Political discourse can make it seem people on the left and right live in completely different universes, but buried in a new paper you almost certainly missed in the journalInstead the research leads with the rather anodyne finding that people’s political beliefs shape how they interpret history. Researcher Dr.
“These observations may help to clarify why people on the right often resist change: this may occur not much because they like the present, but, rather, because they like the past and they may view change as being a further step away from the past,” Dr. Rigoli said in I detect some generalized suspicion of the right in some of the word choices used by the author, which I myself found suspicious, despite being a life-long left-wing voter. But this is not what I found most interesting in these results.
“Contrary to predictions, the present does not appear to be evaluated differently by the left and the right,” the paper reads.