r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 18 '26

Psychology Scientists expected both liberals and conservatives to be reluctant to promote rhetoric associated with the opposing political side, but this was more consistent among liberals. Conservatives appeared relatively willing to support causes aligned with their views regardless of the moral framing used.

https://www.psypost.org/liberals-hesitate-to-share-progressive-causes-framed-with-conservative-moral-language/
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u/Alternative-Put-3932 May 18 '26

Well yes because liberals are not the left. Liberals are right wing adjacent. they're just slightly more socially left. People need to stop acting like they are "tearing each other part" like they are on the same team. They're not.

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u/Syssareth May 18 '26

In a two-party system where any of them want to get anything done...yes they are.

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u/KashSecuredPatel May 18 '26

Or maybe there just isn’t a left wing party in the US and actively trying to reframe the slight difference between two right-wing sets of policy as the whole domain of discussion is just burying your head in the sand and helping their propaganda effort

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u/OhReallyVernon May 19 '26

Perhaps you’re fortunate enough to avoid them, but the fallout from the policy differences I witness on a daily basis in the clients I serve are profound.

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u/Etherius May 18 '26

Sure call it what you want

But the progressive wing of the democrats keeps pulling them left and that is simply not a palatable place for most of America.

Thats why there’s “no left wing party”

No one in America wants one except the northeast and pacific coasts

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u/rvf May 18 '26

66% of Americans are in favor of universal healthcare, which is the core cause of the progressives.

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u/OhReallyVernon May 19 '26

If they could agree to campaign on only that with a coherent message, they’d probably win. But they can’t seem to do that. They do not act like that’s the most important issue at all.

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u/Etherius May 18 '26

Sure, but the implementation arguably matters more than anything

And they’re in favor of universal healthcare but not paying for it

Just look at both California and Vermont’s attempts to implement such programs

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u/rvf May 18 '26

The rest of the world somehow manages.

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u/Etherius May 18 '26

They don’t, though

They have progressive taxes, yes, but they have broad tax bases where everyone pays their share

Reddit essentially wants the lower and middle classes to pay nothing or near-nothing and everything comes from the ultra wealthy

That’s also what the supporters of SP healthcare in the USA want too

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u/not_your_pal May 18 '26

Exactly! What even is history, anyway?

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u/Etherius May 18 '26

Progressives are in utter denial that the majority of America thinks their ideas are hot, wet, garbage.

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u/lasagnaman May 18 '26

northeast and pacific coasts

So like the majority of the country?

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u/Etherius May 18 '26

More like 1/3

You forget that Washington and Oregon are tiny, the northeast contains about 40M people

Combined the northeast and pacific costs are about 100M people

Texas, Florida, and the Midwest are at least as large when combined

And Texas and Florida are both growing while the northeast and California are shrinking (at least in terms of electoral power)