, but this is how I understand some of it.

Presumably the problems in health care systems shown by Covid, Long Covid and of course new variants affecting people with compromised immune systems.

I'd say that is practically over

The problem is that the media and political class has conspired to make you think that. It is most definitely not "over". Not as a live pandemic, and not as the aftermath ie long covid, lost school years, etc. It's like if in 2009 people said the financial crisis was over.

Only my perspective, but Palestine while certainly an issue, it's not as big an issue as in the US. The EU did not park an aircraft carrier on the shore of Gaza to support Israel, and while policy positions slide back and forth, the initial response was mostly a call for ceasefire. The US is the sole country that has been consistently supporting Israel.

Ukraine is a much bigger thing because of its proximity and because we back a horse in the race. And neither of them are as big as housing or cost of living or climate change, apparently.

I guess the study was started before the Israel Palestine conflict emerged.

This is a report from a Think Tank funded by organisations with specific political slants, including the George Soros Fundation.

It looks suspiciouly like it was framed - the purpose of Think Tanks is generally to generate technocratic explanations of for pre-determined "conclusions" - and they would be highly unlikely to give relevance to anything that makes Israel look bad, and if they did, then The Guardian would not publish it, as that British newspaper is aligned with New Labour and the Libdems and was a heavy participant in the "anti-semitism" slandler campaign to see off the threat of a leftwinger - Corbyn - as Labour party leader and which was so ridiculous they implied a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was an anti-semite in order to slander Corbyn by association for having sat on a panel in a conference were said Holocaust Survivor made some negative comments about Israel.

This would also explain why concerns like Corruption aren't mentioned in this "reporty", even thought at least in Southern Europe that's pretty high in people's minds - conceens about Corruption show a broader distrust and discontentment with mainstream politics after decades of it being dominated by the kind of politics this Think Tank espouses, and cannot just be framed as being about "external agents".

So the major concerns are climate change and it’s too expensive to live. Sounds like reasonable concerns that a continent spanning government agency should be able to address…

Now the part about the anti-immigration party being the most popular is concerning.