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Blue states: paternalism over your property, liberty for your body Red states: paternalism over your body, liberty for your property

• gruez 7mo ago
  except for during covid, where there was a weird reversal.
  • anonym29 7mo ago
    I don't even know if that was much of a "reversal". Blue states were paternalistic over both your property (business and social gathering shutdowns) and your body (masking, social distancing enforcement), while red states (particularly Texas, Florida) were very laissez-faire for both. What's perplexing about this is that research has generally correlated higher amygdala activity (fear/worry) with political conservatism, and lower amygdala activity with political progressivism, but in this case, the effect seemed almost inverted.
    • mghackerlady 7mo ago
      In that case, I imagine that the response of mask mandates wasn't out of fear but was done do to the obvious benefit in controlling a disaster. The anti-masking movement is also I suspect a fear response. People are afraid of change, especially extremely visible change
    • logicchains 7mo ago
      Fear of infectious diseases is inversely correlated with testosterone levels, and so is liberalism.
    • bitwize 7mo ago
      When progressives become the status quo, they turn into conservatives. There's a meme going around about a 1950s Soviet communist vs. a 2020s American communist, and their diametrically opposed views on things like LGBTQ and immigration.
  • exabrial 7mo ago
    The funny thing is the more this comment is downvoted, the more accurate you know it is.