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Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives?
I'd argue that there is more fighting in the left-wing party, because that is where liberals face the most severe challenge to their politics, and where the liberal powers-that-be seek to cause the ...
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Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives?
Perhaps it is a psychological result of the situation in the last two decates, where the conservatives see themself as the weaker side, albeit still capable of scoring wins sometimes, and so they ...
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Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives?
Your premise is not correct.
First of all, the 2012 and 2020 elections don't count for your exercise because incumbent candidates almost never face any opposition from within their own party. This is ...
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Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives?
American liberals tend to have a wider range of ideological perspectives and are more diverse in terms of identities, which can lead to disagreements and internal debates. Additionally, liberals often ...
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Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives?
Because there is only one observable 'past'. And a multitude of proposed 'futures'.
First, let me make a frame change. The question implies the standoff between the Liberalism and the Conservatism, ...
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Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives?
This is kind of true even outside America.
The reason is that "liberals" tend to be less authoritarian and more democratic than conservatives.
So "liberal" parties in a democracy ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
Because the dominating tone in the media and as a consequence the perception of a big part of the population is skewed towards support of wild capitalism and corporate imperialism. Everything to the ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
The charts in Timur Shtatland's answer show a definite correlation between education and liberalism.
Notice that groups with strong conservative values remain relatively unchanged until they decline ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
A paper by Duarte et al. (2014) claims that: (emphasis mine)
Academic psychology once had considerable political diversity, but has lost nearly all of it in the last 50 years; 2) This lack of ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
Generally speaking, alignment with a political movement will not be very common among groups of people that are specifically demonised by that movement.
Consider what prominent right-wing figures in ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
Objective Truth
Academia is all about the getting closer to objective truth. The peer review process, where other academics look through your work and offer critical appraisals, is about the most ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
The simplest answer stems from the obvious point that:
Conservatives tend to like things the way they are, or at least the way they were — the status quo as they see it — and don't want much in the ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
Most of the groups you described are more educated. This includes Ivy League professors, professionals working in influential media and in fact-check websites, as well as highly educated politicians ...
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Who are modern ideologues/philosophers of Communism and how do they interpret Marx?
As you've pointed out in pt. 1, the countries calling themselves 'communistic' had little to do with communism as described by Marx. In the theoretical communism, the means of production were to be ...
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