What I wonder is how much of that is innate versus learned.
Because it has been an increasing talking point among the right wing and evangelical churches that empathy is bad. And... a lot of that boils down to not having any.
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It's like the golden rule simply means as long as we each treat each other shitty we're good. There needs to be another qualifier, and empathy, or kindness, or something else also needs to be attached. But, look who's their leader! Clean. Your. House.
There is the Platinum Rule, which is to treat others how they would want to be treated. I've heard more references to it in the past few years than I have to the Golden Rule, so I take that as a good sign.
The silver rule is good too. “What you don’t want done to you, don’t do to others.”
Look at John Fetterman. He had a stroke, now he's conservative, callous, etc. so, I'd bet it's both nature and nurture, but the uneducated and religious are more likely to be conservative than liberal.
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No shit, Sherlock.
Don't forget pedophilia
They love kids, even the ones who aren't pedophiles still sexualize children all the time and are constantly thinking about how we must "protect the children"
You needed to conduct official research to figure that one out?
I'm up in Canada in northern Ontario and I have a few friends (on very thin ground mind you), relatives and associates who support or agree with Trump or MAGA ..... and all of them are racist, show signs of psychopathy, are manipulative, are callous and are narcissists.
9/10 if I meet a total ignorant jerk, they'll be a MAGA idiot
I would imagine it's an even wider scope than that... People who vote for bigoted, ignorant candidates are themselves bigoted and ignorant.
"LOOK AT THEM! THEY'RE JUST LIKE ME!"
(Votes)
Explains Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, John Kennedy, etc. etc.
“This paper was several years in the making, starting as a result of the 2016 election, and was designed to address why some people might view favorably a political figure with a history of business failures, bankruptcies, misogynistic statements caught on video, use of charity money for a self-portrait, etc,” explained study author Craig Neumann, a Regents Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas.
To investigate these links, the researchers conducted two large surveys with a total of over 9,000 participants from the United States. The first sample consisted of 1,000 men recruited online, about one-third of whom were racial or ethnic minorities. The second sample included 8,047 men and women who completed personality questionnaires on a public psychology website.
Participants in both samples completed a range of validated questionnaires measuring political attitudes, personality traits, and empathy. Political ideology was assessed through questions about general political orientation, preferences for military versus social spending, support for gun control, and evaluations of Trump’s first term as president. The researchers used structural equation modeling, a statistical technique that allows for the testing of relationships between multiple variables at once, while accounting for measurement errors.
Science confirming what we already know lol
As it should. Just because we think we know something doesn’t mean we shouldn’t measure it.
There is a book that gave a scientific explanation and it was written fifty years ago.
"Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. Toffler was a sociologist. He studied what happened in the past when there were radical changes in society. The first great wave was the switch from hunter/gatherer tribes to farming towns. 5,000 years later there was a leap from farming to industry. Both times there were people who couldn't or wouldn't adapt themselves to the new order.
'Future shock' was his name for the madness of people who would do anything to hold on to a past that was already dead.
Toffler was spot on with his theory, and his follow-up "The Third Wave" is equally relevent to what we're seeing with digital acceleration causing massive societal upheval.
His book "War And Anti-War" came out around 1996.
He predicted that the next American war would be against a non-state, maybe the cartels or a terrorist group.
Interesting article on the subject: https://mgorbis.medium.com/the-future-as-a-way-of-life-4bc314ec97de
You want a major mind fuck?
"Stand On Zanzibar" by John Brunner. Brunner's novel won the 1969 Hugo for Best Science Fiction Novel. It is set in the early 21st Century. The author based his predictions on Toffler's work. He imagined things like Detroit being a ghost town; legalized pot; the internet; AI ; well paid adults needing roommates and a lot of other things. He got enough right to be very scary indeed.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t
The weirdest thing about MAGA psychopathy is that Trump is in the Epstein files.
Yet another groundbreaking story from the pages of the medical journal "DUH".
You can just say nazis.
it just baffled me how many of them there are. It kind of feels like at this point it’s human nature honestly.
just as frustrating are all the people in the "middle" who are more ambivalent about trump but still voted for him because of egg prices.
It's just been made acceptable and even praised.
So everyone inclined is following suit.
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The same post under reddit:
MAGAs are shitty people. Gee, what a surprise.
Lower reading levels too.
Then they screech at everyone that they are “alpha.”
Boggles my fucking mind.
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I feel like at least one of those traits are a necessary prerequisite to getting indoctrinated into the Trump cult.
The real question is why all of those traits are seemingly super high right now.
I think its the same phenomena as why there are suddenly so many LGBT people around. In the past, such traits were punishable.
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The sky is also blue.
I bet there’s a higher prevalence of coprophagia as well.
Yeah I’m surprised. Surprised anyone needed a fucking study to know that.
In other news, astronauts have a higher chance of dying in space compared to someone who has never left their hometown
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Most of them can be identified from a distance thankfully
Say as they do. Do as they say.
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