How Much Do Your Genes Shape Your Politics?

[BidenPresident]

“Partisan polarization remains the dominant, seemingly unalterable condition of American politics,” Pew Research declared in November 2021, a year after a presidential election that drew the most voters in American history (partisanship and polarization, it turns out, increase participation). “Republicans and Democrats agree on very little — and when they do, it often is in the shared belief that they have little in common.”

If anything, this holds even truer today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/opinion/politics-genetics-research.html

 

[BidenPresident]

"Research in political science is beginning to take seriously that this is indeed the case. A small but growing literature in the discipline has found consistent evidence that political attitudes and behaviors are at least partially heritable, and other studies have reported correlations between specific genes and political phenotypes."