Thanks for being a good example of divisiveness.
Is Liberalism Worth Saving?
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SmarterthanYou
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calm down and look who I was talking to, if you want an example of divisiveness.
I did, he/she is a perfect example of what I am talking about, smug, "woke" and dismissive of all other views.
You are a perfect example of what is wrong with modern Liberalism.
My party, right or wrong.
BidenPresident
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shut the fuck up you stupid troll
evince
Truthmatters
He’s not a liberal
Geeko Sportivo
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People put way too much emphasis on the words Liberal and Conservative.
The truth is, as humans, we all have similar psychological traits, we are born with. However, we grow up and are faced with who we think we should vote for!
NOW Politically, Americans are highly divided today, and the gap between us is getting wider. People are digging in.
When it comes to issues of race, immigration, national security, public health, and environmental protection, they disagree about how the government should handle things like never before.
Political divisions now far exceed "divisions along basic demographic lines, such as age, education, gender and race. The share of Americans who sit in the middle of the political spectrum is lower, too.
Today, Bots, pundits, and hate groups have taken advantage of these widening differences on social media, in an attempt to drive Americans' opinions even further apart.
Fear of certain things, can make one more conservative. Threats of terrorism make everyone less liberal — researchers found this was especially true in the months after 9/11. During that time, the US saw a conservative shift, and Americans displayed increased support for military spending and for President George W. Bush. Brain scans show that people who self-identify as conservative have larger and more active right amygdalas, an area of the brain that's associated with expressing and processing fear. This aligns with the idea that feeling afraid makes people lean more to the right. Socially conservative views are driven, at least in part, by people's need to feel safe and secure. That doesn't hold true for people with economically conservative views, though.
Conservatives have more structured and persistent cognitive styles. Liberals and conservatives prefer solving problems in different ways. Liberals tend to draw upon a sudden burst of insight — an 'aha' moment, like a lightbulb turning on in the brain when trying to solve problems or work through a maze for example. I am not saying that liberals are any smarter than the conservatives. Just sayin' that the brains of Liberals had a tendency to reorganize their thoughts in more flexible ways, while the conservatives tended to take a more step-by-step approach.
Holding conservative views seems to make people more resistant to change and help them explain inequality. The social views of a conservative can help them satisfy their psychological needs to make sense of the world and manage uncertainty and fear. People embrace political conservatism (at least in part) because it serves to reduce fear, anxiety, and uncertainty; to avoid change, disruption, and ambiguity; and to explain, order, and justify inequality among groups and individuals
Conservatives preferred more simple paintings, familiar music, and unambiguous texts and poems, while liberals enjoyed more cubist and abstract art. Take my conservative friends that are in my band for example. They tend to stick to wanting to play all the most popular same old worn-out Rock songs that every cover band always tend to play, and for the liberals among our musicians, they tend to want to play more of the songs that were good, put on the deeper cuts on the albums of the same rock groups. And often times, the conservative members of our group say, "I never heard that before"- probably because they never even played through the whole album the whole time they owned it. Like I said, our brains are just wired a little differently, and it becomes obvious- even in the music we tend to consume and play the most.
Conservatives tend to avoid uncertainty and dislike ambiguity more than their liberal counterparts. Liberals are more likely to describe themselves as compassionate and optimistic, while conservatives are more likely to say they're people of honor and religion. Conservatives describe themselves as "responsible," "organized," "successful," and "ambitious," while liberals describe themselves as "loving," "tender," or "mellow." Liberals' top moral concerns tend to be about compassion and fairness, while conservatives are more concerned with loyalty, tradition, respect for authority, and purity.
The truth is, Liberals and conservatives extend feelings of compassion to different people. Conservatives tend to express compassion to smaller social circles than liberals. Conservatives self-report more parochialism in that they tend to expend their empathy toward more well-defined, closed social circles like the family whereas liberals self-report more universalism in that they expend their empathy toward more permeable, broader social circles, like the world as a whole.
I truly believe that Conservatives are more content in life than Liberals. Finding meaning in life is related to the sense or feeling that things are the way they should be, and that there is a sense of order that everything is the way it should be, AND OFTEN TIMES THEY HAVE THE MISCONCEPTION THAT NOTHING IS BROKE - SO DON'T FUCK WITH IT!
Liberals have the idea that most everything can be improved, and all problems can be lessoned, with a little effort, sometimes with money, and cooperation from others. Conservatives tend to think, if a someone else's problem does not affect me directly, then they have no reason to want to resolve it.
I may be drifting away from the term Conservative, but Trump supporters were more likely to connect with his overall personality and outlook on money than they were to support his politics, and they tended to agree with his statements like "people who are poor just need to work harder" and "vacations are for weaklings," while disagreeing with his statements like "I try to stay out of the spotlight" and "I don't like to gamble. These kinds of personal values were better predictors of support for then-candidate Trump than party affiliations or political ideologies.*"Trump supporters ... seek power over others, are motivated by wealth accumulation, and prefer conformity, hierarchy, but tend to forget all about clear-cut rules for behavior.
Liberals and Conservatives may both think they are applying judgment equally, as they each tend to judge members of their own ideology more favorably than others.
You know, the ole, "My guy is better than your guy, and My guy can do no wrong, But your guy is a Fascist" kind of thang'.
So, well, at least- we do all have something in common!
The truth is, as humans, we all have similar psychological traits, we are born with. However, we grow up and are faced with who we think we should vote for!
NOW Politically, Americans are highly divided today, and the gap between us is getting wider. People are digging in.
When it comes to issues of race, immigration, national security, public health, and environmental protection, they disagree about how the government should handle things like never before.
Political divisions now far exceed "divisions along basic demographic lines, such as age, education, gender and race. The share of Americans who sit in the middle of the political spectrum is lower, too.
Today, Bots, pundits, and hate groups have taken advantage of these widening differences on social media, in an attempt to drive Americans' opinions even further apart.
Fear of certain things, can make one more conservative. Threats of terrorism make everyone less liberal — researchers found this was especially true in the months after 9/11. During that time, the US saw a conservative shift, and Americans displayed increased support for military spending and for President George W. Bush. Brain scans show that people who self-identify as conservative have larger and more active right amygdalas, an area of the brain that's associated with expressing and processing fear. This aligns with the idea that feeling afraid makes people lean more to the right. Socially conservative views are driven, at least in part, by people's need to feel safe and secure. That doesn't hold true for people with economically conservative views, though.
Conservatives have more structured and persistent cognitive styles. Liberals and conservatives prefer solving problems in different ways. Liberals tend to draw upon a sudden burst of insight — an 'aha' moment, like a lightbulb turning on in the brain when trying to solve problems or work through a maze for example. I am not saying that liberals are any smarter than the conservatives. Just sayin' that the brains of Liberals had a tendency to reorganize their thoughts in more flexible ways, while the conservatives tended to take a more step-by-step approach.
Holding conservative views seems to make people more resistant to change and help them explain inequality. The social views of a conservative can help them satisfy their psychological needs to make sense of the world and manage uncertainty and fear. People embrace political conservatism (at least in part) because it serves to reduce fear, anxiety, and uncertainty; to avoid change, disruption, and ambiguity; and to explain, order, and justify inequality among groups and individuals
Conservatives preferred more simple paintings, familiar music, and unambiguous texts and poems, while liberals enjoyed more cubist and abstract art. Take my conservative friends that are in my band for example. They tend to stick to wanting to play all the most popular same old worn-out Rock songs that every cover band always tend to play, and for the liberals among our musicians, they tend to want to play more of the songs that were good, put on the deeper cuts on the albums of the same rock groups. And often times, the conservative members of our group say, "I never heard that before"- probably because they never even played through the whole album the whole time they owned it. Like I said, our brains are just wired a little differently, and it becomes obvious- even in the music we tend to consume and play the most.
Conservatives tend to avoid uncertainty and dislike ambiguity more than their liberal counterparts. Liberals are more likely to describe themselves as compassionate and optimistic, while conservatives are more likely to say they're people of honor and religion. Conservatives describe themselves as "responsible," "organized," "successful," and "ambitious," while liberals describe themselves as "loving," "tender," or "mellow." Liberals' top moral concerns tend to be about compassion and fairness, while conservatives are more concerned with loyalty, tradition, respect for authority, and purity.
The truth is, Liberals and conservatives extend feelings of compassion to different people. Conservatives tend to express compassion to smaller social circles than liberals. Conservatives self-report more parochialism in that they tend to expend their empathy toward more well-defined, closed social circles like the family whereas liberals self-report more universalism in that they expend their empathy toward more permeable, broader social circles, like the world as a whole.
I truly believe that Conservatives are more content in life than Liberals. Finding meaning in life is related to the sense or feeling that things are the way they should be, and that there is a sense of order that everything is the way it should be, AND OFTEN TIMES THEY HAVE THE MISCONCEPTION THAT NOTHING IS BROKE - SO DON'T FUCK WITH IT!
Liberals have the idea that most everything can be improved, and all problems can be lessoned, with a little effort, sometimes with money, and cooperation from others. Conservatives tend to think, if a someone else's problem does not affect me directly, then they have no reason to want to resolve it.
I may be drifting away from the term Conservative, but Trump supporters were more likely to connect with his overall personality and outlook on money than they were to support his politics, and they tended to agree with his statements like "people who are poor just need to work harder" and "vacations are for weaklings," while disagreeing with his statements like "I try to stay out of the spotlight" and "I don't like to gamble. These kinds of personal values were better predictors of support for then-candidate Trump than party affiliations or political ideologies.*"Trump supporters ... seek power over others, are motivated by wealth accumulation, and prefer conformity, hierarchy, but tend to forget all about clear-cut rules for behavior.
Liberals and Conservatives may both think they are applying judgment equally, as they each tend to judge members of their own ideology more favorably than others.
You know, the ole, "My guy is better than your guy, and My guy can do no wrong, But your guy is a Fascist" kind of thang'.
So, well, at least- we do all have something in common!
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