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Bullshit. I know very super comfortable people supporting left. And I have seen super nervous anxious chanting right wing slogans.

• big85 5mo ago
  Indeed. The alt-right pipeline preys on fears. Gamers are afraid of losing their culture to "woke" game and anime localization, women in gamer spaces, and character diversity. As Göring said at his trial at Nuremberg, "the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
  • dyauspitr 5mo ago
    This is usually a different fear than anxiety. I wouldn’t even call it a fear, it’s more of a feeling of loss. Eg. Losing scantily clad women with big boobs in video games is a real loss.
• krapp 5mo ago
  The article isn't claiming that all anxious people support the left, or that all anxious people are leftists. The claim as made in the title is that "People with anxious tendencies are more likely to support left-wing economic policy," and as noted in the article this contradicts an established assumption within the political psychological community that anxiety makes people more right-leaning, because right-wing politics is based on a comforting establishment of simple, neat and objective ideals. It's an interesting article. You should read it rather than simply reacting to an overly-literal reading of the title.