Fear and Anxiety Drive Conservatives' Political Attitudes

 https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201612/fear-and-anxiety-drive-conservatives-political-attitudes

Empirical evidence suggests that conservatives and liberals don’t just have different outlooks and opinions—they also have different brains. This means that our choice of political affiliation and overall worldview may not really be all that much of a choice. Still, we must work to understand these psychological and biological distinctions so that we can ultimately use this knowledge to work together and find middle ground. Such information may also make us less vulnerable to those who want to exploit these dispositions for their own selfish agendas by using tactics like fear-mongering.