{"id":131376,"date":"2016-08-28T13:07:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T19:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/28\/primal-worldviews-and-political-differences.html"},"modified":"2016-08-29T23:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T05:07:38","slug":"primal-worldviews-and-political-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/28\/primal-worldviews-and-political-differences.html","title":{"rendered":"Primal worldviews and political differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A look at primal world beliefs and how they differ on average between Democrats and Republicans, and where supporters of Donald Trump maybe fit in<\/p>\n<p>(TL;DR: Republicans tend to believe more than Democrats that the world is <i>just<\/i> (the good are rewarded in life, the bad are punished) and <i>hierarchical<\/i> (if two things are different, one must be better than the other). Trump supporters tend to be a bit stronger, on average, in those Republican characteristics.)<\/p>\n<p>[h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104915224203075819082\" oid=\"104915224203075819082\">Rob Donoghue<\/a><\/span>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/jerclifton.com\/2016\/08\/17\/what-reality-are-trump-people-living-in\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/IrUkcOcgKoh89y1FFhQg05m89-nansI0079rs0WWO8uJast1LnNS_q1QKNfq_C6v_mp-Xsojhtclwqy-yIk9NhRhKRaWP0C9=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/jerclifton.com\/2016\/08\/17\/what-reality-are-trump-people-living-in\/'>What Reality are Trump People Living In?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIf you are anything like me, you don&rsquo;t quite understand what to make of the Trump phenomenon.  Sure Hillary is winning, but what is more interesting to me is that over a third of Americans st&hellip;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/GaPWa5i4h7V'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at primal world beliefs and how they differ on average between Democrats and Republicans, and where supporters of Donald Trump maybe fit in (TL;DR: Republicans tend to believe more than Democrats that the world is just (the good are rewarded in life, the bad are punished) and hierarchical (if two things are different, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/28\/primal-worldviews-and-political-differences.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Primal worldviews and political differences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137128,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/politics-has-become-the-new-tribalism.html","url_meta":{"origin":131376,"position":0},"title":"Politics has become the new tribalism","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Sep-18 3:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting look at how politics has become an increasingly powerful source of identity, not just an outcome of it. 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