This one is really waaaay too funny, and will definitely require all drinking vessels, flammables, and sharp objects be safely stowed. Posted on 01/19/2007 3:59:07 PM PST by lowbridge
Posted by Noel Sheppard on January 19, 2007 - 10:07.
This one is really waaaay too funny, and will definitely require all drinking vessels, flammables, and sharp objects be safely stowed.
Psychology Today magazine has a long study published in its January/February issue about the differing mindsets and personalities of conservatives and liberals. Who do you think the report praised, and who did it slam? Which ideological group was perceived as smarter, and which was considered more insecure?
If you’re having a hard time answering these questions, read this (emphasis mine throughout). However, please fasten your seatbelts, for you are about to be greatly insulted by one of America's leading psychology periodicals:
Liberals have more books, and their books cover a greater variety of topics. And that's just a start. Multiple studies find that liberals are more optimistic. Conservatives are more likely to be religious. Liberals are more likely to like classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music. Liberals are more likely to enjoy abstract art. Conservative men are more likely than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainment like TV and talk radio. Liberal men like romantic comedies more than conservative men. Liberal women are more likely than conservative women to enjoy books, poetry, writing in a diary, acting, and playing musical instruments.
Pretty funny stuff, right? But it gets better, although you might have to find a more intelligent liberal to explain it to you:
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.
I’m not kidding. Check the link, through some water on your face, and come back here because there’s more:
The researchers—John Jost of NYU, Arie Kruglanski of the University of Maryland, and Jack Glaser and Frank Sulloway of Berkeley—found that conservatives have a greater desire to reach a decision quickly and stick to it, and are higher on conscientiousness, which includes neatness, orderliness, duty, and rule-following. Liberals are higher on openness, which includes intellectual curiosity, excitement-seeking, novelty, creativity for its own sake, and a craving for stimulation like travel, color, art, music, and literature.
The study's authors also concluded that conservatives have less tolerance for ambiguity, a trait they say is exemplified when George Bush says things like, "Look, my job isn't to try to nuance. My job is to tell people what I think," and "I'm the decider." Those who think the world is highly dangerous and those with the greatest fear of death are the most likely to be conservative.
Liberals, on the other hand, are "more likely to see gray areas and reconcile seemingly conflicting information," says Jost. As a result, liberals like John Kerry, who see many sides to every issue, are portrayed as flip-floppers. "Whatever the cause, Bush and Kerry exemplify the cognitive styles we see in the research," says Jack Glaser, one of the study's authors, "Bush in appearing more rigid in his thinking and intolerant of uncertainty and ambiguity, and Kerry in appearing more open to ambiguity and to considering alternative positions."
Amazing. But there was more:
That's why the more educated people are, the more liberal they become—but only to a point. Once people begin pursuing certain types of graduate degrees, the curve flattens. Business students, for instance, become more conservative in their views toward minorities. As they become more established, doctors and lawyers tend to protect their economic interests by moving to the right. The findings demonstrate that conservative conversions are fueled not only by fear, but by other factors as well. And if the November election was any indicator, the pendulum that swung so forcefully to the right after 9/11 may be swinging back.
Incredible. Well, that’s all I have to say on this issue, for I have to go protect my economic interests. Have a nice day.
Noel Sheppard is projecting his own insecurities onto a target he feels threatens him.
That will be $5000.
Beats me. It seems I got a brain and a penis, but only enough blood to run one at a time.
Liberals are more likely to enjoy abstract art.
It's the drugs.
That sounds like the cover of those magazines at the checkout of the supermarket with stuff on the cover like;
"How to find out what he REALLY thinks!"
"Super Sex Secrets that will Drive Him WILD!"
"Have the Buns and Tummy You Want Right NOW!"
"30 Ways We Trick Ourselves About Love!"
Gee; maybe Psychology Today is nothing more than Glamour or Cosmo with a different cover.
Arie Kruglanski:
John Jost:
Jack Glaser
Frank Sulloway
Nice hitler handlebars.
Note that the article says that liberals have more books, not that they read them! ;-)
Conservatives are defined as resisting change, which is interpreted by the researchers as fearful.
Meanwhile, liberals are defined as embracing change, which is interpreted by them as being accepting.
So the first 20 cavemen who discovered fire were liberals who embraced it with predictiable results. (Mostely ashes.) While the first conservative to do so stepped back and said, "How can I make some clams from this thing?"
Orwell had a word for this. Doublethink. 1984.
"Man, I'm pretty!"
"Liberal women are more likely than conservative women to enjoy books, poetry, writing in a diary, acting, and playing musical instruments."
I know liberal women are more likely to go for a superficial, meaningless roll in the hay.
You might not listen to these quacks, but they have much influence. As far as they are concerned - you are a nazi/fascist because of your "rigid" family ideology, respect for the institution of marriage, law, police etc. etc. You're still looking for a "father figure" because of a frustrated fatherhood, so you keep looking for a leader, etc. etc. They obviously deeply believe this, because so much effort in so many avenues of popular culture, academia, judicial system and government has been expended destroying the family unit and associated institutions.
The Liberals I knew/know have far less books than I have and most of the books they do have, are utter junk!
This sounds like astrology. Substitute leo or aries or cancer and you get the same type of psycho-babble analysis.
Just a few ideas...thought I'd throw 'em out there.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I know liberal women are more likely to go for a superficial, meaningless roll in the hay.
I should've known better than to marry a conservative woman.
Which is why the military, cops and firemen are all birkenstock wearing ponytailed sensitive liberal men.
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