Many of us are fixed on their political beliefs and we don’t change them but sometimes people do questions their foundations of their political beliefs.
I think that they are not alone that many other conservatives are questioning their party affiliation, many of them are conservatives because they want smaller government and less government interference but they are seeing that the Republicans have driven the national debt out of sight and instead of less government interference they are seeing more government interference in women and LGBTQ people rights.
I came across this article a while back and it goes to the heart of the differences between conservatives and liberals.
There is another article in Business Insider that looks into that.
So my point is that even though the Supreme Court dominantly conservative there is always hope that some of the justices will see the light.
Kansas lawmaker switches parties over GOP's 'absurd' LGBTQ platformShe is not alone; in California the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Tani Cantil-Sakauye changed parties.
"I can’t be complicit anymore,” State Senator Barbara Bollier said of her decision to leave the Republican party.
NBC News
By Tim Fitzsimons
December 13, 2018
Kansas State Senator Barbara Bollier has announced that after 43 years as a registered Republican and 10 years as a GOP lawmaker she is switching parties. The newly minted Democrat said Republicans’ stances on LGBTQ issues, particularly transgender rights, pushed her over the edge.
“My moral compass is saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’ and you throw that in with Donald Trump, and just from a moral position, I can’t be complicit anymore,” Bollier said in an interview with NBC News.
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“When the party adopted an anti-transgender piece to their platform,” Bollier explained, “that really, as a physician, set me over the edge, because we have more than XX and XY, and gender is a very complicated and important thing.”
Earlier this year, the Kansas Republican Party modified its platform to include the following language: “We believe God created two genders, male and female. Therefore, as defined by the Kansas Constitution, the benefits and privileges of marriage exist only between one man and one woman.”
“It’s absurd,” Bollier added.
California’s chief justice leaves GOP, says she was ‘greatly disturbed’ by Kavanaugh hearingPeople do question their way of thinking when they see injustice and bias.
The Washington Post
By Amy B Wang
December 14, 2018
The chief justice of the California Supreme Court, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, has confirmed she left the Republican Party in September, saying she had been unhappy for a while about the GOP label becoming “not something that reflects who I am.”
Cantil-Sakauye, formerly a lifelong Republican, told The Washington Post she had been mulling leaving the GOP for about the past two years.
“I’ve been a Republican since I was 18,” she said. “And I never really gave it a great deal of thought, because always there has been a give and take on both sides — nothing beyond the normal give and take of the heat of politics.”
She added, however, that she increasingly sensed "a certain amount of polarization [between the two parties] that doesn’t reflect who I am as a person and the values I have as a person.”
As CALmatters first reported Thursday, Cantil-Sakauye said the final straw came after watching the Senate confirmation hearings of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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“I saw the hearings not as a chief justice, but I saw it as a mother of two young women. And I was greatly disturbed by the process,” Cantil-Sakauye said. “It was partisan. It was the tone. It was hiring a woman to place questions to another woman. It was the atmosphere, the timing."
I think that they are not alone that many other conservatives are questioning their party affiliation, many of them are conservatives because they want smaller government and less government interference but they are seeing that the Republicans have driven the national debt out of sight and instead of less government interference they are seeing more government interference in women and LGBTQ people rights.
I came across this article a while back and it goes to the heart of the differences between conservatives and liberals.
These key psychological differences can determine whether you're liberal or conservativeCan people change from being conservative to being liberal?
Business Insider
By Hilary Brueck
April 19, 2018
Politically, Americans are highly divided.
When it comes to issues of race, immigration, national security, and environmental protection, they disagree about how the government should handle things like never before.
Relative to polls in the 1990s, Republicans are now much more likely to say poor people have it easy, while Democrats are less likely to say so. Conservatives are also more likely to say that environmental regulations are costing the US too many jobs. Liberals now seem less convinced that peace can be achieved through military strength than they were decades ago.
The Pew Research Center reports that the country's political divisions now far exceed "divisions along basic demographic lines, such as age, education, gender and race." The share of Americans who sit in the middle of the political spectrum is lower, too.
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Being scared can make you more conservative.Decades of research have shown that people get more conservative when they feel threatened and afraid.
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A conservative brain is more active in different areas than a liberal one.Brain scans show that people who self-identify as conservative have larger and more active right amygdalas, an area of the brain that's associated with expressing and processing fear. This aligns with the idea that feeling afraid makes people lean more to the right.
One 2013 study showed conservative brains tend to have more activity in their right amygdalas when they're taking risks than liberals do.
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On the other hand, feeling safe and endowed with strength might make you lean a little more liberal than you otherwise would.Groundbreaking research that Yale psychologists published in 2017 revealed that helping people imagine they're completely safe from harm can make them (temporarily) hold more liberal views on social issues.
The authors of that study said their results suggest that socially conservative views are driven, at least in part, by people's need to feel safe and secure.
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Conservatives tend to display more ordered thinking patterns, whereas liberals have more "aha" moments.A 2016 study at Northwestern University found that when conservative and liberal college students were given word problems to solve, both groups managed to arrive at some correct answers through gradual, analytical analysis.
But when feeling stuck on a problem, liberals were much more likely to draw upon a sudden burst of insight — an 'aha' moment, like a lightbulb turning on in the brain.
This didn't mean that the liberals were any smarter than the conservatives. Rather, it showed that their brains had a tendency to reorganize their thoughts in more flexible ways, while the conservatives tended to take a more step-by-step approach. The researchers suggested this finding may indicate that liberals and conservatives prefer solving problems in different ways.
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Liberal and conservative tastes in music and art are different, too.Studies from the 1980s showed that conservatives preferred more simple paintings, familiar music, and unambiguous texts and poems, while liberals enjoyed more cubist and abstract art.
There is another article in Business Insider that looks into that.
So my point is that even though the Supreme Court dominantly conservative there is always hope that some of the justices will see the light.
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