Well, not to insult anyone, but quite frankly it may be the simple fact that conservatives are less likely to be creative - or more specifically, that artists are less likely to be conservative. In fact, where ARE the Republican authors?
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/why-dont-republicans-write-fiction/
I'm a writer - I read the sticky that told me so! LOL. So, as a writer, I feel like it's my duty and obligation to experience as much as possible. I want to try new food, meet new people, ask them questions about their lives, see how they do things, what they eat, drink, and
think. That's the hardest part of all. Figuring out how someone else thinks. What makes them tick, why they think that, what made them like that. Nature vs nurture. And you know what else - the more I learn, the less I realize I know. And that just makes me appreciate everything even more.
My main point from that ramble is that I don't think my way of doing anything is the best. I want to move forward and embrace change with effervescence and excitement. And then I want to stick all that into a novel, of course.
But in order to do this, I have to lose myself a bit. I have to let go, sometimes completely, of things I thought were right and true. There's a tribe of people in Africa who sacrifice cattle still. Who am I to judge - why is that less moral than killing the cow normally? (They do eat it.) There's a group of hunter gatherers who live totally egalitarian lives - men and women are totally equal and tasks are mostly interchangeable, beyond the fact that the women do tend to choose some activities, such as rug weaving, while the men were more prone to hunting. But the other gender would still do those other tasks and it didn't mean much. Then there's a smallish group of people in China where the women do all the work and the men laze - kinda like America, but actually preferred that way.
So, sidetracking again, the conservative ideology dictates sameness. That's sort of what it's all about - staying with current traditions, customs, maybe even going back to old ones. New ideas may be toxic. Different ways of doing things could be bad. Let's keep doing things the way they are. Can you write as well when you're only coming from one viewpoint?
I think the call for diversity is a good one. There should definitely be conservative characters, as well as liberal, authoritarian, socialist, Marxists, libertarians, and so on and so forth. And I think they should actually be given equal credence, you know, depending on the preferences of the author of course, even though I lean pretty strongly liberal. On some days, though, I lean pretty hard right, some days I'm a socialist, on some a libertarian. On other days I'm a flying pig.
By the way, does anyone think this is actually from the fact that American universities are now strongly liberal? They used to be a lot more conservative if memory serves. Maybe folks from other countries can chime in - but I've seen people from UK, AU, and Canada, and those countries are more socialist than the US. Personally I don't think so.