yet more brain studies and politics

LMAO.... yeah.... 'courage' is less in conservatives, that is why the military so predominantly votes for Dems. It is also why so many who cling to the government to take care of them consistently vote Rep.
 
If these studies claim someone is born a certain way or wired a certain way why do so many people change their political affiliations during their lifetime?
 
Superfreak said:
LMAO.... yeah.... 'courage' is less in conservatives, that is why the military so predominantly votes for Dems. It is also why so many who cling to the government to take care of them consistently vote Rep.
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Oh please dude...there's this thing called common sense...you should try using it sometime, maybe you'll be able to observe the obvious.

The number one reason why people are conservative is that they are AFRAID of change.
 
1. Courage isn't the measure of fear, it is the willingness to take the risk despite fear.
2. Fear is largely an attribute of imagination, those with greater imagination will find themselves more afraid of things than those with simpler imaginations.
3. Imagination and a new approach to ideas is what creates progress.
4. I'm pretty much willing to accept that I have a greater imagination and stronger courage than liberals, that's probably the reason why I'm willing to take on the risk that comes with less government "help"...

So, Desh, maybe your simplified imagination is something you believe you should be proud of but I disagree.
 
tinfoil said:
liberals are so stupid they believe a study of 90 people can lead to scientific discoveries.
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Would you feel better if 88 different psychological studies conducted between 1958 and 2002 that involved 22,818 people from 12 different countries said the SAME thing?

Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition.pdf

And then there's this study by Jack and the late Jeanne Block

"All people are born alike—except Republicans and Democrats," quipped Groucho Marx, and in fact it turns out that personality differences between liberals and conservatives are evident in early childhood. In 1969, Berkeley professors Jack and Jeanne Block embarked on a study of childhood personality, asking nursery school teachers to rate children's temperaments. They weren't even thinking about political orientation.

Twenty years later, they decided to compare the subjects' childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults. They found arresting patterns. As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive, and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative politics.
Psychology Today

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898)
 
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