Let me offer you a couple more frameworks to think about it.
One is Haidt’s Moral Foundations framework. It is put forward in Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind, but Wikipedia tl;drs it thusly:
The original theory proposed five such foundations: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, and Sanctity/Degradation
…liberals are sensitive to the Care and Fairness foundations, conservatives are more sensitive to the Loyalty, Authority and Sanctity foundations and libertarians are found to have roughly equal sensitive to each foundation. According to Haidt, this has significant implications for political discourse and relations. Because members of two political camps are to a degree blind to one or more of the moral foundations of the others, they may perceive morally-driven words or behavior as having another basis—at best self-interested, at worst evil, and thus demonize one another.
My hypothesis is that progressives, conservatives, and libertarians view politics along three different axes. For progressives, the main axis has oppressors at one end and the oppressed at the other. For conservatives, the main axis has civilization at one end and barbarism at the other. For libertarians, the main axis has coercion at one end and free choice at the other.
Jordan B Peterson is doing further research on Big5 vs politics. He already has some intermediate results, such as dividing the “liberals” into “egalitarians” and “PC authoritarians” (the latter are similar in some aspects to the egalitarians, but in other aspects to conservative authoritarians).
I haven’t read about that much yet, but it resonates with my impressions of politics. The short version is: imagine the “motte” and “bailey” of social justice… turns out, they actually correspond to two different groups of people, measurably different in personality traits. (The “PC authoritarians” were already called “regressive left” at some parts of internet.)
Let me offer you a couple more frameworks to think about it.
One is Haidt’s Moral Foundations framework. It is put forward in Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind, but Wikipedia tl;drs it thusly:
The other one is Kling’s Three-Axes model. Briefly,
Jordan B Peterson is doing further research on Big5 vs politics. He already has some intermediate results, such as dividing the “liberals” into “egalitarians” and “PC authoritarians” (the latter are similar in some aspects to the egalitarians, but in other aspects to conservative authoritarians).
I haven’t read about that much yet, but it resonates with my impressions of politics. The short version is: imagine the “motte” and “bailey” of social justice… turns out, they actually correspond to two different groups of people, measurably different in personality traits. (The “PC authoritarians” were already called “regressive left” at some parts of internet.)