Leftward leaning needs
We trust you learned something valuable about yourself. We see you as valuable, no matter where you fit along the political spectrum. Your responses indicate you lean politically to the left.
Your needs pull you leftward. Liberal politics allows you to express your unbending need for fairness. No amount of arguing from conservatives can change you. Until you feel fairly treated it's unrealistic to change this political view.
You understandably lean politically left. You likely rely on federal protections to guard minority rights. Unrestricted trade is off your radar. You feel the need for equal rights more than a need for free markets.
As a liberal minded person, you're keenly sensitive to the disadvantaged among us. You know how vulnerable the least among us can be to the exploitation of others. You appreciate how the state protects minority rights.
However, your general faith in big government can enable some troubling practices. Such as expanding the volume of regulations that can stifle innovative startups. Can you see how that could intrude on the needs of others?
Equality matters more to you right now than individual freedoms. You feel your social needs more urgently than your individuality needs. We see you experiencing a wide-first “psychosocial orientation,” to relieve your more pressing social needs of greater belonging, of social inclusion.
Unfortunately, political orientation theories tend to overstate the role of choice. We do not simply choose what we may need. We don’t flexibly choose our political beliefs; we find what gives expression to our less flexible needs. We can only change them when aligned with our needs.
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Now let’s be honest. When some liberal person talks or acts crazy it may be an embarrassment to you, but you do not see them as representative of all liberals. But when a conservative talks or acts crazy you see it as typical of all conservatives. Right?
You see little if any good coming from conservatism. Mostly narrow minded bigots hating on minorities, right? We have a word for this human tendency to see the worst sample of our foes as typical of the whole group. We call it "pseudo-opposition." It's a cogntive distortion akin to fundamental attribution error.
We believe what we need to believe. If we need to believe all conservatives are evil, then our minds will be quick to find confirming evidence, and pass right over contradictory evidence. Their minds are doing the same to us.
Once convinced of their evil, we excuse ourselves from considering their needs, from listening to them as fellow humans, from seeing them with needs that we can discover how to serve. We can turn this around. We could be creating value, instead of demanding value.
We're not going to wait for them to respect our needs. We create value by modeling first how we would have them respect our politicized needs. What if a conservative actually listened and responded to what you need of them? Are you ready for that possibility?
We developed a process for you to engage them with greater respect for their needs, which may compel them to engage you with improved respect for your needs. We offer this same service to them.
We're moving past faux political arguments. We're delving into one another's diverse needs too ofen missed when stuck in debate mode. We're shifting focus to value people with needs we can valuably serve. For those ready to move past the demanding of value into the offering of value. Are you ready to move beyond political polarization?
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More leftward leaning
Click through each of these twelve slides to delve further into your leftward leaning need experiences. Be sure to hold your mouse over the slide to read the text. Navigate by clicking on the arrows to either side.
You see political problems as mostly black-and-white, without any unsettling fog of ambiguities. They see political matters as nuanced, and address them with a tolerance for ambiguity.
You rely more on generalizations to address politicized needs, which helps you build coalitions to serve the many. They prefer to be specific when addressing politicized needs, which helps them fully resolve such needs a few at a time.
You typically rely more on others than on yourself when addressing politicized needs, and the greater this difference the more political you tend to be. They rely equally on themselves and on others when addressing such needs, leaving them less political.
You see political problems as mostly black-and-white, without any unsettling fog of ambiguities. They see political matters as nuanced, and address them with a tolerance for ambiguity.
You likely lean leftward because you individually do not fit in well with the larger group of mainstream society. Or you lean left because of your strong affinity with others marginalized by established norms.
You seek liberation from traditional forms of oppression. Mainstream culture continues to exclude you in some ways. Liberalism offers the promise of being liberated from traditional forms of oppression.
In fact, your pressing needs keep you from recognizing how conservatives legitimately experience a contrary set of needs. We overcome political polarization by respecting each other's differing needs.
You likely lean leftward because you individually do not fit in well with the larger group of mainstream society. Or you lean left because of your strong affinity with others marginalized by established norms.
Conservatives likely lean right because they depend upon traditional forms of community for their place in this world. Or they lean right because of their strong affinity with others seeking such cohesive supports.
They seek to conserve traditional forms of social cohesion. Others from a very different culture could threaten their well-grounded cohesion. Conservatism offers the promise of conserving their socially cohesive local units, like family.
Sometimes they feel smothered by their local groups, but that's a small price to pay for their secure support. They see the free market as a force for good, with its self-determination for creating loose-knit supports.
Conservatives likely lean right because they depend upon traditional forms of community for their place in this world. Or they lean right because of their strong affinity with others seeking such cohesive supports.
In contrast to leaning right
If your liberal outlook serves your needs, then consider how a conservative outlook serve their needs. Perhaps we are not as different as it may seem. A first step to overcoming polarization is to understand both sides.
Click through each of these eight slides to better understand conservatism. Be sure to hold your mouse over the slide to read the text below. It may take a second or two for the text. Navigate by clicking on the arrows to either side.
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What you won’t find anywhere but here
We comprehend political orientation from the pioneering perspective of anakelogy, the study of need. This new field introduces us to our shared and yet diverse need experience orientations. One such “NEO” is our shared and yet diverse psychosocial orientation. We express our inward psychosocial orientation as our outward political orientation.
Psychosocial continuum
Anakelogy brings the discipline of not dismissing any expression of need.
Anakelogy sits outside of politics, peering into our political expresssions with an impartial appreciation for the diverse needs it expresses.
Anakelogy provides a basis for understanding our political outlooks not available elsewhere. Anakelogical principle help us focus on the needs underlying all political experiences. We can start with a few anakelogical principles:
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We tend to believe what we need to believe. We rarely can convince another into seeing something contrary to their own interpreted needs.
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Emotions convey needs. Politics serves as a form of organized emotions. Bias pulls attention to needs.
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Morality exists to serve needs. Apart from experiencing needs there is no good or bad.
Psychosocial wellness vs. psychosociopathologies
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These are just some of the insights you can learn more about in the eCourses on anakelogy and its application in the eCourse on Politics Debunked.
Our changing politics
Conserved liberalism: a wide-then-deepening psychosocial orientation
Progressed conservatism: a deep-then-widening psychosocial orientation
Locked-left liberalism: a wide-yet-shallow psychosocial orientation
Whether the regressive left or illiberal left, [SJW] "snowflakes"
Locked-right conservatism: a deep-yet-narrow psychosocial orientation
Whether the alt-right or the John Birch Society, often dismissed as tribalism,
Take a peek at what you would see if self-identifying as a conservative.
You lean solidly toward the left because you see political issues in more decisive clear-cut terms. Those in the center typically see political issues in more complex terms.
You see political problems as mostly black-and-white, without any unsettling fog of ambiguities. They see political matters as nuanced, and address them with a tolerance for ambiguity.
You typically rely more on others than on yourself when addressing politicized needs, and the greater this difference the more political you tend to be. They rely equally on themselves and on others when addressing such needs, leaving them less political.
You lean solidly toward the left because you see political issues in more decisive clear-cut terms. Those in the center typically see political issues in more complex terms.
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If you knew conservatism aimed to serve less flexible needs, much as liberalism serves a different set of less flexible needs, would that change your attitude towards conservatives? What if their outlook comes from an authentic part of themselves? Would you expect them to change their authentic self to meet your expectations?
What if we turned away from triggering each other's defenses? What if we first affirmed the expressed needs of conservatives, without any assumptions we can do much about them at the momen? Instead of pushing them away, what if we attracted their respect for our needs by respecting their needs first?
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While I disagree with your politics, I want to know you better. I want to respect the needs behind those views.
You likely disagree with my politics. I invite you see the needs behind my political views, to know me better.
By appreciating each other’s needs better, I trust we can step beyond some of our political differences and get down to the stuff that really matters. Like our inherent value to each other.
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