Hey guys. The recent election has got me wondering the correlation between human biochemistry and political views.
It's no secret that men lean primarily conservative and women lean more liberal, but I haven't found any credible sources. Link related makes sense, but doesn't link to any data.
Hormones and Political Views
Austin Thomas
Robert Baker
Though I don't have any studies to back this up, I agree with that a general correlation is extremely likely. The reasoning being that the same hormones associated with cooperative rearing and caregiving cause sympathy and concern for others well being before ones own well being. This leads to support of social programs like funding for education and at the extreme, welfair programs.
Hormones that are higher in males are associated with aggression and selfishness, causing high testosterone people to lean toward capitalism, lower taxes (less for them, more for me), and exclusion of other groups from sharing the same rights (gay marriage).
The problem with identifying a correlation and proving this is that hormone levels fluctuate throughout our lifetime. It would be interesting to see if this leads to changing polititcal views. Some people are also smart enough to realize that the rationale behind some ideas (selfishness leads to trickle down economics, group cooperation leads to collective increase in wealth and quality of life) might actually be sound, and they sacrifice their instincts for the greater good.
Then you have to see the effect of nature vs nurture. It would be a cool study if done well.
Josiah Williams
>It's no secret that men lean primarily conservative and women lean more liberal
Actually from a biological basis it's the opposite, Men are more liberal and Women are more conservative. A good example of this is reproduction.
But of course when politics is in play it really depends on the economic models involved. Models involving capitalism go both ways since while methods in maintaining old wealth require a conservation of valuable resources. Methods in acquiring new wealth require far-reaching actions that tend to break norms.
Asher Hernandez
i think any genetic correlation will be alot more than just hormones.
im sure youll find a study like that here.
scholar.google.co.uk
Nolan Gutierrez
>no secret that men lean primarily conservative and women lean more liberal,
This is the case in present day America, you'd have a much harder time arguing for any such a pattern hsitorically.
William Ward
Women are more emotional, therefore more likely to act empathically. Hence more left leaning views.
Luis Harris
conservatives and liberals are both very effeminate.
only libertarians are masculine.
men can handle freedom, little girls need protection.
journals.plos.org
Lucas Russell
What new species of BS is this now?
>men and capitalism/right wing
men also came up with socialism, communism and all other kinds of political ideologies, and implemented them. By your logic our societies should be autocratic if men are biased genetically.
>though I don't have any studies to back this up
/thread, jesus, I thought this place relied on the scientific method?
Kevin Stewart
libertarian ideals cannot exist without a state to maintain and protect them. same goes for any ideals really
Benjamin Lopez
libertarian isn't anarchy for that reason, it is about minimal state intervention.
Luis Sanchez
>men also came up with socialism, communism
effeminate beta numales.
David Wilson
Marx didn't look very effeminate
Thomas Morgan
looks can be deceiving. i mean hipster numales have beards but are little faggot wimps beta orbiters.
btw bakunin >> marx
Aaron Cruz
The propaganda image of Russian communist or the Chinese communist didn't really rely on effemination. I mean hell Red Army was pretty manly. They rolled over Germany and raped all their women. Right wing just got cucked.
Lucas Howard
because soldiers weren't nannied at that time.
Cameron Peterson
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Andrew Bennett
Great minds shitpost alike. ten seconds of difference.
Christian Cooper
indeed bro.
Brayden White
also this is leftism today after years of nannying:
theguardian.com
>baww where is the black tranny cripple?
Lucas Rodriguez
also look at the similarity between ussr and nazi propaganda. i would argue though that both would devolve into babbies regardless of who won the war because both ideologies are authoritarian and rely on the big nannystate to babby them.
Jaxon Adams
This. Religion is also huge amongst women.
Brandon Cox
That picture is too low res.
Kropotkin is probably more Veeky Forums though.
Nolan Cox
A is for Anarchists and the theory they lack
In ten years' time they'll be liberal hacks
Their solution seems to be "don't call it a state." They justify corporate feudalism by property rights, when the intellectual foundations to private property are shaky as hell. The NAP basically requires you assume property is an a priori phenomenon.
>Stalin
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Owen Martinez
The more estrogens a man have the more effeminate they are, and therefore he would act more like a woman. It's not rocket science, you can see that women are more globalist/marxist looking at thousands of different statistics since women started voting.
Angel Diaz
I have incredibly high testosterone and am for welfare, despise the very idea of low taxes, understand the necessity of regulation and love taking care of people.
Jason Johnson
>incredibly high testosterone
"SIDE EFFECTS OF ELEVATED TESTOSTERONE LEVELS
Acne (primarily on back and shoulders)
Minor testicle shrinkage (not necessarily a negative)
Reduced fertility (can be offset with HCG and/or Clomid)
Hair Loss (can be decreased or prevented with Propecia (finasteride) and/or Nizoral Shampoo (ketoconazole))
Enlarged prostate (can be offset by keeping DHT and estrogen in check)"
Poor bastard.
Cooper Miller
The Western frontier died long ago in the Pacific. We've been witnessing the Western decline ever since. You are kicking a dead horse.