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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Also this myth that all of a sudden everyone will be left wing because the youth is that way inclined is an idea the left has been pushing for decades. It's bs. People change and grow up.

I have to disagree with this.

If we believe genes carry immutable characteristics that affects everything ranging from; eye color, height, violence tendencies and even intelligence, then why is it hard to believe that our own politics are also part of this process?

Being Left-wing since birth is not such an impossible concept. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau. All major leaders or politicians who never once told themselves "Maybe I shouldn't be on this team?" for as long as they were alive.

And we still have beliefs from when we are 16 years old. Maybe someone likes cars or motorcycles, or they're really into science, or maybe they always had criminal tendencies.

If there's someone who wants to abandon Liberalism for Conservativism when they got older, then chances are they never really were in that camp. Because making such a switch also requires you to have a stance on major issues like Capitalism vs Socialism, Free healthcare vs Private, Climate Change, Feminism etc.

And vice versa is also a true.

A Conservative person who suddenly has feelings for BlackLivesMatter and wants to give Blacks all your money, never understood what the "Conserve" part is suppose to mean.

So yes, I believe if we see a lot young White Liberals today, and they're all screaming "diversity is the future" while living in some dystopian neighborhood where Tyrone cucks his girlfriend every night, then the window for shifting political beliefs is getting smaller.

Look at South Africa. Look at Brazil. Plenty of White Liberals still live in those countries and are even prepared to fight you if you dare suggest they try and fix their nations by examining race.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

0.4 correlation last time I checked in terms of heritability for political opinions. Definitely somewhat fixed but hardly immutable.