Fascinating article on moral underpinnings of political thought

[pegkerr]

People vote Republican and liberal intellectuals are mystified. For their part, Republicans say that Democrats "just don’t get it." What is this "it" they don’t get?...

What makes People Vote Republican?

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I said in sleigh's LJ, where I first saw the link to the article:
I think it comes down to "Us" and "Them": liberals tend to have a more encompassing "Us" than conservatives do.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Yes, very true, though I think some liberals recognize the need to get beyond that kind of thinking. And at that point, the communication with conservatives really gets difficult. I don't think the "us-them" divide comes naturally to Obama, for example (though it does to Bill Clinton!), and maybe not to Al Gore.