I don't believe this for a second. Because the definitions of "liberal" and "conservative", and the political cleavages involved, change so much from era to era. There's no way genetics changes along with the definitions and the issues.https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1134877455813087232 …
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Maybe genetics has some influence on how much people are instinctively scared of novelty, or whatever. But I don't believe there's any stable correlation between that attitude and liberalism/conservatism.
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Despite the name, "conservatism" isn't always about skepticism of change. Often, it involves attempts at radical change to "restore" a country to a mostly-imagined past that no one actually has any memory of.
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Pre-Obama, the two things I most associate with conservatism in my adult lifetime are the Iraq War and the attempted privatization of Social Security, both of which seem to test high on "open to new experiences."
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I also associate conservatism with "let's continue with fossil fuels and climate be damned" which is, in many ways, the most radical gamble in human history. Openness to new experience indeed.
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I think this is why
@CoreyRobin's argument resonants with left-liberals my age (~40). Conservatives in my lifetime are not on a "don't tear down the fence until you understand why it was put there" thing, but instead a fast-moving "let's bulldoze all the egalitarian fencing!"6 replies 6 retweets 63 likes
Yes, exactly. For that matter, a politics of prudence & moderation would not rally under the standard of Donald Trump.
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When was this magical time of conservatives being skeptical of change? They love change when it's the change they want. They'll sign up for move fast and break things.
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