Do Humans Have A Political Gene?

What information is stored in this miracle? Could our political outlook filter be genetically inherited?

It is a well known fact that intelligence is a genetic, inherited trait. That it is a dominant allele, I am inferring due our species survival and progress, because as the turn-out of eligible voters approaches and surpasses 80% , the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) of p^2, 2pq, q^2, where p is the frequency of the major allele, comes to mind. The optimum ratio of a dominant desirable trait (allele) in a free breeding population is 80%.

Bud Oracle

Date Posted: 04/24/08

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Sometime when something walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck, it might be important to point that out to others no matter how embarrassing that might become. Although today most science comes from large institutions, historically science has often come from left field. A valid observation is a valid observation, no matter who makes it, or what state of mind they were in. You be the judge.

Do humans have a political gene? I believe that we revert to a basic left/right filter if we are carriers of these predisposed genetic factors;

Non-political if we are of mixed traits, when logic and intelligent;

Discussions are discarded in our North American nonsensical, mudslinging politics;

For me, Gregor Mendel reflects the epitome of an observer/experimenter. On his chart stands all of the science of modern genetics.

It occurred to me that if there was any genetic component to human political alignment then it should be easy to discover by direct observation of the voting results.

If one asks a population a political question (samples a gene pool by voting), then something resembling Mendel's R chart might be seen in the results if this were true.

I took the USA Presidential elections as an example, because it has basically a right and left system.

The last few American Presidential elections exactly reflect Mendel's chart, in my view. 25% voted Republican, 25% voted Democratic, and 50% were of mixed left/right variance, and didn't vote. In fact the average ratio of the of the last 12 Presidential election outcomes, if you discard the high and low results is: A split of 6/ 4 (Rep to Dem) wins RR(25.78)+rr(24.22)+Rr(49.93)=100%
This situation is repeated throughout the world whenever a free vote occurs, in varying degrees, depending on a society's level of sophistication, or lack thereof. I believe that when a society is confused it reverts back to its inherited instincts and the voting results are a confirmation of my belief.

In the two candidate, run-off, Presidential elections of France, the turn-out is remarkably high compared to the US.