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Leftward leaning needs
We trust you learned something valuable about yourself. We see you as valuable, no matter where you fit along the political spectrum. Your responses indicate you lean politically to the left.
Of the many influences upon your political outlook, your responses help us appreciate the central role of your needs. It is your experience of needs that pull you politically leftward.
Rightward leaning needs
We trust you learned something valuable about yourself. We see you as valuable, no matter where you fit along the political spectrum. Your responses indicate you lean politically to the right.
Of the many influences upon your political outlook, your responses help us appreciate the central role of your needs. It is your experience of needs that pull you rightward.
Your needs pull you leftward. Liberal politics allows you to express your unbending need for fairness. No amount of arguing from conservatives can change you. Until you feel fairly treated it's unrealistic to change this political view.
You understandably lean politically left. You likely rely on federal protections to guard minority rights. Unrestricted trade is off your radar. You feel the need for equal rights more than a need for free markets.
As a liberal minded person, you're keenly sensitive to the disadvantaged among us. You know how vulnerable the least among us can be to the exploitation of others. You appreciate how the state protects minority rights.
However, your general faith in big government can enable some troubling practices. Such as expanding the volume of regulations that can stifle innovative startups. Can you see how that could intrude on the needs of others?
Equality matters more to you right now than individual freedoms. You feel your social needs more urgently than your individuality needs. We see you experiencing a wide-first “psychosocial orientation,” to relieve your more pressing social needs of greater belonging, of social inclusion.
Unfortunately, political orientation theories tend to overstate the role of choice. We do not simply choose what we may need. We don’t flexibly choose our political beliefs; we find what gives expression to our less flexible needs. We can only change our politics when aligned with our needs.
Your needs pull you rightward. Conservatism allows you to express your unbending need for freedom. No amount of arguing from liberals can change you. Until you feel fully free it's unrealistic to change this political view.
You understandably lean politically right. You likely rely on free markets to provide you a decent living. Equal protection is off your radar. You feel the need for free markets more than a need for equal rights.
As a conservative minded person, you see the importance of efficient production. You understand how the profit motive fuels our creative energies. You appreciate how free markets have helped to lift us all out of abject poverty.
However, your general faith in big business can enable some troubling practices. Such as allowing self-interested companies to pollute the environment. Can you see how that could intrude on the needs of others?
Freedom matters more to you now than collective equality. You feel your ego needs more than your social needs. We see you experiencing a deep-first “psychosocial orientation,” to relieve your more pressing ego needs.
Unfortunately, political orientation theories tend to overstate the role of choice. We do not simply choose what we may need. We don’t flexibly choose our political beliefs; we find what gives expression to our less flexible needs. We can only change our politics when aligned with our needs.
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you’re generalized attempts to protect minorities from hate speech risks straying into shutting down the very communication necessary to resolve the underlying needs fueling animosities
Unfortunately, political orientation theories tend to overstate the role of choice. We do not simply choose what we may need. We don’t flexibly choose our political beliefs; we find what gives expression to our less flexible needs. We can only change our politics when aligned with our needs.
When our politics misses this critical and yet sensitive component of needs...
...we then easily misunderstand each other.
More leftward leaning
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When our politics misses this critical and yet sensitive component of needs...
...we then easily misunderstand each other.
More rightward leaning
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You likely lean leftward because you individually do not fit in well with the larger group of mainstream society. Or you lean left because of your strong affinity with others marginalized by established norms.
You seek liberation from traditional forms of oppression. Mainstream culture continues to exclude you in some ways. Liberalism offers the promise of being liberated from traditional forms of oppression.
In fact, your pressing needs keep you from recognizing how conservatives legitimately experience a contrary set of needs. We overcome political polarization by respecting each other's differing needs.
You likely lean leftward because you individually do not fit in well with the larger group of mainstream society. Or you lean left because of your strong affinity with others marginalized by established norms.
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Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions. - George W. Bush (7-12-2016)
In contrast to leaning right
If your liberal outlook serves your needs, then consider how a conservative outlook serve their needs. Perhaps we are not as different as it may seem. A first step to overcoming polarization is to understand both sides.
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We too easily assume the worst of others and the goodness of ourselves. We too easily presume the worst sample among them is typical, while the worst sample among us is atypical. We call this...
Removing this log in our eye can open new windows to our mutual understanding.
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You typically rely more on others than on yourself when addressing politicized needs, and the greater this difference the more political you tend to be. They rely equally on themselves and on others when addressing such needs, leaving them less political.
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Psychosocial orientation
We all need reliable external supports, such as from family for somewhere to belong or from the government to protect us from foreign threats. We also need reliable internal supports, such as being self-sufficient enough to feed ourselves or free to explore life on our own.
We naturally yearn for these in equal measure. We are at our best when we can freely rely on others as freely as we can rely on ourselves. But in reality we often settle for whatever the situation will allow.
Sometimes we find we can rely on ourselves more than we can rely on others. Other times we depend upon others when incapable of fully fending for ourselves. Often, this difference solidifies into an enduring gap.
This gap pulls us to cooperate with others in agreeable terms. To negotiate how best to grant each other personal space as needed, or how best to share resources as needed. In other words, with politics.
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Politics is the art of generalizing how to agreeably address needs in shared spaces.
A wide-first political orientation correlates with liberalism. In fact, what we call liberalism is the outward expression of the inward psychosocial orientation for prioritizing wide social inclusion of all over deep personal cohesion with a few.
In contrast, a deep-first political orientation correlates with conservatism. In fact, what we call conservatism is the outward expression of the inward psychosocial orientation for prioritizing deep personal cohesion with a few over the wide social inclusion of all.
Delving deeper still
Understandably, our politics gets more nuanced than what can be covered here. How does libertarianism fit into all this? What about populism, especially of the recent Trump kind? What about centrists and those who identiying themselves as independents?
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What you won’t find anywhere but here
We comprehend political orientation from the pioneering perspective of anakelogy, the study of need. This new field introduces us to our shared and yet diverse need experience orientations. One such “NEO” is our shared and yet diverse psychosocial orientation. We express our inward psychosocial orientation as our outward political orientation.
Psychosocial continuum
Anakelogy brings the discipline of not dismissing any expression of need.
Anakelogy sits outside of politics, peering into our political expresssions with an impartial appreciation for the diverse needs it expresses.
Anakelogy provides a basis for understanding our political outlooks not available elsewhere. Anakelogical principle help us focus on the needs underlying all political experiences. We can start with a few anakelogical principles:
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We tend to believe what we need to believe. We rarely can convince another into seeing something contrary to their own interpreted needs.
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Emotions convey needs. Politics serves as a form of organized emotions. Bias pulls attention to needs.
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Morality exists to serve needs. Apart from experiencing needs there is no good or bad.
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These are just some of the insights you can learn more about in the eCourses on anakelogy and its application in the eCourse on Politics Debunked.
Our changing politics
Conserved liberalism: a wide-then-deepening psychosocial orientation
Progressed conservatism: a deep-then-widening psychosocial orientation
Locked-left liberalism: a wide-yet-shallow psychosocial orientation
Whether the regressive left or illiberal left, [SJW] "snowflakes"
Locked-right conservatism: a deep-yet-narrow psychosocial orientation
Whether the alt-right or the John Birch Society, often dismissed as tribalism,
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If you knew conservatism aimed to serve less flexible needs, much as liberalism serves a different set of less flexible needs, would that change your attitude towards conservatives? What if their outlook comes from an authentic part of themselves? Would you expect them to change their authentic self to meet your expectations?
What if we turned away from triggering each other's defenses? What if we first affirmed the expressed needs of conservatives, without any assumptions we can do much about them at the momen? Instead of pushing them away, what if we attracted their respect for our needs by respecting their needs first?
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While I disagree with your politics, I want to know you better. I want to respect the needs behind those views.
You likely disagree with my politics. I invite you see the needs behind my political views, to know me better.
By appreciating each other’s needs better, I trust we can step beyond some of our political differences and get down to the stuff that really matters. Like our inherent value to each other.
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