It is no accident that socially conservative ideologies are correlated with righ...

rhizome · on Feb 27, 2014

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.

sitkack · on Feb 27, 2014

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 · on Feb 27, 2014

Sorry ... I didn't mean to imply that right = authoritarian. Leftist authoritarianism clearly also exists.

collyw · on Feb 27, 2014

This site has some nice information on it...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010

gaius · on Feb 27, 2014

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.

thesimpsons5454 · on Feb 28, 2014

the ussr was socially conservative.

trhway · on Feb 27, 2014

>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

(progressives are the ones who favor K-selection)

samstave · on Feb 27, 2014

>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....