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Take a look at the work of political psychologist Karen Stenner. She studies what she calls the authoritarian disposition, people who like social norms to remain unchanged, what you're describing above. Yes, incurious, but they are caring about people who look like them and speak as they do. It's an enduring personality type, about a third of the people in any human society. Not a choice. See https://www.karenstenner.com/.

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I think this is part of the reason Trump caused so many familial/generational rifts. Imagine being raised by someone with an authoritarian disposition (or two someones) and then they go all in on this morally abhorrent wannabe dictator. It's just salt on the wound, you know?

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Yep.

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