The Science is Settled

Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views

Weaker men more likely to support welfare state and wealth redistribution

Link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in our ancestors

Strength was a proxy for ability to defend or acquire resources

There is no link between women's physical strength and political views

By Emma Innes

PUBLISHED:05:21 EST, 16 May 2013| UPDATED:05:21 EST, 16 May 2013

Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study.

Researchers discovered political motivations may have evolutionary links to physical strength.

Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to the research.

The principal investigators - psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen, of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Daniel Sznycer, of the University of California in the U.S., believe that the link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to influence behaviour today.

Professor Petersen said: ‘While many think of politics as a modern phenomenon, it has - in a sense - always been with our species.’

In the days of our early ancestors, decisions about the distribution of resources were not made in courthouses or legislative offices, but through shows of strength.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2325414/Men-physically-strong-likely-right-wing-political-views.html

This is just a public service to warn liberals to stay away from the gym!

Makes sense to me. People who are strong and think they can do it on their own don't feel the need for the collective and might even despise those who can't do it on thier own, pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Conversly, the weak see the advantages in working together, sharing not only muscles but experience and adding more brains to the problem. Group projects.

I think it's a pretty broad brush theory, but in my personal experience, it hits the nail on the head. In fact, the liberal women I know may not be as physically strong as the liberal men I know, but they seem to have stronger and more assertive personalities. And if I campare and contrast the liberal men I know to conservative men, there is no comparison... the conservatives seem to be more interested in doing heavy home projects themselves while my liberal buddies more often pay someone else. But that's just my world.