The Leftist Personality: Left-Wing ideology as a biological phenomenon
(biopolitics.substack.com)
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I think you guys are off.
Leftism is not biological, it is the result of a broken up-bringing. Retards are not Leftists, it's just that many Leftists are retards. What Leftists actually do is politicize their developmental disabilities. What you guys are doing is working backwards along that line and ignoring that many of them are CHOSING to be vile as a resentful attack on civilization itself.
Nature v Nurture? It's likely both. Just like how a man of a certain ethnicity might have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism but he still has to consciously take many steps to reach that point. In the case of spiteful mutations it could be causation in addition to correlation. Someone who drew the short end of the stick in the looks department may find themselves at the bottom of the social totem pole and be more likely to join the "oppressed" classes. Leftists with good genetics are more likely to be the leaders, influencers, and financiers of their revolutions, either because the grift benefits them or they see themselves as The Annointed.
It's always both. It's never either or. Nature certainly, obviously, effect nurture. But Nurture can actually effect nature through sex selection, diet, violence, or behaviors that activate certain parts of the genetic code.
I don't think people are this broken through simple natural outcome without being fully low functioning. Whatever natural problems a Leftist might have, the fact that they are politically rationalizing it through psuedo-intellectualism is indicative that they have the natural mental faculties not to be resentment mongering Leftists, but they chose to go down the bad path.
This is why so many of the low IQ people who barely graduate high school are also conservative. Their mental capacity is so limited that they are forced to rely on social institutions to carry the burden of cognitive load. They rely on tradition, because it is the assembled wisdom of ages and it tends to make the most sense to try that first. The high IQ people have the capacity to actually think through the problem and it's implications. But it's the midwits who are easily bamboozled by fancy words, and think they are verysmart, but are really only capable of rationalizing, rather than deep intellectual (or introspective) thought.
No, a Leftist would say it's the result of a material condition.
Upbringing and culture are a major impetus for your adult life. That's why child abuse is bad.