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Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

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If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

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The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

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By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

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Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

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If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.

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Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

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The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.

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Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: October 19th, 1963

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