A new psychological study has found that people who report favorable views of Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits—and lower on empathy and compassion. The findings, based on two large surveys of U.S. adults, shed light on how personality traits relate to political beliefs, including support for Trump and conservative ideology. The research was recently published in the Journal of Research in Personality.
Uneducated, child-level emotions, an inability to discuss political viewpoints, and actual anger when criticizing their cult leader, who could have seen that coming.
Well, you’ve got to be mental to support Trump. So this was to be expected.
In other news, water is wet. I can only think how fortunate that one person must be who has no maga in their life, and had to read this study to learn this.
Indeed. I wish all the conservatives in my life could somehow have the fever break. I honestly think if some intervention was done, especially in their media diet[1], AND they got some form of therapy, whether it was also pharmaceutical or not, I seriously think at least half of them could be weaned off of conservatism.
Sadly, there is likely no way that intervention is going to be done at scale. Sometimes spouses or family do it, but I think it’s quite rare. Whole lot of men have zero friends and very little family in their lives, I think and Faux and hate radio is always going to be a flick away for people that don’t have real people in their lives. And the con elite know this. It’s often why this stuff is pushed out there at a loss, even if it loses money for years, like Faux.
[1] I remember reading recently that even having to have moderate weekly/daily amounts of something like CNN (lol), IIRC, would tend to moderate their views.
In other words MAGA would be very upset at this if they could read.
All republicans are cunts.
hey now, I’ve had only positive experiences with cunts.
Must be nice
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/s if it’s not obvious.
/s not necessary, the meme already implied sarcasm
Comical. Psypost also published this last week:
“New psychology research finds leftist causes widely seen as more moral — even by conservatives”
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Seems like a lot of words to say that they’re assholes.
No shit… Trying to destroy a country because their feelings say the imaginary sky wizard will save themselves and everybody who isn’t as cracker ass cracker white is wrong… Will lead people to believe they are narcissistic.
Don’t need the sky wizard part.
So conservatives.
No shit.
This should surprise no one who actually interacts with any of his more fervent supporters, that’s for sure.
When the conservatives say that “liberalism is a mental disorder”, it’s once again projection. It’s always projection with conservatives.
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
I mean, I’m genuinely surprised they would report it. Hi, yes, I am a manipulative psychopathic narcissist. Nice to meet you.
They definitely have less empathy.
If they had anywhere close to the amount that the left has, they would never have voted for this orange moron.
This just in! NO SHIT.
Some people tell me “you just sit these guys down and convince them out of their positions, trust me, it will work”
And then I read this stuff over and over and over again. Write these idiots off for christ sake. Gerrymander them away, shut off fox news, ban their dumb content creators from the internet and lock up every ICE agent in the country forever.
Whatever it takes, make them politcally irrelevant, then you can think about improving something.
I honestly do think quite a bit of it is constant saturation of hate radio and Faux News, combined with loneliness and/or undiagnosed mental disorders.
People are alone in their cars quite a bit and I don’t know if you’ve driven through certain parts of the country, but if you don’t have podcasts/satellite radio in your car, there is almost nothing but country music or hate radio in some parts of it. The con elite knew what they were doing when they funded all this stuff, often at a loss.
I bet more than half of the people deep in the conservative cult could be deprogrammed, but I just don’t see anything like that happening at scale. And it would be way too easy for them to slip back into old ways, since it’s like junk food in a food desert - it’s ever-present and easily accessible nearly everywhere, and there is virtually nothing healthy offered to counter that terrible diet, whether it’s a food diet or a media diet.
