[rightinthemiddle]

How to spot a "baby liberal":

Easy. Any Liberals is a baby.

[Termite_Commander]

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[Reactionary]

I get it: Confident and wonderful liberal children grow up to rely on the Nanny State to make the world a tolerable place to live, and whining conservative kids grow up thinking that individual initiative is key.

Yeah. It makes sense. In Idiot Liberal Land, that is.

[CharlesWayneCT]

That's interesting. The kids who were picked on, who had to overcome adversity, became republicans.

The popular self-confident kids, who had everything handed to them, became liberals.

[Millee]

self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

Would these be the same self-reliant people who rely on the government to help them with every aspect of their lives??? Horse pucky.

[dirtboy]

The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

In other words, the kids who used brute force to beat lunch money out of law-abiding kids are now liberals using the force of government to force tax money from law-abiding working stiffs.

Makes sense to me.

[LaineyDee]

I believe this is called "projection". *chuckle*

[Cementjungle]

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years.

If I grew up in Berkely I would probably be insane by now with all those moonbats around me.

[Rick_Michael]

yeah, so!?

[JOAT]

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

Easy to explain. Growing up in the 'Berkeley area' indicates that the area is infested with Liberals. The conservative kids accurately understood even at a young age that the environment was hostile to their families. This was interpreted by the wacko lefties as 'whiny and insecure.'

Simple really.

[rhombus]

Talk about profiling... this is longitudinal profiling.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

[Billthedrill]

How to spot a liberal baby - bawling, soiled diapers, and 27 years old.

[trimom]

Another theory is that most of the kids who grew up to be conservative were at home, being raised by their parents instead of given over to day care sites DISGUISED as nursery schools.

[Centurion2000]

That defies all logic considering the liberals are the party of dependence. Of course this is a liberal article so logic has nothing to do with it.

Self reliant people do not need or want government interfering with their lives.

[Thrusher]

The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants...

Considering 80% of teachers and assistants seem to be liberals, it isn't very surprising that they would have negative things to say about children with conservative personalities.

[Yaelle]

The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity.

The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests.

They may not have started with political biases but they sure ended up with them. Conservatives may see a point to tradition. And what ambiguity are they uncomfortable with? Political correctness? Transgendered people? Saying one thing while doing another? We conservatives call that hypocrisy, not ambiguity.

And those confident, non-conforming liberals? Their wide interests can all be found in the Calendar section of any mainstream newspaper, and their nonconformity is as predictable as a sea of army uniforms. They are all "nontraditional" sheep. They are confident they are correct about everything because they are told so in all mainstream publications and shows.

[staytrue]

Block admits in his paper that liberal Berkeley is not representative of the whole country.

The scientist admits to a flawed study.

[Tired of Taxes]

Very biased wording used in that article.

But then it says:

For conservatives whose feelings are still hurt, there is a more flattering way for them to look at the results. Even if they really did tend to be insecure complainers as kids, they might simply have recognized that the world is a scary, unfair place.

Their grown-up conclusion that the safest thing is to stick to tradition could well be the right one. As for their "rigidity," maybe that's just moral certainty.

The grown-up liberal men, on the other hand, with their introspection and recognition of complexity in the world, could be seen as self-indulgent and ineffectual.

[gidget7]

Ultra Mega Projection Barf alert is more like it!!