What a surprise.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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Actually science shows that I'm the goodest person.
You may be the goodest person, but my doggo is the goodest boy.
Nah, it's me. Empirically proven.
No banana, though.
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Small sample size of 55 participants that were gathered online and all from Israel. They are all ~25 yrs old and were split up based on what newspaper they read. The participants were free to label themselves but it was backed by asking questions of how they feel about their current administration policies. Kind of odd study.
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Politics for me reduces to how much and to what degree you want to not hurt people or for people to hurt. It's kinda simple even when the choices I'm front of us are complex.
Rightwingers like to punish and hurt as a means of control.
Listen to any liberal and that much is obvious since it is literally their entire stance.
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That's what defines "conservative". They are sheltered and are afraid of everything that's different, so they're trying to conserve some distorted ideal of what they alone think is "normal". That's why they're racists, gender bigots, and hate other religions. That's why most conservatives live in rural areas, while most people who live in cities are liberal— because exposure to a variety of people and experiences creates empathy.
I'm surprised not more people have caught onto this by now.
In other news, water is wet.
Now do socialists.
Both the popular article linked in the op as well as the actual paper seem to use the terms "liberal/conservative" and "leftist/rightist" interchangeably. Quote from the paper:
It is necessary to note that, first, similar to previous studies on this topic that consider the left–right dimension equivalent to the liberal–conservative dimension (Fuchs and Klingemann, 1990; Hasson et al., 2018), throughout this paper, the terms leftist and liberal (and similarly, rightist and conservative) were used interchangeably. The liberal–conservative dimension is often used in the United States, whereas the left–right dimension is commonly used in Europe and Israel (Hasson et al., 2018).
There were "only" 55 participants, but I assume that if some of them identified as socialist, they would already be included under "leftist/liberal" for the purpose of the study.
I'd be interested in seeing if there's any difference between liberals and actual leftists. I'd assume so because liberals aren't egalitarian, but there may not be a measurable difference.
Leftists are just liberals who are bad at math, so it probably would scale them about the same
It's liberals who keep insisting that trickle down economics is good for the economy actually.
I knew conservatism was a physiological brain defect. I knew it.
Facts do not care about conservatives' feelings. 😘
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