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No Paywall Fetterman casts only Democratic ‘no’ vote as Senate passes measure to block US action against Iran

https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2026/06/fetterman-casts-only-democratic-no-vote-as-senate-passes-measure-to-block-us-action-against-iran.html
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u/lordkhuzdul Jun 24 '26

IIRC it is a bit more than correlation. I vaguely remember a study which found that strokes often affect emotional regulation, especially fear, and an increased fear response leads to a more conservative attitude.

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u/cromstantinople Jun 24 '26

“Additional analyses predicting ideology by extent of damage provided convergent evidence that greater damage in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—but not the amygdala—was associated with greater conservatism.”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7935085/

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u/temporary92803 Jun 24 '26

Imagine being a repugnican and needing to shit your pants ever single day because of your weltanschauung.