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(…) My critique is really of pure reason – of the idea that reason can drive voters anywhere without passion in the gas tank. Reason and emotion evolved together in our brains. It wouldn’t have done our distant ancestors much good to perceive complex relationships – a skill central to reason - without being able to associate them with the feelings that motivate behaviour. Emotions are fallible, but imagine making decisions without them. We have evolved to pick up when someone is being defensive, is lying, or seems to be conning us. Those are all gut-level judgments. The problem comes when someone circumvents our gut logic.

(…) There is psychological research out there suggesting that the tendency to be liberal or conservative is about 40% genetic. What people are probably inheriting is a tendency to find change disconcerting or novelty exciting.

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