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America's worst problems

GOP may not have caused all of them, but they will seemingly advocate for anything that harms the American people.
I wonder how much of this is from Leaded Gasoline >

I suspect it's primarily from a steady diet of faux outrage pumped through right wing media channels, staring with the rise of Rush Limbaugh, etc. Basically, tilted opinion replaced fact, and the opinion was always tilted to generate anger and fear, since this always sells well and is easy to get "engagement" with.  Keeping someone in a constant state of fear and/or anxiety has long term detrimental effects on mental stability and reason. I wouldn't even be surprised if organic brain damage from constant cultivated rage can be identified. I'd love to see some studies done on this. 
It's an interesting phenomenon to watch, the crippling of a nation for reasons that pretty much amount to marketing and enhancing ad revenue.
Civilizations come and go, they rise and they fall. In the past, great nations have fallen due to war, famine, drought, and so on. We may have the honor of being the first to fall due to mass marketing. >


Basically, there's actual scientific evidence that conservative brains are physically hardwired to be reactionary

This is anecdotal, but my experiences with conservatives over the past ten years or so has GREATLY correlated with this. They just constantly bring up political discussions, unsolicited, unwarranted. You have to walk around eggshells in order to not set off the part of their brain that might remind them of some Fox News segment that told them to be mad about this or have a strong opinion about that. Any insinuation that you aren't 100% on board is met with some type of challenge, however brief in conversation. >

In the brains of people exposed to constant nearly non-stop conservative propaganda, the amygdala (which regulates emotional function) is physically larger. Like it actually grows to a larger size, making them more prone to act on kneejerk emotional appeals.
Liberals have a larger posterior insula, which is responsible for awareness of your physical surroundings, and awareness of what your body can do/your own limits. Because of this, liberals are less likely to make hasty or rash "on-the-spot" decisions to problems.
You can probably safely assume that if liberal brains are wired to basically make you extra cautious and aware of what's going on around you, then liberals are naturally inclined to take global or large-scale issues more seriously. Conservatives will take smaller more selfish personal reasons into consideration.
Conservative = "I don't wanna pay any tax", that's a selfish personal reason. They're unwilling to contribute to society and are deluded into believing all kinds of misinformation and lies about how taxes work. They have no concern for the world at large, as long as they're okay (and maybe their immediate family, but sometimes not even them) nothing else matters.
Liberal = "we need to take drastic action against climate change", that's a selfless desire for the benefit of all life on Earth. A healthy planet will last for hundreds of millions of years into the future, massively increasing our chance of survival by giving us plenty of time to colonize the Solar System in the future. This would prevent humans from going extinct if something goes wrong on Earth. It would also make the air cleaner, providing immediate health benefits and reducing deaths caused by pollution, etc. >

Have they actually found that the conservative media causes a larger amygdala or is it that those with a larger amygdala are more susceptible to conservative media? >

You hit the nail on the head. The correlation is there but they don't know of it's the cause of effect of Conservatism vs liberalism.
Also the previous poster didn't mention it but the critical thinking centers are also larger in Leftists. >

Well then there are 70+ million Americans who don't have a functioning brain and still vote.  So that's terrifying. >

Exactly. How that many people voted against a $15/h min. wage and to forgive all student debt. Those two things have made life in the US so much better. >

Most people in Red states do not have student debt. Either Daddy paid for school, or they were lucky to finish the 10th grade before they were 21. >

When my dad came to visit at Christmas, he talked about how he was against student loan forgiveness because it wasn’t fair to the people (like me, he pointed out) who had paid theirs off on their own. I politely informed him that no, I still owe more than $10,000 and my wife still owes slightly under $10,000, and that the forgiveness plan would be tremendously helpful for us. In typical reactionary Republican fashion, his opinion immediately changed to be in favor of the forgiveness.
It is so exhausting that for republicans, programs intended to help people are only good if they, or someone they care about, can directly benefit from it. >

In a lot of cases, they oppose programs that they and their families need and use, because they cannot stand the thought that "Others", usually people of color, are able to use them too. They are perfectly happy to harm their families, friends and even themselves as long as they know that "Others" are suffering. >


President Joe Biden did enjoy one nice benefit from his 73-minute speech last night. Thanks to the caucus of House Republicans boorishly heckling him as if they were at a football game, Biden came off as confident, optimistic, and…normal, by comparison. He was the proverbial adult in the room, promoting a message that not all Americans will agree with, but at the very least sought to address their major concerns. >

I would say that the GOP seems to be the party that represents all of America's worst problems.