Seeing the 2016 election through Jonathan Haidt's moral foundations theory
The basic premise of “The Righteous Mind” is that liberals, conservatives and libertarians use different moral metrics to judge the veracity and fitness of political candidates and of their world views in general. Their outrage or praise at statements that politicians make depends on how well or badly these statements score on their spectrum of moral values. Haidt’s point is that most of the disagreement on political issues between liberals and conservatives boils down to a subset of six moral ‘foundations’ that they score politics on.
The six moral foundations are: care/harm, liberty/oppression, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion and sanctity/purity. Based on several studies conducted by him and his colleagues, Haidt has concluded that in general, liberals value the first three values disproportionately while conservatives value all six values equally. Thus as an example, liberals get very worked up about the oppression of minorities because it scores very badly on the “care/harm” and “liberty/oppression” metrics, while religious conservatives get very worked up by LGBT rights because it scores very badly on their “sanctity/degradation” and “liberty/oppression” metrics. Libertarians view the liberty/oppression axis as being as overwhelmingly important.
The following chart neatly illustrates these differences:
Haidt also refers to these moral foundations as sacred values, considering how intensely liberals and conservatives often cling to them. Seen through this lens of sacred values, it’s very interesting to look at the Giant Conflagration of 2016 (otherwise known as the 2016 US election). When Trump said all those obnoxious things about Hispanics or women or Muslims, he scored very low on liberals’ main moral values (the three on the left): by insulting certain racial or demographic groups, he was showing that he did not care about them, he was purportedly infringing on their liberties and he was also not being fair to them. As the chart shows, concern for the care and liberties of victims of oppression is liberals’ most sacred value, although it is also valued highly by conservatives. Minorities and women are often thought to fall in this category, and so the violation of this value disqualified Trump in the eyes of liberals right away.
Source: http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2016/11/seeing-2016-election-through-jonathan.html
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