Political ideologies, we are told, are abstract choices. Matters of belief, debate, conviction. But there is a quieter force at work, older than philosophy and deeper than rhetoric: climate. Before we are liberal or conservative, capitalist or socialist—we are animals in an environment. We adapt. We strategize. And over time, we forget that our ideologies might not be arguments, but adaptations. If this is true, then political psychology must widen its scope.