Is Liberalism in the Genes?

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My conservatism comes from an intense preoccupation with political questions starting in childhood. I read a lot about the world around me, so that's another reason I'm more rational (and also more knowledgeable about the major problems caused by the actions of leftists and current regimes). I understand people in a scientific way better than most NTs.

I know I have my own personal bias here, but I'd have to say the main reason I became a conservative is because it makes more logical sense than anything else if we're trying to build a more just and free world for everybody.

I don't know if I like the term liberal. I think its kind of meaningless. They try to make out this group that isn't entirely against social safety netting but isn't entirely against private ownership as being some sort of extreme. I see liberals as mainly being centrists as far as the left-right spectrum goes. I guess, I lean more to the left, though, than conservatives, because I care about people. Yah, its about ideas, but it has to do with making sure people don't starve to death if the economy hits a hard enough down turn. It really has little to do with autism. I think autistics that are socially liberal are for the same reason anyone else is. To me, market anarchism/market liberalism is the absolute extreme of the right, and complete collectivization and common ownership of all things is the absolutist extreme of the left.

Also, I think autistics understand what its like to be marginalized, so they're more likely to empathize with other marginalized groups, such as gays and the poor. I could takethe argument the other way though. I could say autistics are marginalized by a large enough chunk of society that they're likely to develop a contempt for most people, becoming rampant individualist, neo-liberal types. I've seen a lot of liberals as well as conservatives. I think you'd have to do a study showing that liberals make up a higher percentage of autistics than the rest of the population if you really wanted to debate this. In my view, it depends on what beliefs you were raised with and what you've encountered in your life. I don't see it as a genetic thing.

I have actually found that being liberal doesn't equate to being tolerant. I have been extensively harassed by people whom are liberal online, I have beentreated poorly by some conservatives or moderates but never to the level I have seen from the left.

I've been called a racist for not agreeing with President Obama and not trusting the man. (Which I don't trust him because he comes from Chicago Politics and is friends with a Domestic Terrorist and was in the church of a man whom said, "G-d d*** America!" for 20 years). I don't care what color his skin color is.

I've been called a bunch of things for being against gay marriage.

Etc.

I don't know if there is two definitions of Liberal running around or what.

Well, I free ball sometimes, so I guess it might be in the jeans.

I have no trouble believing that there is a "liberal gene". I wouldn't say that your political, philosophical, or religious idealogies are predetermined as much as they give you a predisposition. For instance, my mother is a Protestant, but my maternal grandmother is Catholic. Despite going to Catholic elementary school, middle school, high school, and college, my mother eventually became a Protestant. We still say that my mother was just born Protestant. On the other hand, my grandmother, I am convinced to this day, was born Catholic. What we mean by that isn't that either person was predetermined to adopt a certain , but that the temperament they were born with caused them to be drawn to the beliefs they would ultimately adopt.