Amerika

The latest Leftist trope comes to us right out of the Soviet Union: Right-wingers are not just mentally defective, but genetically screwed up. The figurehead study argues that we are antisocial:

Structural equation modeling was utilized to represent ideology in terms of right- vs. left-leaning orientation on social and economic issues, including participants’ views of Trump. Malevolent (+) and benevolent (−) dispositions and empathy disturbances were significantly linked with conservative ideology.

Big point here is that they use “buckets” to associate certain mental states with politics, inferring backward that because they find an association, the political view is the cause of the psychology, when in fact this is a wide category that embraces many people.

For example:

One factor that accounts for these associations is that RWA [right-wing authoritarianism] and SDO [social dominance orientation] share a common genetic basis with personality, especially low honesty-humility and low openness traits (de Vries et al., 2022), and political ideology (Cichocka & Dhont, 2018; Kandler et al., 2012; Kleppesto et al., 2024a). Personality and political ideology also have a common genetic basis (Kandler et al., 2012; Verhulst et al., 2012). These findings suggest that RWA, SDO, political ideology, and specific personality dispositions have a common genetic basis.

We find an antisocial trait, find overlap with a normal trait (“I trust only myself, most of humanity is crazy”) that is perfectly normal, and use this to rationalize conservatives as horrific psychopaths.

“Science.”

Consistent with behavior genetic research on ideology and personality, research across 33 countries found that low honesty-humility (H-H) traits were associated with conservative political ideology (Lee et al., 2018), though for the U.S. sample in this study the association was near zero (r = -0.07). Still, the association between H-H and ideology has been found when accounting for sample effects (Vitriol et al., 2019). At the same time, it is important to note that low H-H can be accounted for by a latent aversive (malevolent) disposition (Schreiber & Marcus, 2020). Additionally, a study of over 66,000 persons from 38 countries found that a malevolent propensity to “assign a higher weight to one’s own utility above others’ (i.e., socially aversive personality)” accounted for both sociocultural and economic conservatism (Moshagen et al., 2024, p. 1), and that a malevolent disposition accounted for more variance than H-H in predicting ideology.

They want to declare anyone but Leftists mentally and genetically defective so that they can remove us.

In reality, they have done what they usually do: create artificial categories designed to exclude anyone but the Leftist faithful.

Tags: conservatives, psychopaths