I wonder how many people out there have missed out on investment success due to political beliefs. On the libertarian or rightwing side we have the gold people who believe that the US dollar will collapse any minute now due to the machinations of the Jewish/ Fed/illuminati/George Soros/international bankers/ conspiracy and also because there is too much debt because of welfare for lazy no good slackers. So it doesn't make sense to invest money conventionally because the Wall Street casino is rigged with fiat currency and due to implode in a few months at the latest. These people think that Gold on the other hand has been around for centuries, a time tested investment that you can't wrong with, and experts think that in the next six to nine months its due for a historic rise, so get in now.
On the left wing side we have people who think that the only way to be wealthy is to be born into it, the US capitalist system is rigged, based on anti-worker, anti-non-white evilness. Capitalism is basically a way for evil white cisgender males to dominate others, and the little guy (unclear if that includes the tens of millions of white male working class people btw) can never get ahead and the rich get richer so no point in even trying. Forget about working a little extra to have some disposable income to invest, a few thousand extra every year will never amount to anything, even if compounded for forty years, because in the end evil corporate boards of directors and their Republican servants in DC will end up stealing the money anyway and give it to defense contractors and the top 1%.
The sad thing is in my own extended family I know of people who fall into both categories and have missed out on the last decades of investment sucess for reasons like this (maybe not this cartoonish, but going in that direction).