I'm not going to say one way or another about that, I do not know. Its just something I've been noticing in various mailing lists, forums, newspapers commentary lists, and blog. I vaguely remember a political psychology study that looked at that issue, but that's about all I remember about it. It would fit with what I know of political psychology (not a dig against Conservatives - Progressives have their equivalent of pure weirdness as well).
Actually when you throw in evolutionary psychology it tends to make more sense. Consider it. For most of our history we lived in small tribal and clan groups with the equivalent of conservatory functions and exploratory functions. The equivalent of the liberal ranged ahead of the others, finding new tings to eat or at least try to. Sort of like "Hey Guys try this plant I just found it tastes interesting." and a lot of the time it turned out to be something beneficial. The other two times the guy dies spitting out green and purple foam. The other guy would say hey wait a minute. Don't eat that you don't know what it does. And he's right a considerable portion of the time. The rest of the time he dies from not eating a plant that prevents scurvy. The liberal looks at the far horizons and says "Cool" the conservative sees the same and says duck - usually after the liberal guy has been carried off by a saber-tooth for not paying attention. You see it duplicated throughout history - The Roman plebes and patricians, the Byzantine Blues and Greens etc. The questions I have related to how this functions with our society, affects how we discuss, think and live. We have an idea on the physical aspects of this, and the long term proclivities or tendencies that are expressed, but not much on how people do express these differences - a behavioral application of neurophysical structure. But that's coming. On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > My standard response to stories like this is to post a link to Teenage > Immigrant Welfare Mothers because it such a stereotypical red herring > to divert attention from real problems. But I've posted her multiple > times before so I'll refrain this time. > > Do you notice how stories like this proliferate anytime Washington > needs a diversion? It's almost as predicable as the "wag the dog" war > or terrorist stories. > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Not surprised, I remember the same sort of thing back in Canada. > > > > BTW Hat, its not that I'm doubting you. Its just seems to be another > story > > to spark outrage by hitting the limbic system in conservatives. That's > why > > I was asking about the numbers. Its easy to find the stories, not so easy > > to find the numbers. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368720 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
