“OK, neuroscientists, explain this: “Why are there communists and socialists and how can they think those systems lead to the betterment of mankind, all empirical evidence to the contrary?”
Has to do with right vs left hemisphere. Socialists think emotionally, not logically. It’s the feeling of the emotional right brain!
Yes. The Limbic area is embedded “emotions”—original “Fight/flight” instinct of human beings. It is why babies are severely damaged by neglect and abuse in infancy/young childhood because of the inability to be autonomous when stress/danger/need hits (Fight/Flight impulse).
They can’t “run” and “escape” evil or help themselves because they are totally dependent, so they embed the emotions and associate it with men/women/ events-—whatever. That fear and stress will occur in adulthood and affect all relationships if not resolved. When deeply embedded in early childhood, it is hard to discern the cause.
Socialist/Marxists (hard core ones) are literally brainwashed from birth. Useful idiots are just ignorant and are trained and conditioned to believe what they are told (group thinkers which is always emotionally driven). Without knowledge, people can’t “know” anything.
Emotions are embedded with concepts so they “feel” something is right—because they are never taught in a Socratic/Euclid manner (philosophical/Classical) . They are programmed when little to feel that Christianity/Capitalism is evil/bigoted and stupid etc.
It is Wundtian psychology that is used to train the Marxists and the masses so the Limbic area is the enhanced part, and far more developed (so Reason can never control the emotion), and the rational part is not developed as it would be with Classical Education.