About a decade ago. social psychologist Jonathan Haidt did a series of studies that showed that conservatives and moderates are quite good at anticipating the values and priorities of liberals, but liberals are quite bad at understanding how conservatives think.
Other studies show that conservatives have a more grounded understanding of the news than liberals, who have a much larger bias than conservatives when interpreting the news.
Now yet another study has shown that conservatives have much more empathy for their political opponents who are experiencing difficulties or pain than liberals do.
Liberals, who base their entire moral philosophy on claims to being empathetic and even on weaponizing empathy to get what they want (give me your money to help the homeless and building an entire industry around NOT helping the homeless), are generally…
