Why do autistics support right wing policies?
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I think autists are less likely to be centrists because we are introverted social outcasts. We don't adapt our belief system to please others or fit in.
Personally my politics leads to a non traditional right. I am Republican(which is considered left wing in the UK) and Anti Christian.
I am against the welfare state because I grew up on and around it and saw how it does more harm than good. It paid my parents to have me before they were financially and emotionally ready. It did the same for many others which negatively effected my up bringing and education. The welfare state also means that if parents fail to raise their children properly it doesn't matter they will still get a state pension.
I am against immigration because the only power working class people have in the UK is the value of labour and immigrants devalue that thus disempowering us. They devalue labour and push up living expenses. Then despite this they call us privileged in our own country, they demand to adapt to suit them even though we never chose to become a multicultural country. Immigration also means the government can get away with failing to educate our own people and rely on foreign labour. Immigration also breaks the class bond to land. The people of Britain had our land stolen from us and we are owed it back.
I'm not against those things either. I don't think people who lean right are automatically against those. There are plenty that are, sure. But most people with common sense can agree that disability income is needed when the disability impacts your job opportunities and income. Also, even if I lean right on some issues, I do believe in free healthcare is very important. The US is behind in its healthcare system.
Anything that risks disrupting the status quo is treated with suspect. So naturally people who are either members of the ruling class/upper class tend to want to maintain the way things are. People who tend to support the status quo and conserving social status (i.e. class, race and social progression) in simple terms have a negative physiological response to progressive innovation and reform. Their brains have a tendency to be hardwired that way.
Hence why trump supporters have authoritarian and obedience complex with a desire to return to a simple time (a concept which never existed) where America "was great"
If liberals or progressives never existed we would still be living in caves
In Australia, we have free health care, even if at times it is slow in implementation...
(Well not actually free...The taxpayer pays for it...)
So you don't have to be a socialist here on this point...
If that was the case where you lived, you might not embrace the left as much as you do...
Once again I will point out that self-interest is a major component in political affinities...
And once again I will say I don't have a problem with that...
Why would someone not be pragmatic?...
I would say the human brain is wired that way...
I am sure you are not stereotyping here...
I believe you may be referring to a portion of the "bell curve"...
Hence why trump supporters have authoritarian and obedience complex with a desire to return to a simple time (a concept which never existed) where America "was great"
If liberals or progressives never existed we would still be living in caves
Hmm, that's not true in anyway at all. Many leftists are pushing for censoring speech, and it is going way beyond hate speech, even leftists who oppose war are being kicked off of social media like twitter and facebook. There are authoritarians on both sides of the political spectrum. Money hungry people pushing corporate agendas on both sides. Just the same, There are good people on both side of the political spectrum, most "good" people wish for people to have the most amount of freedom possible, that goes for both sides, republicans and democrats, they just disagree on what would be best. You also have idiots on both sides which lack common sense, from what I have seen, seems more like the left is outdoing the right on lack of common sense, that's why they are pushing for ret*d things like men calling themselves women and being allowed to compete against real women in sports, crushing their records, making them feel as if there is no reason to even compete in sports if they have to compete against biological males. They don't appear to be bright enough to see how terribly wrong and unfair that is for women, the whole reason the y segregated men and women in sports is because males have a huge biological advantage over women in sports, physical strength, bone density, muscle mass and endurance. These morons think you can just give a male hormones and it reverses male body. It weakens it, no where near to the standard of a biological woman. I believe trans should have rights, I'm not against them, but be realistic about it, feeling like a woman, taking hormones and having surgery does not make a man a woman nor a woman a man, all it does is make them seem more like the opposite sex, it doesn't make them the opposite sex, with current technology that is impossible. Women fraught hard to get their rights, now the left is working hard and doing a lot of corrupt things to take their rights away, like straight up lying and trying to convince people to damage their kids by asking them if they want a sex change at early ages. I've been watching a lot of material on this lately, they are lying to doctors and tricking them to go along with it by pretty nifty strategies, people who aren't professionals in anything writing out the steps for treating kids with gender dysphoria. There was a guy who had already discovered that the best treatment was therapy, around 85% of patients got over their gender dysphoria by the time they went all the way through puberty, they are trying to bury this information and insist the best treatment is puberty blockers and hormones which in no "real" study has shown it even improves their lives, they still maintain a 40% suicide rate. They are trying to bury transgenders who went through hormones and surgeries and regret that they did, they have weened their way into writing in medical journals and presenting false/bias and uncontrolled, unscientific studies and will not give doctors who disagree a chance to speak out. They first guy to do a real detailed study was the guy who treated them with therapy with an 85% success rate, most of them just grew up to be gay or lesbian, some even straight, with just therapy. Versus 40% suicidal rate before and after transition. There are a lot of people not happy with what is going on, happens to include gays, lesbians and transsexuals. Transition should be a last resort, when at proper age, puberty blockers have not been tested for long term use to raise kids on, and some of its affects are not reversible, which is one of many lies that is being spread. There is also no telling what affects this will have on brain growth in children, as puberty also affects the brain, so restricting that process can have very negative side-effects which are 'unknown' because this has not been tested, they are using kids as genie pigs. I've watched enough information to know this is true. Anyway, I know some people here don't like reality, they would rather hear the untested garbage theories and false/uncontrolled studies.
O yea, new thing I learned, puberty blockers tend to cause cancer.
