576. Politics And Instincts
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827122410.htm
"recent studies suggest that genes also strongly influence political traits. Twin studies show that genes have some influence on why people differ on political issues such as the death penalty, unemployment and abortion."
Political differences are basically different attitudes somewhere between the egalitarian view of all humans being entitled to equal rights, and the attitudes of inequality by justifying privileges and restricted access to resources either for specific groups or for the holder of specific positions of power. This favorable attitude towards inequality represents either one or both of the ingroup-outgroup instinct and the hierarchy instinct.
Thus it seems logical to me, that high or low levels of these two instincts do predispose people to lean towards specific political ideas. My emphasis is only on political general ideas, programs, goals, not on what politicians and parties really do.
Oversimplified it seems:
- Fascism and Nazism are attractive for those driven by a high ingroup-outgroup instinct.
- Globalized capitalism is attractive for those driven by a high hierarchy instinct.
- Other forms of conservative politics are attractive to those driven by a combination of both instincts.
- Those low on these instincts are more attracted to leftist and ecological political ideas.
As the level of instinctivity is innate, it seems plausible to expect people's political preferences to be partly and indirectly determined by their genes.
In my quest to find a mindmate, I am using a man's expressed political leanings, whenever they are indicated in a profile, not only as a direct indication for either propinquity or the lack thereof.
Even though the correlation between political preference and instinctivity is mere speculation, the probably high level of general instinctivity of a man with right wing preferences could indicate that such a man is also so much driven by his physiological urges towards female bodies, that he is an especially high risk for women being commodified and objectified by him.
There is also the risk, that a man with a strong hierarchy instinct also is more prone to establish and enforce a hierarchy of his domination over a woman.
