The Psychological Underpinnings of U.S. Politics

Sci-fi great Robert Heinlein has put his finger on something that may help us understand how it was possible for the Republican party in the United States to squirt so far and so fast to the ultra-right.  Does all this racism, hate, exclusion, cruelty, lying, cheating, and denial of science make any rational sense?  Can arguing against these people be effective?  Of course not.

But as Heinlein put it, all these positions appeal to their “prejudices.”