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

UCBerkely News ^ | 22 July 2003 | Kathleen Maclay

[Fred]

Be sure to email your comments on this so called study to:

Comments? E-mail newscenter@pa.urel.berkeley.edu

[Ramius]

This reads like a C-minus Freshman paper. Please, somebody tell me this wasn't actually written by professors.

[Drango]

From our perspective...

From my perspective, you need to back off the weed.

[Hootowl]

The major problem with this is that Hitler and Mussolini were leftists, not conservatives. They were (dare I say it?) SOCIALISTS!!!!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Would you expect any more from Bezerkly professors?

[Texas_Jarhead]

President Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh did not and do not preach 'a return to an idealized past'. Rather they talk of a real, historical past that they and many others have lived through.

[El Conservador]

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

Hmmm, it seems like they have WAY TOO MUCH time in their hands.

[NormsRevenge]

While most people resist change, Glaser said, liberals appear to have a higher tolerance for change than conservative do.

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Hey LIebrals..when UN trucks pull up to your doorsteps and ask you to get aboard the transports for a ride to your new homes in the concentration camps, just accept it OK? Remeber.. It's just change.

What bullpucky!

To even mention Stalin in the same sentence as Reagan is enough reason in my book to revoke any monies be allocated to support any of these buttheads studies of anything, much less conservatism.

This is just another piece of evidence of how low our institutions have sunk.

[GranpaVet]

Psycho babble. But fun to read. Some useful pointers.

[RightWinger]

What a bunch of BS.

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm? LIBERAL professors!

[Fzob]

.... a second key dimension of conservatism - an endorsement of inequality, a view reflected in the Indian caste system, South African apartheid and the conservative, segregationist politics of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-South S.C.).

Disparate conservatives share a resistance to change and acceptance of inequality, the authors said. Hitler, Mussolini, and former President Ronald Reagan were individuals, but all were right-wing conservatives because they preached a return to an idealized past and condoned inequality in some form. Talk host Rush Limbaugh can be described the same way.,

What a load of ..... sophistry. How does endorsement and acceptance of inequality get to be equivalent.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

* Fear and aggression
* Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
* Uncertainty avoidance
* Need for cognitive closure
* Terror management

In other words, conservatives long for order and civilization.

Would make sense since the left works to tear down civilization and longs for anarchy.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Bill Clinton's party is trying to analyze Conservatives?
It's like the patients trying to run the asylum.

[Keith in Iowa]

The Bullfighter Analysis says the following about this article, "Diagnosis: You like to hear yourself write. Despairing of the thought of bringing a sentence to a close with something as demeaningly ordinary as a simple period, you shower readers with gratuitous, interminable and often weighty if not impossibly labyrinthine prose. Meaning lingers, albeit awash in a thick tide of metaphor and exposition that threatens to drown the writer's message. Seek help."

[glaux]

"Conservatives don't feel the need to jump through complex, intellectual hoops in order to understand or justify some of their positions..."

No, conservatives go through complex intellectual machinations and ultimately arrive well-reasoned conclusions. These are borne out of a knowledge of the facts and allow for effective decision making.
Liberals "jump through hoops" over the parts that confuse them and substitute decision making with feckless rumination.

[Ramius]

Perfect.

[dasboot]

Had to do an Onion check.

Meta-statistical analysis? Dufi.

[sd-joe]

What do amoeba and Berkely professors have in common - equivalent brains.

>> "segregationist politics of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-South S.C.)"

He was a democrat when he held segregationist views.

If they can't even get the little stuff right ....

[donmeaker]

The liberal jerks still have no clue what it means to be conservative. Hitler was a national Socialist. that puts him right up against the Communists. FDR also sounds like one of those people who once gained power and refused to quit. If he hadn't died, he would still be running.

It was the Democrats, not the republicans who supported Jim Crow. It is the liberal wing of the court that supported continued racism in michigan college admissions.

I am also amused at how they say that conservatives feel the need to use their brains. What does that say about liberals, the party of the frontal lobotomy.