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It is no accident that socially conservative ideologies are correlated with right-wing / authoritarian politics. It is such an age-old instrument of manipulatio

It is no accident that socially conservative ideologies are correlated with right-wing / authoritarian politics. It is such an age-old instrument of manipulation and control that I am tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology.

rhizome 13y ago
Just to be clear, there is a such thing as leftist authoritarianism, and that its effects can also be cast as a kind of social conservatism.
- collyw 13y ago
  This site has some nice information on it... http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010 http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010
- sitkack 13y ago
  As a leftist off of the numberline in Seattle, I can corroborate that thought terminating groupthink is alive and well across the social spectrum.
- w_t_payne 13y ago
  Sorry ... I didn't mean to imply that right = authoritarian. Leftist authoritarianism clearly also exists.
samstave 13y ago
>tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology. Nurture vs Nature..... I don't think this is anything but a negatively nurtured situation....
trhway 13y ago
>I am tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology yes, it is part of our species favoring r-selection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory (progressives are the ones who favor K-selection)
gaius 13y ago
It is no accident that socially conservative ideologies are correlated with right-wing / authoritarian politics Now you are just being silly. The USSR sent homosexuals to the gulags. China considered homosexuality to be a mental illness up 'til 2002, it is only when they started to become capitalist that they relaxed! In the UK it is the right-wing Tories that are bringing in gay marriage. Attitudes towards homosexuality are simply not correlated with left-right politics.
- thesimpsons1022 13y ago
  the ussr was socially conservative.

rhizome 13y ago

Just to be clear, there is a such thing as leftist authoritarianism, and that its effects can also be cast as a kind of social conservatism.

collyw 13y ago
This site has some nice information on it... http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010 http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010
sitkack 13y ago
As a leftist off of the numberline in Seattle, I can corroborate that thought terminating groupthink is alive and well across the social spectrum.
w_t_payne 13y ago
Sorry ... I didn't mean to imply that right = authoritarian. Leftist authoritarianism clearly also exists.

samstave 13y ago

>tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology. Nurture vs Nature..... I don't think this is anything but a negatively nurtured situation....

trhway 13y ago

>I am tempted to believe that it is innate and ingrained into our biology yes, it is part of our species favoring r-selection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory (progressives are the ones who favor K-selection)

gaius 13y ago

It is no accident that socially conservative ideologies are correlated with right-wing / authoritarian politics Now you are just being silly. The USSR sent homosexuals to the gulags. China considered homosexuality to be a mental illness up 'til 2002, it is only when they started to become capitalist that they relaxed! In the UK it is the right-wing Tories that are bringing in gay marriage. Attitudes towards homosexuality are simply not correlated with left-right politics.

thesimpsons1022 13y ago
the ussr was socially conservative.