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Do we have another pandemic?! 馃槯

Is Leftist Disease going undetected? Could this explain what's stalking our country and causing so much human suffering?

When a normal healthy brain is damaged with brain disease, it sometimes leads to a pathological "liberal shift" or a reduced tendency to logic and reason in political ideology.

From the National Institute of Health:

[quote]Differences in political ideology are a major source of human disagreement and conflict. There is increasing evidence that neurobiological mechanisms mediate individual differences in political ideology through effects on a conservative-liberal axis. This review summarizes personality, evolutionary and genetic, cognitive, neuroimaging, and neurological studies of conservatism-liberalism and discusses how they might affect political ideology. What emerges from this highly variable literature is evidence for a normal right-sided "conservative-complex" involving structures sensitive to negativity bias, threat, disgust, and avoidance. This conservative-complex may be damaged with brain disease, sometimes leading to a pathological "liberal shift" or a reduced tendency to conservatism in political ideology.[/quote]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28264633/
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ElwoodBluesM
Leftist compared to what? In Europe & the UK, I'd be a conservative, but the US right-wing calls me "leftist." European & UK conservatives support universal health care, strict gun control, access to abortion, and carbon reduction to reduce global warming. That's what conservatism looks like in most of the developed world.
DffrntDrmmrM
@ElwoodBlues Perhaps the disease started in Europe and spread from there. Should we call it the Eurovirus? 馃
DffrntDrmmrM
@ElwoodBlues You get what I'm saying, right? The disease seems to have weakened by the time it crossed the ocean to the US... 馃