A 2023 study in the British Journal of Social Psychology has recently gone viral, confirming objectively what critical thinkers in the previous decade had already deduced: that the political right “diverges widely” in thought, whereas the political left “coalesces around a very narrow set of opinion.”
On Monday, June 23, Rasmussen’s Mark Mitchell, whose record of predictive accuracy as a pollster stands alone among all pundits in the previous American decade, posted a highlight from the viral British Journal of Social Psychology study.
If you get a chance check out the full paper. It’s pretty interesting once you start getting into the details, especially when neutral/transitional parties are factored in https://t.co/JKa7oZzBtU pic.twitter.com/TsMCa13Eju
— Doug Stewart #freesamourai (@realDougStewart) June 24, 2025
The most widely circulated response to Mitchell’s post linked the full fifteen page study from the British Journal of Social Psychology, which published five different charts, or “heatmaps,” all confirming, based on network modeling data, the same hypothesis that the researchers tendered: that, overwhelmingly, leftists tend to engage in “groupthink,” while members of the political right tend to think independently.
The psychological study posited that personal attitudes shape political identities. The researchers formed clusters of left-wing participants and right-wing participants within the study. Then, the researchers surveyed the extreme degree to which the participants held their views on key political issues.
According to the British Journal of Social Psychology:
“A visual inspection of the network reveals two attitude clusters. To understand whether partisanship was a latent factor overlaying the two clusters, we generated a heatmap by correlating the selection of each node with participants’ self-reported partisan identification. As shown in Figure 2b, the cluster reflecting the Democrat belief-system almost exclusively contained extreme attitudes as indicated by strong disagreement with each of the eight political issues. Conversely, the cluster reflecting the Republican belief-system contained a wider range of attitude responses ranging from mild disagreement to maximum agreement.”
The British Journal of Social Psychology study was highly conclusive.
In the United States, ever since President Trump became the Republican nominee for president in 2016, Americans have witnessed and endured the ever-changing, yet always pitifully simplistic, rhetoric of the political left.
In lockstep, the left first claimed that President Trump must be disqualified from seeking the office of president, despite the United States boasting the world’s most advanced constitutional republic in history, capable of accommodating any freely and fairly elected leader.
Then, the left claimed that President Trump must be impeached as president, and convicted, for allegedly colluding with Russia in the 2016 election, despite Democrats presenting no evidence of President Trump committing a crime.
In 2019, after President Trump was exonerated with regard to Russia, Democrats demanded that President Trump be removed from office for holding a private phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. During the phone call, President Trump rightfully urged Ukraine to re-open its investigation into the Biden family’s foreign influence and corruption.
With Hunter Biden evidently being the recipient of over $3 million from Burisma Holdings – a nefarious, former Ukranian natural gas company – astoundingly, Joe Biden himself bragged about issuing a quid pro quo to Ukraine while Vice President: the US would promise to withhold $1 billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, unless, and until, Ukraine fired its Prosecutor General investigating the corruption of Burisma Holdings.
Even after the US Senate acquitted President Trump regarding his private phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, certain left-wing political leaders, civilians, and the Deep State acted most maliciously preceding, and in the aftermath of, the 2020 election.
From 2020-2022, left-wing political leaders and civilians forced masks upon healthy children, at all hours of the day, punishing, and suspending from school, those children who gasped for air, refusing to comply.
Left-wing political leaders then banned, and arrested civilians, who gathered at churches for worship, and to attend weddings and funerals.
Simultaneously, left-wing leaders such as Joe Biden held haywire political rallies in which adults sat ten feet apart within individual circles taped to the ground, wearing masks, outdoors.
In the final weeks leading up to the 2020 election, Deep State intelligence operatives malevolently conspired with the Mainstream Media and Democrat Party to label the mere existence of Hunter Biden’s blatantly incriminating laptop as “Russian disinformation.” According to polling, this high-strung disinformation campaign demonstrably swayed voters in the 2020 election.
In 2021, the Deep State, Mainstream Media, and Democrat Party framed President Trump as “inciting an insurrection,” simply for attempting to peacefully and lawfully contest an election that employed numerous unprecedented, unlawful, and unverifiable voting procedures.
Once President Trump was again acquitted by the US Senate, millions of patriots remained de-platformed from social media merely for voicing their opinions on the 2020 presidential election.
Although struck down by the US Supreme Court, the Biden administration then attempted to institute a national vaccine mandate, forcing all working Americans to take indefinite doses of an experimental vaccine.
Finally, the Department of Justice, along with various rogue District Attorneys under the Biden administration, pursued extreme measures of lawfare, attempting to imprison President Trump.
The average left-wing American, to be sure, could not explain, or so much as name, the charges levied against President Trump by the Biden administration. Yet, according to AP polling from July, 2024, 78% of Democrats believed that President Trump should serve prison time.
Conclusively, the modern American political left has demonstrated, as evidenced by the British Journal of Social Psychology study, that left-wing ideology remains flatlined, in spite of all change in the political arena.
When Americans challenge left-wing leaders in power, the left responds, in turn, by silencing and imprisoning Americans. Modern left-wing political leaders have proven to neither cherish our sacred individual liberties, nor prioritize equal justice under the law.
When will the American left learn to tolerate and respect differences of opinion?
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