It blows me away how many people think that problems are straight forward when in reality, they’re all intertwined together

I mean, it shouldn’t be surprising…

It’s the result of decades of propaganda, most people don’t notice anything political until at most a teenager. So most under retirement age don’t know anything else. And the ones who are old enough, can’t remember and are the main propaganda targets.

For most Americans we’ve spent our entire politically active lives where both parties bow to the wealthy and instead focus on wedge issues and pressured to vote for their “team” even tho they don’t want them, just to stop the other “team”.

Hell, I know all about this, have for a while. But I’ve still voted straight party D for decades because I legitimately don’t have a choice. The problem is conservative voters are by nature more likely to motivated by fear of “them”. There’s actual brain differences that can predict party affiliation with like ~70% accuracy, which is fucking huge when you consider ~1/3 of voters don’t vote or waffle between the two options.

Larger/more active amygdala? You’re a conservative and fear is a huge motivater.

Larger/more active prefrontal cortex? You’re a “bleeding heart liberal” who wants everyone to be taken care of.

It’s not like it’s set at birth, even well into adulthood your brain can change. But without completely going on another tangent, for decades now the part of our education system that develops the prefrontal cortex has been getting sliced off. So I don’t understand why people were surprised the people coming out of that system are more conservative.

We aren’t born well adjusted humans, it takes work to socialize us like any other animal. And we just stopped putting in the work.