Conservatives don't know anything about the person they voted for. They don't know anything about how their government functions. They don't know anything about their Constitution.

I promise they don't know what an amygdala is or what it does.

Internet arguments about brain science always get wild fast. Most of the time the science is a lot more complicated than the memes make it look.

For the curious ones, from Psychology Today:

"A larger amygdala is primarily associated with increased anxiety, heightened emotional reactivity, and stress-related disorders, often acting as a hyper-active "threat detector" Symptoms frequently include persistent fearfulness, depression, irritability, and hypervigilance, as the brain over-processes neutral stimuli as threats."

Whoever made the original meme is an absolute moron.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201311/the-size-and-connectivity-the-amygdala-predicts-anxiety

OMG they are so detached from reality that they are bragging about being terrified?

That would actually make a lot of sense.
And it's wild to brag about it.

Funny how conservatives aren't afraid of disease. You probably need a decent frontal lobe for that.

Hi, I'm a coward bc I'm not a leftist isn't the flex you think it is.

"I'm afraid more often and that's why I'm a terrible person!"

Lol inferior agenda. It probably means they think whatever they got going on is better, but it sounds like they're bragging about bad time management

"I'm more scared than you!" Is a weird flex.

I got mine removed and now I'm seizing the means of production.

I'M AFRAID OF EVERYTHING LIKE A REAL MAN!

Ah, the typical nazi idea of correlating random body measurements with complex behavioral and emotional patterns.

Went to a Mediterranean restaurant for dinner with my wife. We celebrated her birthday, and so decided to check the dessert menu. We generally don't get dessert, just never really lie thing, but this menu has a dessert called amygdalopita, which piques my interest. Why would they name it after part of the brain?

And so upon further research, we discovered that the Greek word αμύγδαλο (amýgdalo) means almond. And this really got my wheels turning, because it brought back memory of EMT classes, way back in like 2003, where they talked about the amygdala being named such due tonit being almond shaped.

So I like a dessert that not only tasted great, but also helped me make connections, maybe fire off some neurons I hadn't in a while.

conservatives have a hyerptrophied amygdala due to always constantly feeling fear.

"Be afraid." We have people posting "Be afraid." with 0% irony.
What?

The better educated you are, the more left leaning you tend to be:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/

Conservatives tend to be dismissive of science and empirical evidence:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160713172717.htm

Higher verbal IQ correlates with liberal attitudes:
https://www.psypost.org/verbal-iq-predicts-political-participation-and-liberal-attitudes-twice-as-strongly-as-performance-iq/

Whatever this dumb shit is, is a reaction to that. As usual, they project their own shortcomings on their enemies.

In any case, what it comes down to is basic empathy and morality. If you care for others, you tend to vote left. If you care for only yourself and your self-interests, you vote right. There is no debating that, it's stated right there in the fucking ideology.

So, the amygdala doesn't just impact fear response, it also does anger, anxiety, and stress. An overactive amygdala negatively impacts your ability to think clearly.

I'm autistic and have an oversized amygdala but that doesn't stop me from being leftist. I just feel compassion for everyone human. Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.