Though the Science study’s authors cautioned against an overly broad interpretation of their findings, the results suggest that fear leads to political conservatism.
I don't know that this study really pins it down as much fun as it is to suppose so, but it is an interesting question how it is basic differences in perception between people become reflected and magnified into political movements and ideologies.
Yes but the problem is that the word "conservative" has been thoroughly Orwellized. Those today who pretend to be conservative are not real conservatives at all but extreme radicals. A conservative used to be someone who revered the rule of law. Conservatives today are people who sneer at law and seek to derange it at will in order to oppress others. A better term is "right winger", or better yet "wingnut".
You called?
... but they are still cats. - Tommy Douglas
My Goodness a Wingnut sighting. Funny just the other day I was thinking whatever happened to that Wingnut. I miss that Wingnut
OMG, WingNut!! :) :) :)
Yes but the problem is that the word "conservative" has been thoroughly Orwellized. Those today who pretend to be conservative are not real conservatives at all but extreme radicals. A conservative used to be someone who revered the rule of law. Conservatives today are people who sneer at law and seek to derange it at will in order to oppress others. A better term is "right winger", or better yet "wingnut".
*hugs you for your awesomeness*
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Unless that was too forward.
My humblest apologies to Mr/Ms Wingnut. I had no idea. And my thanks to Red Tory Tea Girl. No that's not too forward. An old man needs a hug once in a while.
YAY...WingNut!! how ya been doin, man?
That's Wingnut and Jacob Two-Two both in the same day. It's like homecoming week at babble!
All we need now is John I. Fleming
Or perhaps that guy who was all about optative theatre - whatever that means. It was amusing until it got old.
What about right wing wingnut?
And now we find a right-wing outlook may be linked to a stronger "ick" response:
Did we really need research to tell us that conservatives are twitchy and sweaty?
RNWN = red neck wing nut.
RNWN = red neck wing nut.
You realize, Fp, that this marks an historical precedent on babble, the first mention of redneck that is not a quotation from Deer Huntin' with Jesus!
Greetings to Babbleonians.
I assure you my neck is not red. How could it be with an ascot? Peasant.
I can also assure all of you that conservatives, large or small 'c', are not fraidy cats. The study cited is as grounded in real science as the one from some business school named for a rich guy who threw bucks at a hollowed institution that found organic shoppers are unethical. On second thought, so maybe conservatives are fraidy cats. That's unimportant.
What is important is that real science is the science with findings I like, and junk science is the science with findings I don't like. So when you want to distinguish between real science and junk science, I can help. My doctor has advised me I must give up fried foods. Junk medicine.
Really, my doctor is a quack. I'm certain Humber college does not issue three year diplomas in medicine. Still, he was taking new patients and I needed a family doctor so I signed up. He's done fuck all for my family. We're still entirely dysfunctional. We all got together on the anniversary of my father's passing and went shopping after a brief, greasy breakfast with bacon. Take that doc.
Thank you for asking how I've been. I'm fine. Shortly after my last post on Babble I joined the Canadian Forces and promptly shipped out to Afghanistan and as such I'm now a hero. You may worship me respectfully. I was never actually in any danger as I pushed papers in Kandahar for a major pain in the ass (a joke for the grunts--they laugh at anything that involves rank), but after returning I did travel down the highway of heroes in a white Suzuki Swift without any suspension. Is that any way to treat a hero?
It was never my belief that anyone who went to the 'Stan should immediately become a hero, but it was one way to sell a war (must support the troops, our heroes!) and avoid accountability (are you accusing our heroes of being bad people?) so what the hell. I'm a hero. I always knew I would be. A fortune teller said so one cold July evening down on Lakeshore Boulevard after a night of drinking. Although according to my friend, Dan, she, the fortune teller, was really a seagull eating the fries I dropped just prior to rowfing up my night's investment in inebriation. Dan has always been a liar.
I haven't seen him for months. Not since I started the Church. He was so high and mighty. Ethics, laws, morality, blah, blah, blah ... If I cared about that shit I wouldn't have founded a church! Fuck.
I miss Dan. And not only because he always had the best grass. But mostly.
Anyway, I haven't been around because, well, because I really do admire Stephen Harper. I do. I know that all you guys see is this petty minded mean fuck who could eat lunch while Canadians are fed through a meat grinder but who then rolls over like the submissive mutt he is when he goes to Amerika. That's what I see too. But give the guy credit. He's made it work. He can get the same number of Canadians to go out and vote for him even if he did the dump to end all dumps in their collective bowl of cereal. They would eat it up and declare it the best shit ever and waaaay better than cornflakes.
The Nazi Post's stable of righters would produce a forest of columns touting the nutritional value of Harper's shit comparing it favourably to Ignatieff's nutrionally lacking turd ("Layton's poop all gas," would be the digest headline on page 23). Global Television would do a three part series following Harper's shit as it feeds the hungry mothers and children of developing nations: Doing Doo-Doo for Haiti or something like that.
How does a politician as cold, bloodless, and sexually destimulating as Harper (I'd rather sleep with Thatcher) earn such a devoted, uncritical, lobotomized following? How? I really want to know. I have a church to fill.
Wow.
Think I'll stick with being a plain old red neck.
And, GV, you're right! As an aside, since you seem to really enjoy the Baegeant type of US writer, ever read the Great American Bubble Machine by Taibbi, or check out the Edge of Sports by Zirin?
I'll try and find 'em locally, Fp. What I enjoy is an up-front description of American life with lots of colour(ful language). Uninhibited. Feisty. Challenging authority and the status quo. Really bloody tired of statistics proving Disraeli's point about their leading place in the category of lies, delivered in mealy-mouthed fashion. Yep, the "Bageant type" is pretty attractive about now.
Geez Wingy, I'm almost in tears.
Don't go away again, K?
