This story isn’t about politics… it’s about religion.
Politics is actually quite different, because politics has a proven genetic basis, and actual effects on the world. People don’t follow different political “colours” just because they are following a meaningless tradition. People inherit their parents’ politics, but largely through genetics. People have different personalities, so they want different things for their countries.
Politics is still a little bit like this article, but it’s misleading to portray that as the main factor in politics. Because it isn’t.
The past chief center of nazism in the world (Germany) became one of the most anti-Nazi nations. That’s evidence against the preposition that politics are significantly based on genetics as opposed to e.g. education.
Similar evidence may be the anti-monarchism of the Soviets when Russia was previously the most absolutist monarchy in Europe, the anti-communism of current Eastern Europeans, etc, etc
We can also mention how populations with the same ethnic base have becomes adherents of different political practices (e.g. South Korea vs Norther Korea)
On the whole I don’t see genetics having more than a minor effect on people’s politics, if any. It’s certainly extremely overshadowed by factors of culture/education/etc.
IIRC, there is a grain of truth in that, in that adults’ political stances tend to largely depend on the Openness personality trait, which IIRC has about 50% heritability.
Edit: I’d guess what Openness predicts is one’s position within one’s local political landscape, so this doesn’t even conflict with ArisKatsaris’s evidence.
I didn’t downvote this, but I think next time you make such a … nonstandard … claim you should back it up with evidence, not just baldly state that the prevailing/opposing view is false.
On the other hand, I may have an unusually low prior for “People have different personalities, so they want different things for their countries.”
This story isn’t about politics… it’s about religion.
Politics is actually quite different, because politics has a proven genetic basis, and actual effects on the world. People don’t follow different political “colours” just because they are following a meaningless tradition. People inherit their parents’ politics, but largely through genetics. People have different personalities, so they want different things for their countries.
Politics is still a little bit like this article, but it’s misleading to portray that as the main factor in politics. Because it isn’t.
I think it is the main factor in religion though.
The past chief center of nazism in the world (Germany) became one of the most anti-Nazi nations. That’s evidence against the preposition that politics are significantly based on genetics as opposed to e.g. education.
Similar evidence may be the anti-monarchism of the Soviets when Russia was previously the most absolutist monarchy in Europe, the anti-communism of current Eastern Europeans, etc, etc
We can also mention how populations with the same ethnic base have becomes adherents of different political practices (e.g. South Korea vs Norther Korea)
On the whole I don’t see genetics having more than a minor effect on people’s politics, if any. It’s certainly extremely overshadowed by factors of culture/education/etc.
And after the revolution it was still the most absolutist state in Europe.
This is an interesting and fairly significant claim. What is your evidence that it is true?
IIRC, there is a grain of truth in that, in that adults’ political stances tend to largely depend on the Openness personality trait, which IIRC has about 50% heritability.
Edit: I’d guess what Openness predicts is one’s position within one’s local political landscape, so this doesn’t even conflict with ArisKatsaris’s evidence.
I didn’t downvote this, but I think next time you make such a … nonstandard … claim you should back it up with evidence, not just baldly state that the prevailing/opposing view is false.
On the other hand, I may have an unusually low prior for “People have different personalities, so they want different things for their countries.”