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Excuse me if the question in the title is a too big simplification, but I suppose the pattern exists.

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[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 4 points 1 day ago

It really depends on what you mean by individualistic vs collectivist.

[massive generalization warning] Progressives think that the society should take care of a lot of problems (poverty, environment, equal access to education and what not), so you can consider them collectivists. But often the reason for that is such that the individual can achieve their own goals, thus they can be considered individualists.

Conservatives strive towards a uniform society, so they care about a uniform collective. In the other hand, they do that to support individual developments (mostly economical) in an evened out landscape. So they are also a mix of individualists and collectivists, they put the boundary between the two in a different place.