There's a clear difference.

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[u/CaterpillarJungleGym]

Makes sense. Psychologically speaking. It's a lot of if/then rationalizing. They have steadfast heirarchies and rules but certain things can not confirm and instead of a gray area, it gets immediately classified within the hierarchy.

Edit: I wonder if there are certain mental disorders related to hyper-rigidity of societal structure and roles. Though I guess those folks would never have been sent to an institution before like 20 years.

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From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Rational conservatives maintain that a community with a hierarchy of authority is most conducive to human well-being.

Confucius is another possible precursor. His concern with the breakdown of contemporary political institutions led to a cautious, conservative political outlook; his stress on authority and hierarchy prefigures central conservative themes.

With the Enlightenment, the natural order or social hierarchy, previously largely accepted, was questioned.

Western conservatism is a product from the Age of Enlightenment -- specifically, a Counter-Enlightenment, a reactionary challenge to the concepts of Humanism. Its philosophers inherently reject[ed] a society governed by logic and reason, human rights and dignity, science and democracy, as its ideology solely appeal to the authority of traditionally established hierarchies.

The very founder of modern Western conservatism insist[ed] with brutal frankness that “illusions” and “prejudices” are socially necessary, today's conservatives have coined the term "alternative facts"; and while I don't have any studies concerning mental disorders per se, I do have studies that show that [search for] truth and intelligence is inversely correlated with conservative ideology.

• Belief in Fake News is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking
• Religion and Fake News: Faith-Based Alternative Information Ecosystems in the US and Europe (full article)
• Intelligence is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs. (full article)
• Results confirm that conservatives have lower sensitivity than liberals, performing worse at distinguishing truths and falsehoods
• Conservatives are less truth-discerning than liberals, but also less affected by the congruence of news.
• Across five operationalizations of impaired deliberative thought, hierarchy endorsement increased and egalitarianism receded.
• Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated.