UC BERKELEY STUDY - What do Hitler, Mussolini, Reagan and Rush Limbaugh Have in common....

UCBerkely News ^ | 22 July 2003 | Kathleen Maclay

[Lee'sGhost]

"So, they're trying to make conservatism look like a mental disorder???"

Uhmmmm, isn't that what the way it worked in the USSR? If you speak against communism you must be mentally ill, so off to Siberia you go.

Yup, sounds like Berkley.

[Lee'sGhost]

You catch this?

Terror management


Like that's a bad thing?

[Lee'sGhost]

* Need for cognitive closure: Here's a news flash: Al Gore lost the 2000 election. Time to "move on."


Good one!

[lowbridge]

bump

[Clint N. Suhks]

"Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.

Now the APA is trying to suggest that Conservatism is disorder? More proof that the APA has a liberal political agenda, reminiscent of their influence in making homosexuality NOT a disorder. Social construction through pseudo soft science.

[Clint N. Suhks]

The avoidance of uncertainty, for example, as well as the striving for certainty, are particularly tied to one key dimension of conservative thought - the resistance to change or hanging onto the status quo, they said.

YEP! Social experimentation vs. a society proven to work? I’m going with status quo.

[philosofy123]

Therfore, it is a balanced assertion; two right wingers (Rush & Reagan), and two left wingers(Hitler & Mussolini). Who said that Berkeley is not fair? SARCASM!!!

[Clint N. Suhks]

where many people appear to shun and even punish outsiders and those who threaten the status of cherished world views,

YEP! Search the 80-year-old granny and pass on the Saudi national when screening airline passengers because it’s politically correct to turn a blind eye to race. Liberalism is a political system that lacks common sense.

[Clint N. Suhks]

second key dimension of conservatism - an endorsement of inequality, a view reflected in the Indian caste system,

Liberal propagandic B-U-N-K BUNK!

[f.Christian]

"And in 2002, Bush told a British reporter, "Look, my job isn't to nuance."

Liberals and evolutionist waffle everything ... sock puppet politics --- science too !

[lowbridge]

The researchers said that conservative ideologies, like virtually all belief systems, develop in part because they satisfy some psychological needs, but that "does not mean that conservatism is pathological or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false, irrational, or unprincipled."

Oh, well. Thanks alot.

They also stressed that their findings are not judgmental.

Oh, yeah, RIGHT!!!

"In many cases, including mass politics, 'liberal' traits may be liabilities, and being intolerant of ambiguity, high on the need for closure, or low in cognitive complexity might be associated with such generally valued characteristics as personal commitment and unwavering loyalty," the researchers wrote.

Oh, I see. Liberals have the "valued characteristics". The rest of the world....

[ValerieUSA]

The writer is fully prepared to diagnose conservatives with a mental disorder that needs to be treated immediately at a nice safe asylum in Siberia.

[Clint N. Suhks]

one contemporary example is liberals' general endorsement of extending [EXTRA] rights and liberties to disadvantaged minorities such as gays and lesbians, compared to conservatives' opposing position.

Giving chosen behavior special rights and advantages is Fascism, where’s their support for incest, bestiality and consensual pedophilia? Hypocrites ALL!

[SupplySider]

There is some truth to the profile, however today it is the leftists who are the fearful conservatives, trying desperately to hold on to and advance the seventy year plus status quo of socialism. Today's rightists would fit the profile of change-seeking reformers.

[Clint N. Suhks]

…and Berzerkly psy-quacks have in common? Tendency to speak in authoritarian pronouncements.

The APA has been conducting outcome-based research for years, it’s part of their hidden liberal political agenda to change society. The soft sciences and even the AMA are political arms of Liberalism; this attack on Conservatism is just more proof.

Kahonek, you must be so proud.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

I have more contact information for the professors and their bosses here: http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/000699.html#000699

[Aquinasfan]

They also stressed that their findings are not judgmental.

C'mon. This is from The Onion.

[scripter]

Thanks for the ping. Perhaps we should write something about liberalism being a disorder. Oh wait, it is a disorder.

[gaspar]

I have argued numerous times that the U. of California is an operating con game. Berkeley is neither led by the best and brightest or graduates the best and brightest. In fact, the Berkeley faculty is led by an aging mediocrity. I have posed the question before: If you had a responsible job as headhunter would you hire a Berkeley professor? Would you hire a Berkeley graduate? I think not, and this article is just more grist for my mill.

[Sparta]

First of all, I hate the People's Democratik Republik of Kaliforniastan. I hope the damn "State" falls into the ocean. I depise the Commies who populate UC Berkley.

Having said that, let's get to this um.....thesis's points.

* Fear and aggression

Partially right. I don't fear anything or anyone. I want to kill every Ba'athist, Islamist, and Marxist I can find for they're the enemies of my country. I want to execute murderers and rapists because I don't want them to harm another innocent person. Finally, I'm a mean-spirited a$$hole when debating liberal, statist, and pacifist trash because I value my liberty, which two types of trash want to take from me and the latter type wants me to lie down and lose in the name of appeasement. Call it aggressive if you want, call it intense if you like. I'm just passionate when comes to defending the people and the country I love and the values I hold dear.

* Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity

WTF????!!!! I've forgotten what the inside of a church looks like. Reason is the basis of every position I take, not emotion or so-called dogmatism. As for "intolerance of ambiguity", these A-holes at Berkley need to excuse the f**k out of me if I believe in a clearly defined right and wrong. My PC indoctrination at the publik schools didn't quite take.

* Uncertainty avoidance

Again, it all goes back to a clearly defined belief in right and wrong. Something a little socialist prick in Berkley or anywhere else in the Islamic People's Democratik Republik of Kalifornistan doesn't know anything about.

* Need for cognitive closure

So I'm close-minded if I think the theft of 50% of a person's income is wrong? So I'm closed-minded if I think NAMBLA are a bunch of perverted old guys? Again, it goes back to a clearly defined belief in right and wrong.

* Terror management

Yeah I believe in terror management. When a terrorist pops out their ugly jihadist head, I'll be there to put a bullet in it.

Basically, this idiot's point is you're a fascist if you're not a surrender monkey, if you believe in right and wrong, and you actually believe in something other than the power of the Almighty government. Just because the idiots at Berkley want to be a part of Aztlan or the Islamic States of America doesn't mean I'm going to sit back and let them have what they want. This person also shows they don't what a fascist is.

Fascism is just another form of socialism. Fascists allow private property ownership, but will dictate what you can do with that property. For a good example of fascism in America, just read the Democratic Party platform.

One final thing about Kalifornia, I would like to see a comparison of the economies of Kalifornia and North Korea. I think North Korea has more a capitalist economy than Kalifornia.

(Rant over....)