"In this commentary we explain how MFT allows us to reject equipotentiality in response to both questions yet still understand the substantial degree of “loose- ness” between ideologies (or political parties) and issue positions across the nations and historical eras documented in the articles cited by the editors. The key idea, as we said in our target article, is that moral foundations are just foundations; there is always a great deal of cultural construction necessary to connect specific issues, framed in culturally and historically variable ways, to the specific moral intuitions of any one individual. Nevertheless, the moral foundations can help explain why equipotentiality does not apply to political ideology. " (2009)
