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" Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations. "
Think
Expectations
Judging
" By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist. "
Liberal
Emotions
Country
" Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service. "
Good
Congress
Smart
" Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk. "
Gun
Know
Family
" Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are. "
Talk
Values
Security
" Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility. "
Found
More
Far
" Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues. "
Social
Moral
Economic
" Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life. "
End
Friends
Down
" I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A. "
School
Morality
Moral
" I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement. "
Give
Authority
Maintenance
" If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them. "
Values
Will
Copy
" If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness. "
Finding
You
Support
" I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in. "
War
American
Culture
" In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive. "
Men
Conflict
Battle
" I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts. "
Think
Equality
Blind
" It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable. "
Experience
Travel
Personality
" Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree. "
Religions
Most
Say
" Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world. "
Colleagues
Liberals
Friends
" Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness. "
Understanding
Selfish
Tea
" Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople. "
Society
Business
Good
" Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality. "
Reality
Morality
Blind
" Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. "
Heroism
Morality
People
" Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves. "
Social
Like
Nature
" My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life? "
Looking
Life
People
" On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us. "
Feeling
God
World
" Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. "
Moral
Together
Compete
" People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have. "
Kind
Country
Voting
" People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe. "
Change
Long
People
" Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness. "
Vision
Religion
Greatness
" Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children. "
Children
Family
Marriage
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