because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it
just need to preserve this line because its so spot on
Thereās actually science behind it.
A brain scan can reveal a personās political leaning with like 80% accuracy, and I canāt stress enough how crazy that number is, the remaining 20% usually just arenāt political or in the middle.
Itās done by looking at the size/activity of the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.
A conservative will have more amygdala activity, which is our flight or fight response.
A progressive will have a larger preferential cortex, the part that gives us logic and empathy.
Itās always important to mention that this isnāt permanent, our brains are like muscles, use certain parts and they get more active and even physically larger (but obviously on a small scale).
We know that because thereās been studies on London taxi drivers. Before training their brains are normal. But since they have to memorize every street in London, by the time theyāre certified thereās a noticable difference in the part of the brain that handles navigation.
So itās not like theyre a lost cause.
And why republican leaders are so hell vent on removing āliberal artsā from schools. The people leading arenāt idiots, theyāre trying to make more conservatives
Thatās a really reductive oversimplification of the situation.
How does it account for PTSD sufferers at all?
Thatās nothing to do with itā¦
You could just as well ask how it accounts for penguins riding unicycles.
The only brain change with PTSD is the hippocampus, theyāve explicitly looked for changes to the amygdala and there isnāt any.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647246/
If you want to split hairs, there is a statistically insignificant change, but that makes it smaller.