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    1. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 2 Jun 2019

      Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦 Retweeted Andrew Yang 🧢 ⬆️ 🇺🇸

      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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      Andrew Yang 🧢 ⬆️ 🇺🇸Verified account @AndrewYang
      According to twins studies between one-third and one-half of political alignment is linked to genetics; that is most of us are born somewhat wired to be liberal or conservative. If this is the case we need to build bridges as much as possible. It’s not just info or culture.
      82 replies 80 retweets 628 likes
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    2. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 2 Jun 2019

      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.

      10 replies 9 retweets 158 likes
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    3. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 2 Jun 2019

      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.

      24 replies 33 retweets 291 likes
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    4. Mike Konczal‏Verified account @rortybomb 2 Jun 2019
      Replying to @Noahpinion

      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."

      3 replies 20 retweets 141 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2019
      Replying to @rortybomb @Noahpinion

      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.

      5 replies 4 retweets 106 likes
    6. Osita Nwanevu‏ @OsitaNwanevu 2 Jun 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet @rortybomb @Noahpinion

      I've come more & more to consider the left the stabilizing wing of ideology. It's always about imposing constraints on the economy & securing/ restoring basic social obligations on some level, going back to the utopian socialism that emerged in response to early industrialization

      3 replies 6 retweets 93 likes
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jun 2019

      It's true that in America the most radical people (in terms of wanted to undermine institutions) are those who call themselves conservatives and the most tradition-bound ones tend to call themselves liberals.

      11:52 AM - 2 Jun 2019
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        1. Lawrence Glickman‏ @LarryGlickman 2 Jun 2019
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          This reminds me of “The Radicalism of Tradition” by @craigjcalhoun and a lot of 19th c. labor history on the desire of working people to stem the tide of the radically new force of corporate capitalism.

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