Liberals are weird, for sure!

Yep, a true wierdo, all my life.

I've been a liberal wierdo all my adult life !

We are all made of stardust..Carl Sagan said it..I believe it...and both sides are nuts

I have always felt a lot of kinship with Pluto far out and alone in the cold but happy for the solitude.

I really like being weird.

Couldn't be more opposite. Cons. are war like, and Libs just wanna play with Gaia.

All conservatives really want is to not pay taxes.

The only good thing about that book was the title. I read it out loud to a van full of teenagers and my husband at the time and interrupted my reading to comment. Try it on your next road trip. It is a trip.

Hmmm, so I tend to think things through analytically and I currently vote for liberal policies (since they're better than the conservative alternatives), yet I grew up in a rural/suburban culture and have lived in more conservative parts of the country for most of my life (although arguably where I'm from has become more centrist/liberal since I left). I see some of the points of the article, but think there's a lot of nuance. That and I'm only really qualified to speak from an American perspective, I don't want to extrapolate this onto other countries.

Weird is good and I am glad there are more of us than non-westerners.

It’s a good thing that they are doing this kind of analysis, it should hopefully lead to an understanding of the American conservative as a species... why do they do what they do? Here in the Netherlands practically the whole country is a flavour of socialist democrat, so the entire US landscape feels rather foreign and also distorted by two-party politics.

I saw the other day an article which said that politics was getting so deeply embedded in the American culture that you were starting to get Democrat cities and Republican cities, and that people of these different types were no longer willing to live alongside eachother. It seems crazy to me, and the whole system is ripe for reform.

Never labeled myself as a liberal. Still, I'm firmly in the camp promoting individuality and analytical thinking. Group-think and group-feel isn't for me.

Interesting read. I can see how the interconnectedness can lead to tribalism and an us versus them mind set when a community is stressed. I can also see the appeal of a skilled demagogue and how he could exploit that tribalism.

It is a thought-provoking article, but sort of counter-intuitive. Do rural people think more collectively than those in cities? To understand that requires analysis, which is hard for us conservatives, but yes, I get it.

Where the population is sparse it is important not to make enemies. People tend to be polite and deferring, and are quick to help their neighbors. They greet each other when they meet. In cities people often don’t even know their neighbors, and on the street they don’t even look at each other.

It makes sense that an intuitive person would look at DT and see a leader, while a hard-boiled analyzer might concentrate on policy. Religion is an intuitive endeavor, so it is reasonable that conservatives would tend to be more religious.

IMO a person from mars is not the opposite of a person from Venus, and a conservative is not the opposite of a liberal—each complements the other. And a person can have liberal and conservative traits at the same time.

Interesting study. I think it makes sense....as a Liberal, I can see me in it’s WEIRD analysis.

Interesting.
For those not following the link, with 'WEIRD' the article means "Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic".

So conservatives are like aliens.... ?