Research shows conservatives are nicer

The Daily Mail (Great Britain) ^ | 6/15/08 | Peter Schweizer

[avoiceinwilderness]

Don't listen to the liberals - Right-wingers really are nicer people, latest research shows

George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. 'One sometimes gets the impression,' he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, 'that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, nature-cure quack, pacifist and feminist in England'.

Orwell was making an observation. But today a whole body of academic research shows he was correct: your politics influence the manner in which you live your life. And the news is not so good for those on the political Left.

[MichiganConservative]

Is it that the politics influence the life or the life influences the politics? I believe there is correlation, but I think the causation is from life to politics.

[Sherman Logan]

I’m a right wing fruit-juice drinker, sandal-wearer and sex-maniac.

Where did I go wrong?

Anyway, it’s not the fruit-juice drinkers who are weirdos, it the vegetable juice drinkers.

[Vince Ferrer]

your politics influence the manner in which you live your life.

I would reverse this. First come your wants in how you want to live your life, then you go find a political philosophy that will justify and nurture it.

[goldstategop]

George Orwell was always prescient. I have a happy outlook on life and I don't have much to complain about. If it was up to me, I'd always leave things the way they were - if it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's my philosophy of life.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Free State Four]

Anyway, it’s not the fruit-juice drinkers who are weirdos, it the vegetable juice drinkers.

Swallow that insult, you fruit-drinking weirdo!

Signed, V-8

[MichiganConservative]

You don't need to explain that to Doug Urbanski, the former business manager for Left-wing firebrand and documentary-maker Michael Moore. 'He [Moore] is more money-obsessed than anyone I have known - and that's saying a lot,' claims Urbanski.

No, really. The left always wants money for themselves, but want to deny it to you. Just like with other things. For instance, they want to live, but want you to kill yourself for the earth.

[mountn man]

Many on the Left apparently believe that espousing liberal ideals is a 'get out of jail free' card that inoculates them from the evils of the money culture.

Look at Obama's tax returns.

Do as I say, not as I do.

For someone who is "supposed" to be so much for the poor, his tax returns don't show much charitable giving.

[singfreedom]

Weaver's “Ideas have consequences”, has always been a personal favorite of mine. It goes hand in hand with “As a man thinks, so is he”.

[singfreedom]

Another Orwellian thought: “Some are more equal than others”. (I'm not sure that's exact, but the sentiment is correct.) Monied leftists see themselves as the elite, the pigs if you will, in their anticipated socialist society.

[Crazieman]

Amazing. Decades ago, Orwell had their number already. It all came to fruition.

[fightinJAG]

I think you’re right on this. Your values determine which political philosophy you’re drawn to.

[fightinJAG]

Remember algore’s charitable giving? Like $300 one year.

[Milhous]

The notion of leftists outsourcing their obligations appears yet again.

The full-scale embrace of the importance of self-awareness, self-discovery and being 'true' to oneself, along with the idea that the State should care for the less fortunate, has created a swathe of Left-wing people who want to outsource their obligations to others.

[Chode]

hummm lets see... this report says We are Nicer, the one last week said We are More HONEST, and the one a couple weeks ago said We are Happier with our lives and outlook on live with less stress/anger/resentment than the RATS.

anybody see a pattern here???

[Windcatcher]

Hmmm, so if I raise my donation by another $51 I could surpass him. But then again, it goes with my bicycling 150 miles...I wonder if Al does that.

[Kickass Conservative]

While Dick Cheney gave Eight Million Dollars to charity.

(And Bill Clinton gave his “used” undies)...

[irv]

To be fair, my tax returns don’t show much charitable giving, either. Or even any.

That’s because I don’t see what business it is of the government’s, not because I don’t give.

[fella]

First come your wants in how you want to live your life, then you go find a political philosophy that will justify and nurture it.

Or you find a political group that is willing to demagogue and pettifog to your proclivities while it advances it's true agenda that is not in your best interests.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!