Has Evolution Made Us See The Other Political Party As Dangerous

A Virginian psychologist argues that it is the evolution of how we view our shared need for each other that could most accurately determine our political standpoint. That the idea of the opposing political party is not only wrong morally to them, but also dangerous and not to be trusted. This idea that regardless of time or place, we seek a duality and fall somewhere on the spectrum between the two has been because of these evolutionary ideas.

Are some people just ingrained to be on the left or right? Or is it our experiences and what we are taught that decide this? I would guess that although it is likely to have the similar view that those around you do, it is hardwired in us of how we perceive society around us. If we constantly perceive that people are trying to “pull one over on us,” then their concept of liberalism and socialism would probably fall under dangerous. Does the duality have to exist though? I’m not so sure. Is it possible to have similar enough ideas that the duality is at least much more condensed? Probably. Even as our two political parties bicker, it is a far cry from the republican and democratic parties of the past. We move more towards center on both sides of the spectrum. It could be that we are evolving towards the middle, but more likely it is that politicians are too afraid over reelection to be too far outside middle ground.