2016 Postmortem

It is easy to understand how the unknown or things outside of our own control can be unsettling. Question/hypothesis:

A clear position in a social order is very comfortable in that one knows what is expected of oneself and others, a bit of "a place for everyone, and everyone in their place."

Beyond this though, being able to put somebody else into a position subservient to oneself implies the ability to extract value or profit from the labour of those of lower social status or power. Being independent, outside the system, or refusing to be subservient might easily be (mis)read by a conservative as an attempt to establish superiority to that conservative, and thus by extension an attempt to extract wealth from the conservative, which they would find frightening.

The fearful have a lower tolerance for disorder - or lack of control, thus, others must be put into their social order for the conservative to maintain control of their fear?