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Left and Right Wing Brains?

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Thanks for the post and links. I read a good part of the peer-reviewed article. I did not see where they thought the predictive capacity of brain scans was hereditary. Perhaps I missed this?

Predicting political orientation is different from how one acquires it. This is termed "political socialization." "People develop their political values, beliefs, and orientations through interactions with agents of socialization. Agents include parents, teachers, friends, coworkers, military colleagues, church associates, club members, sports-team competitors, and media (Dawson & Prewitt, 1969). The political socialization process in the United States is mostly haphazard, informal, and random." 6.2 Political Socialization – American Government and Politics in the Information Age

I am left wondering if perhaps the brain and nerves create pathways similar to stimuli that triggers addicts?
As people age there is a tendency of becoming more conservative for the reasons you have given.
Charlton Heston was an extreme case once being an active supporter of liberal causes and the civil rights movements, to becoming a conservative and president of the NRA advocating for gun rights and opposing gun control legislation.

People like Heston would make interesting test subjects to see if a change in their political ideologies with time would correspond to changes in their MRI scans.
 
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People like Heston would make interesting test subjects to see if a change in their political ideologies with time would correspond to changes in their MRI scans.

This sounds like the old "drinking milk leads to smoking marijuana" argument.

Unless you can show a correlation between they changing their political ideologies and a corresponding change in their MRI scans, you don't have a case.
 
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These type of studies involve the correlation vs causation argument made even more complicated as there is an overlap between the social sciences (how people react to stimuli) and the physical sciences (MRI scans as a result of the stimuli).
What the studies indicate there may a correlation between the brain activation patterns with people of very opposite political views but it doesn’t establish causation that people’s brains are hard wired to be left or right wing. (Which is why a put a question mark in the thread title.)
I guess it’s hard wired if as I’ve been told, I inherited my mind from
Genghis Kahn.
 
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I will never understand how individuals can show blind faith in Trump and how this individual has a chance of winning the election which would have been impossible a decade ago given his record for inappropriate behaviour.

There may be a biological reason for this.
PopSci article:- Political orientation could be predicted by differences in brain activation and synchronization
Peer reviewed article:- Deeper Than You Think: Partisanship-Dependent Brain Responses in Early Sensory and Motor Brain Regions
"Fear" is the catalyst driving this "false faith". This man has clearly demonstrated deception in it's peak form. He feeds fear then he presents himself as the savior from that fear. Think about it, think about it really hard.
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I think its more that Kamala actively mocked Christ during one of her rallies. To vote for Trump is more of an attitude of that fine, he doesn't actively live a Christ-like life, but he does indeed promote Christian values and isn't mocking Jesus' followers. For the common person like me I am not well versed in politics but I am able to see where the world is heading under Kamala and that is no good. I don't like engaging in politics much at all and don't really like to vote.
 
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"Fear" is the catalyst driving this "false faith". This man has clearly demonstrated deception in it's peak form. He feeds fear then he presents himself as the savior from that fear. Think about it, think about it really hard.
Be blessed.
There has got to be more to it than fear, why is it 80% of white evangelicals support Trump?
Since the Republican party has moved further to the right, it has become the party of choice for white evangelicals.
It wouldn't surprise me if many white evangelicals do find Trump detestable but operate on the principle 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' and will continue to support Trump as he is considered the lesser of two evils.
 
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The left has moved so far to the left it's left the country behind... The conservative right of old isn't even on the map anymore, that's how far left this country has gone.

We went from marriage being between a man and a woman to legalized gay marriage.

We went from no pornography in school to material considered pornographic by society at large being pushed on children in school.

We went from parents raising children to children being removed from loving parents by the state to transition them into the opposite sex.

All of the above is just in the last decade. They aren't content to stay out of our churches either they are blowing them up in every single denomination over social issues that have never been in the church before in all of history - and never should be.

Americans have never been as socially liberal as Europeans. America is still in much of it quite prudish.

People's minds broke pushing all this nonsense in under a decade...The rest of us just want to be left alone and not have to put up with the left-wings mental illness. They need to keep that stuff out of our lives.
Having a Russian background I've been compared to a distant ancestor, Ivan the Terrible.
Let’s not get together
 
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There has got to be more to it than fear, why is it 80% of white evangelicals support Trump?
Since the Republican party has moved further to the right, it has become the party of choice for white evangelicals.
It wouldn't surprise me if many white evangelicals do find Trump detestable but operate on the principle 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' and will continue to support Trump as he is considered the lesser of two evils.
Most Evangelicals are Dispensational Futurists. Fear is at the center of this theological system because it is always a moving target based on newspaper eschatology.
 
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but he does indeed promote Christian values and isn't mocking Jesus' followers.

Of course he's mocking Jesus' followers... he's using them. To their faces he thinks they're great, but behind their backs he thinks they're idiots. That's how he is with everyone. As long as they're behind him 100% he thinks they're the greatest people in the world, but step out of line and you're filth.

And Christians think that they're not being mocked. They're very God is being treated like a fool.

Sorry for the language, but somebody's gotta tell people the truth.
 
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Of course he's mocking Jesus' followers... he's using them. To their faces he thinks they're great, but behind their backs he thinks they're idiots. That's how he is with everyone. As long as they're behind him 100% he thinks they're the greatest people in the world, but step out of line and you're filth.

And Christians think that they're not being mocked. They're very God is being treated like a fool.

Sorry for the language, but somebody's gotta tell people the truth.
Truth is you’re no tele-mind reader.
 
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Of course he's mocking Jesus' followers... he's using them. To their faces he thinks they're great, but behind their backs he thinks they're idiots. That's how he is with everyone. As long as they're behind him 100% he thinks they're the greatest people in the world, but step out of line and you're filth.

And Christians think that they're not being mocked. They're very God is being treated like a fool.

Sorry for the language, but somebody's gotta tell people the truth.
No you're good lol. Hmm there is a level of uncertainty with things and I also suspect something is amiss. I just wonder what would be the social ramifications of each side. This does make me wonder about how the future will be like. In all though I have to defer to what is apparently supported among each group socially and what is not. I wish I knew the future :sigh:.
 
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First you say this:



Then you say this:



Which is it?

Do you understand, or not?
What? Just because someone post's information that they have read about and considered doesn't mean their mind is now TOTALLY set. Some people have standards for their evidence.
 
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