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But the pro-EU sentiment in Turkey in the past decade has become almost an Islamic cause and supported by the Islamic liberals and the secular liberals as well, of course.
I also caught myself thinking mean things about mushy, centrist liberals and greedy Wall Street bankers and Islamophobes and slow drivers, because I really hate slow drivers.
Islamists, not the young liberals that sparked the revolution, won the majority in Parliament.
Whether they support Islamists or liberals, Egyptians' priorities for this government are identical, and they are jobs, stability and education, not moral policing.
It used to be that conservatives and moderates and liberals could all work together in Congress.
Americans on both sides care about global poverty and AIDS, and on so many humanitarian issues, liberals and evangelicals are actually natural allies, and at times they really have worked together to solve these problems.
Now this is a social disaster, and liberals are very concerned about this.
And then I saw the obvious link, because even we liberals love this country.
But liberals on my side, we can be self-righteous, we can be condescending, we can be dismissive of anyone who doesn't agree with us.
There Are Liberals under My Bed!"]
Liberals in these studies, on average, rank fairness— here meaning whether everyone is treated in the same way—above loyalty.
In later studies, researchers attempted to convince liberals to support military spending with a variety of arguments.
So for example, we asked people from different parts of the world about this question, people who are liberals and conservatives, and they gave us basically the same answer.
Liberals will say you're using religion and call you a bad conservative.
It's coming together around these ideas, liberals and conservatives, to help people who need us the most.
And he's shown, for example, that conservatives and liberals have a very different emphasis on what they think is important.
For example, Jon Haidt has shown that liberals care about poverty 59 percent more than they care about economic liberty.
And on the left, liberals, you're talking about economics, it's always about income inequality.
We need to come together around the best ways to mitigate poverty using the best tools at our disposal, and that comes only when conservatives recognize that they need liberals and their obsession with poverty, and liberals need conservatives and their obsession with free markets.
Won't a diet heavy in fruit and vegetables turn us into godless, sissy, liberals?
In study after study, we find that liberals and conservatives have grown further apart.
Liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, more and more they just don't like one another.
So one of the most robust findings in the history of political psychology is this pattern identified by Jon Haidt and Jesse Graham, psychologists, that liberals and conservatives tend to endorse different values to different degrees.
So for example, we find that liberals tend to endorse values like equality and fairness and care and protection from harm more than conservatives do.
And conservatives tend to endorse values like loyalty, patriotism, respect for authority and moral purity more than liberals do.
And Matt and I were thinking that maybe this moral divide might be helpful for understanding how it is that liberals and conservatives talk to one another and why they so often seem to talk past one another when they do.
So we conducted a study where we recruited liberals to a study where they were supposed to write a persuasive essay that would be compelling to a conservative in support of same-sex marriage.
And what we found was that liberals tended to make arguments in terms of the liberal moral values of equality and fairness.
Overall, we found that 69 percent of liberals invoked one of the more liberal moral values in constructing their essay, and only nine percent invoked one of the more conservative moral values, even though they were supposed to be trying to persuade conservatives.
And when we studied conservatives and had them make persuasive arguments in support of making English the official language of the US, a classically conservative political position, we found that they weren't much better at this. 59 percent of them made arguments in terms of one of the more conservative moral values, and just eight percent invoked a liberal moral value, even though they were supposed to be targeting liberals for persuasion.
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