We need a paper written that is the conservative answer to the putrid lib screed “conservatism as motivated social cognition” or something like that. Written at least a decade ago by Jost, et. al. if memory serves.
This article could be the seed for that paper. And all the articles done by John Ray (?). Fuzzy on the name.
An answer, not just to this but to higher questions, is found in God. It is idolatry to put Caesar in God’s shoes. It never works.
And no, I wouldn’t particularly try to formulate an answer in terms of secular psychology except as part of an explanation of how secular psychology cannot satisfactorily answer such questions.
God is more than imaginary. God if believed in actually comes through with promises. People know to look for God. But God will not have an idol stuffed into His shoes. Even atheists cannot evade the fact that they speak of universal norms, whose universality could not be supported without some central authority.
Liberalism is he expression of an ancient, rabbit-like, r-selected reproductive strategy, programmed by nature, and designed to exploit free resource availability. Give a population free resources, and it will shift it’s psychology toward liberalism. The five traits of the r-strategy, are all adaptations to free resource availability. If resources are copious, fighting is pointless, so the docile have advantage. If resources are free, every offspring will get food, so you don’t need to find a fit mate, and monopolize them with monogamy, plus promiscuity will produce more kids. Once promiscuity is advantageous, single parenting will predominate, and sexualizing young will also increase offspring numbers. Finally, r-strategists have no loyalty to in-group because there is no group competition.
The five traits of the r-strategy - docility, promiscuity, single parenting, early sexualization of young, and no loyalty to in-group, explain every facet of the Leftist psychology, from early sex-ed for kids, to communism and free birth control for everyone.
Liberals are just the rabbits of our society, and I expect once resource contract in the coming collapse will reverse the leftist slide we have been seeing.
“We need a paper written that is the conservative answer to the putrid lib screed “conservatism as motivated social cognition” or something like that. Written at least a decade ago by Jost, et. al. if memory serves.”
Conservatism is the distilled wisdom of civilization.