A new study pointed out below could explain why all Democrats stick together and Republicans don’t. The diversity of thought is on the right. This post was shared by Temple University Professor Shell and it went viral. He’s a geographer and would like to see his work go viral as opposed to political posts that take on a life of their own. However, this went viral because it is so true.
No one needs a study to figure this out.
“Democrats (more than Republicans) tightly centre their belief-system around a set of positions at the extremes of these particular items, implying that people who deviate from these positions are likely to be considered as outgroup members,” according to a study from the British Journal of Social Psychology is making the rounds on social media.
“It is possible that holding extreme (and thus unnegotiable) attitudes on important social-political issues has become increasingly identity defining for Democrats,” the authors speculate.

As Dr. Shell said, when a post goes viral, it’s no longer his. That’s right. It’s mine now.
How did this happen? pic.twitter.com/vSzXIix2Tb
— Jacob Shell (@JacobAShell) June 11, 2025
FWIW here is how the study authors phrase their core finding. They do not literally say, verbatim “although liberals pride themselves…”. I am not sure who that verbiage traces to, tho the verbiage seems to me to accurately translate the study’s main finding into laymans terms. pic.twitter.com/yadsqDJkAU
— Jacob Shell (@JacobAShell) June 12, 2025
It does seem to be identity defining. Democrats are all in lock-goose-step now. They are anti-gun, anti-unborn babies, pro-war, anti- free speech, pro-censorship and want to label everything they don’t want to hear as hate speech. Democrats are pro-open borders without assimilation or vetting because Kumbaya and we are the world. Radical Islamists are peaceful and Catholics are domestic terrorists but when do Catholics as a group behead people, burn Teslas, hurt Jewish college kids? The Party of Women wants men in their private spaces and on their sports teams and the financially generous party of leftists wants to spend everyone else’s money. Lest we forget, they love criminals and don’t give a hoot about their victims. Let’s not forget their rejection of meritocracy and their dehumanization of white people.
They hold that identity to a person.
Here is more from Dr. Shell:
This is also a phenomenon I noticed yrs ago when comparing prestigious universities or prestigious grant foundations: they all gravitated around the same monolithic One Opinion. There isn’t even room for, like, Yale to be the place where avg planetary temperature is considered to be the more important environmentalist concern than local animal conservation, but Cornell is the place where local animal conservation is considered more important than avg planetary temperature; there isn’t room for the Ford Foundation to be the grant org where intersectionality is considered more valid than class-first analysis but at the Rockefeller Foundation or NSF class-first is considered better than intersectionality. There isnt that one elite flagship public uni where they think trans might indeed have something to do with social media psychology. Instead, just: The One Opinion. https://x.com/olivertraldi/s/olivertraldi/status/1933203562516857209
The link to Oliver Traldi is from a philosopher professor who aggressively protects his account. However, he seems to be a wokester.
And he adds:
It’s good to pressure the left to loosen up a bit. They play a positive cultural role, driving experimentation across many fields, when open-minded and not puritanical.
They need to loosen up more than a bit. They’ve gone crazy and let crazies tell them what to think and do.
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I hope more totalitarian anti-American democrats, redundant, are cleansed from Earth like those commie Minnesota filth.
The Left has always trumpeted that diversity is our greatest strength, but in fact it’s not ours, it’s theirs as it gives them so many more ways to divide us all against each other.
What is funny is that ever since Trump won the election last November, I see leftists on Facebook calling Trump supporters ” members of a cult”
They love to throw that at us.
Could they be more blind of what they are ?
Could they be more oblivious to reality ?
Could they be more brainwashed ?
I consider the average leftists to be a defective person.
It’s transference, isn’t it?
Exactly !
Most of them are in a sort of neurosis but the craziest ones are in a deep psychosis
Transference is common in both
It is amazing the intensity of people’s delusions. Something is right in front of them, but they remain blind to it. I think Leftists are not functioning with a full deck.
Leftists are also quite evil. Many of them are likely possessed by demons.