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22 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Artisans, Baby Boomers, conservativism, cyclicity, Democrat, election politics, Generation X, Great Depression, Guardians, Idealists, Intuition, Keirsey, liberalism, Marlowe Embree, Millennials, moral foundations, presidents, Rationals, Republican, saecular cycle, Sensing, Silent Generation, Strauss-Howe model, Temperament
January 7, 2015

Independent of the historical cycle, Republican presidents tend more toward Sensing, while Democratic presidents tend more toward Intuition, as predicted by theory. This calls to mind G. K. Chesterton’s famous remark, “The job of liberals is to keep making new mistakes, while the job of conservatives is to make sure that old mistakes never get corrected.”
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Tags: Allen Hammer, Bob Beckel, Cal Thomas, conservative, Democrat, Jean Kummerow, John Giannini, Jonathan Haidt, liberal, libertarian, Marlowe Embree, morality, NF, politics, Republican, SJ, theory of moral foundations, values
September 3, 2013

Since Sensing and Feeling are not typologically opposed preferences, this may suggest that, contrary to what conventional wisdom might dictate, political liberalism and conservativism may not be logical opposites either. This may suggest a means by which the perspectives of the two political orientations can be bridged.
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