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    1. …in reply to @undefined
      @IsasV Well, again, if you look at moral panics: all people (but especially conservatives) are deeply neophobic, I guess due to apparently heightened threat sensitivity. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201612/fear-and-anxiety-drive-conservatives-political-attitudes
  1. …in reply to @gordsellar
    @IsasV (Or, as I've seen it suggested, it may be that people genetically predisposed to higher levels of anxiety and threat sensitivity tend toward conservative politics. Though I will say years of bad run-ins with racists over here have left me hypervigilant, but not rightwing, so...)