This correlation between religiosity and economical & social rightism holds across nearly the entire world:
Gaskins 2013: religiosity correlates with conservatism (on left-right self-placement, divorce, euthanasia, abortion, suicide, and homosexuality): sci-hub.st/10.1017/S00223…
Cingranelli 2019: in 1981-2015, higher religiosity (how often attend religious services) correlates with worse women's rights (right to vote, run for office, proportion offices held by women) and worse protections for female domestic violence victims: muse.jhu.edu/article/730069/
Cingranelli 2019 also find that religiosity correlates with authoritarianism -- lower respect for human rights (free assembly & association, free & fair elections, free speech): sci-hub.st/10.1353/hrq.20…
Why is this? Religiosity appears to correlate with more-conservative mentalities:
Hannover 2018: among German adolescents, religiosity correlates with sexism, fundamentalism, right-wing authoritarianism, and social dominance orientation: sci-hub.st/10.3389/fpsyg.…
Religion also seems to justify the status quo -- "divine right" or "opiate of the masses"
Shepherd 2016: among the religious who believe the USA is in decline, belief that God has a plan for the USA increases support for existing political systems: sci-hub.st/10.1111/pops.1…
The common cause for these traits may be that religious people think more "intuitively" (fast, unsystematic) while less religious people think more "analytically" (slow, systematic): Zuckerman 2013: sci-hub.st/10.1177/108886…>
This greater reliance on analytic thinking may explain atheists overrepresentation in higher ed.
This fact may have large effects on religion and scientific performance: Stoet 2017 found that more-religious countries have significantly worse scientific education performance; this effect is partially explained by HDI levels: sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.inte…
Religion certainly provides comfort and wholeness to many people. However, I believe the evidence shows that higher religiosity also brings social & economic conservatism, worse scientific performance, and weaker models of thought.
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Both anti-electoral leftists AND anti-leftist contrarians like Wu ignore that progressives in blue states have created public health insurance options!
2 already have them (WA CO) and 4 passed laws authorizing them (NV ME MN NM).
Progressives and leftists didn't "stop thinking about universal healthcare" -- in half a dozen states, we took the first step toward UHC in half a century!
it's actually absurd that "Democrats don't pursue power, don't want to win, and don't have political beliefs" has somehow become Mainstream Leftist Thought
like, this idea just dissolves on contact with reality 🧵
This idea often comes up around abortion
"It's all political theater, Democrats just use abortion to win, so they will never protect it"
If true, why have literally all Dem-run states actively expanded reproductive rights?
Are people just unaware of this fact? 🧵
This idea often comes up around trans rights
"Democrats just scaremonger about trans rights to win, they don't actually care"
If true, why have 2/3 of Dem states legally enshrined gender-affirming healthcare (and a dozen other rights)?
tankies are *already* calling Guyana a US puppet state that is "provoking" Venezuelan invasion
the "98%" figure is completely false -- currently, Guyana gets 50% of the profits and 2% of the revenue from the offshore drilling firms
Guyana is an extremely poor country with little leverage against megacorporations -- but it should fight for a better deal, as Brazil did!
last fun note here: the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), which is a state-owned enterprise, has a 25% stake in the productive oil field (Stabroek).
I'm glad that Exxon, Hess, and Xi Jinping can all work together to puppeteer Guyana! 🥰