My best friend for 50 years has caught the virus: he's gone full MAGAT.

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10. Those "hot buttons" all right. Wired to the gut, not the brain.

We're all vulnerable to various degrees. Interestingly, though, scientists have discovered that liberal- and conservative-wired brains process information in different order/directions.

Unlike liberal brains, conservatives send new input first for emotional and potential fight or fright response, before continuing on for cognitive evaluation. That may have been a higher functioning when our position in the food chain wasn't so secure, but these days a disastrous weakness exploited by those preying on our minds.