Ask Lemmygrad

It goes in both directions. The further you are from the dominant ideology you grew up in the more work you had to put in to get away from it - and while in general following research and evidence-based claims will push you to the left, that doesn't mean that there aren't an awful lot of people who get pushed to the left by non evidence-backed things, like their own anecdotal life experiences or just an internet personality that they jive with, so I wouldn't say that going left is always harder than going right.