http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml "Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: Fear and aggression Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity Uncertainty avoidance Need for cognitive closure Terror management "From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination," the researchers wrote in an article, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin." You can get the actual journal article here: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/conservatism.html
Liberals have no sense of self responsibility;it is always up to the other person,company,gov't etc to fix their imagined wrongs. Liberals believe in heavy gov't intervention in all forms of society;business, health care, housing, employment.
One can reprint all the stereotypes they want, but look at the facts. 1. Bush is big government. Government spending has grown 18% in three years and we have a record deficit. 2. Bush avoids personal responsibility. He has not owned up to his misleadership on Iraq, and has weaseled out of things. Bush is actually a "liberal." Also, I know a number of the faculty at Berkeley, mostly at Haas School of Business and at Boalt Law School. They are very smart, and rather conservative. How's that for some cognitive dissonance?
I don't think I can possibly go slow enough for you, but I'll try: If you'd responded with a subtle, nuanced argument (I can't help but laugh imagining that), you would've refuted the study by doing what the authors claim conservatives don't do. Instead, you display (tenfold) the tendencies the study attributes to conservatives, thereby confirming the study. Hence the "own goal" comment. Now, you were probably thinking, "what's he talking about? I'm reading things on a computer screen, not playing soccer." See, that's called a "metaphor." A metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another. Here, your attempt to refute an argument but accidently confirming it instead is compared to a soccer player (say, Jeff Agoos) putting the ball past his own goalkeeper into the net.
Sounds Familiar So the Soviet Union was right all along, it is a pathology which can be treated in a psychiatric hospital yeah, you liberals get closer and closer to them each day. What defines the pathology of doing the same thing over and over and thinking that you'll get a different result?
RECYCLING MISINFORMATION ABOUT CONSERVATIVES MORE ON THE BERKELEY ATTEMPT TO SMEAR CONSERVATIVES Frank Sulloway's Other Hypothesis
Re: Sounds Familiar I can't remember the exact terminology, but it manifests itself in massive tax breaks for the wealthy as a tool to grow the economy. It never works.