[bruinbirdman]

Right wingers experienced 'more positive
interactions with parents'

[DB]

In other words, lefties are damaged goods...

[DB]

“Liberals are risk prone, are open to new views and ways, value equality and out-group relations, and exhibit high independence and self-reliance.”

What total BS.

Lefties look to government to solve their problems.

Righties look to themselves and family.

[cgbg]

Liberals "value logic"--now there is a howler.

Every liberal I know is an emotional basket case.

[GATOR NAVY]

That ain’t no conservative there.

[Gil4]

“Does a poor upbringing make you more left wing?”

Any upbringing that leaves you more left wing is a poor upbringing.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Every few years a psychological study comes out that says that the Marxists and Stalinists are original, sophisticated, tolerant free-thinkers while conservatives who believe in personal freedom and appreciate the complexity of a market economy are simple-minded authoritarians. Yawn.

[Lancey Howard]

Why would working mothers breed parasites and goofballs?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Liberals are risk prone, are open to new views and ways, value equality and out-group relations, and exhibit high independence and self-reliance."

ROTFLMAOSTC! Yeah, right!

I grew up dirt poor, in a disfunctional family where my dad fought mental illness most of his life. I turned out slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun.

[philetus]

Is your name to blame for unhappiness?

Does a poor upbringing make you more left wing?

Is a lefty in his right mind?

[cripplecreek]

I grew up poor in a two income household until my parents divorced at 13 and then we got even poorer. Conservatism grew within me, not from without.

[Gideon Reader]

What a pile of crap this study is.
When I was a child, in the late 1930's my father earned roughly $3.00 a week to feed the entire family. Lots of times we had no electric light and rent was a very troubling thing.
We lived at the edge of economic disaster and ate mashed potatoes as the main component of most meals. Meat was not something I recall in my early days.
We grew most of our veggies. (this in New York City tenement backyard)
Until the beginning of WWII there was little or no work available that was not requiring physical challenges to a partially disabled adult male.
It could have been worse. We could have been living in Europe. Then the subject would have been moot. G.Reader would have been a puff of smoke in a Polish sky.

We survived. Things got better. Three of the children went to college/university. Two became professionals. One a pretty decent Lawman. One a successful talent manager.
Our parents were taken care of in their later years, and all of the children are freeholders or homeowners. All of our children went to college/university.
All of us are conservative, very conservative or VERY VERY conservative politically.

Some people do not understand exactly what deprivation is.
The author of this study is surely one of them.

[randita]

Generations of welfare families will be decidedly left wing, but does that have more to do with their financial circumstances or with the moral, spiritual and ethical bankruptcy that got them where they are in the first place?

[RavenATB]

It’s too bad these researchers didn’t look into the link between children raised in the Democrat/liberal home environment and criminal activity. If they had, I think they’d have seen some truly shocking statistics.

[JaguarXKE]

conservatives...prefer social inequality...

What utter bs. A more correct statement: "liberals 'perceive' that conservatives prefer social inequality."

[Texas Jack]

According to Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D., author of "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness" liberals aren't fully developed adults. They lack some of the traits that adults demonstrate in their lives. He links the cause to disruptive childhoods, especially between the mother and the child before the age of two.

This is a most informative book. I highly recommend it. In it you learn exactly why Rosie's writer would deface pictures of Elizabeth Hasselbeck.

[hosepipe]

[.. Does a poor upbringing make you more left wing? ..]

NAH!.. graduating from an Ivy League College will though..
America has been creating Moonbat left wingers for decades.. at an advanced rate..

[HawaiianGecko]

[Liberals are] skeptical of, or cynical about familiar and traditional ideology; open to new experiences; individualistic and uncompromising, pursuing a place in the world on personal terms; private; disobedient, even rebellious rule-breakers; sensation seekers and pleasure seekers, including in the frequency and diversity of sexual experiences; socially and economically egalitarian; and risk prone; furthermore, they value diversity, imagination, intellectualism, logic, and scientific progress.

The exact pattern of behavior exhibited by criminals and losers.  They value imagination because they live in a fantasy world, intellectualism & logic because they don't have it, and scientific progress because they are looking for quick fixes for their problems.

[weezel]

Self made people are much more likely to be conservative.

[therut]

I grew up poor. The fact that my mom and Dad did everthing they could to provide for us WITHOUT any .gov help made me a conservative. My parents were wonderful. If LBJ had been around earlier it would have ended up a sad story.

[therut]

SELF-Reliance and LIBERAL do not go together.