Interesting. It appears the eggheads performing these types of studies have no understanding that it is conservative Christians and those who hold truly strong to their faiths are the ones who give the most to charity. And, yes, studies have confirmed this conservative vs. liberal giving, showing liberals give little or none to charity.
So, in reality, conservatives not only are more local-social focused, but also more humanity-social focused with their charity than are liberals. It's just that liberals believe all they need to do is identify what their pet charities are and find ways to instead make others give, as long as it's not themselves.
And for all of this, liberals around the world believe conservatives despise everyone not in their own little area.
Democrats look at their situation and think it can only get worse. While Republicans think it can get better.
Someone I know was telling me about a neuroscience lecture they attended. Apparently there it was pointed out that the Republican brain was more oriented to tribal rules, whereas the Democrat brain was more oriented toward rational rules. I am just reporting, not judging.
You don’t need a scientific study to figure this out. Just some good old fashioned common sense. Democrats are insane; Republicans are sane.
This is a pure waste of tax dollars, especially since it has already been proven that Republicans have brains and Democrats do not.
This is not neuroscience. It is simple anatomy: Republicans have a brain and Democrats do NOT.
Democrats suffer from the effects of toxoplasmosis.
I've spent the last two days talking to vendors in the areas affected by Sandy. All of them are doing what they can to minimize the disruption of supplies to us, their customers. I have personally assured those who can't meet deliveries at this time that we will be back buying from them as soon as they are operational. One guy lost him home and his vehicles. Some of his customers had already fled, even though his business was still operational. I told him I knew of some orders in the pipeline which I would shift to him to fill some of that capacity.
The company which I worked for during the Kobe, Japan Earthquake back in 1995 did the same thing. Some of the vendors later told us that it made the difference in their decision to soldier on rather than throw in the towel.
This is how conservatives behave: We allocate opportunity. The Liberal solution would be to buy them out and give them a handout to quit and go on the dole.
And does the report also state that former liberals who finally “got it” (about conservatism) are somehow able to change their brain structure and activity? Sorry, I’m not buying this.
It might have been more accurate to give the questionaires first, then do the neuro studies....then ask about the affiliations. Having each test subjest declare their allegiances prior to the questions and the neuro exams pre biases the test. Another words, I declare I’m a conservative and naturally my “declaration” might cause me to answer the test in different way then I might if I was in neutral mode.
If one truly wanted an objective test, having the subjects first declare their political biases may distort the test.
From reading a few popular works on “neuroscience” its seems to be an attempt to put more scientific “rigor” into psychology. Its basic curriculum generally requires more real math (e.g. calculus), and basic chemistry then the normal “psych” degree.
I applaud the effort in some sense but I don't think it works, particularly well at the undergraduate level. What would you hire a BS in Neuroscience to do? What would you hire a master's level graduate to do? Not everyone is going to get a PhD or even try to get one!
My daughter had some high school pals that jumped into this academic fad. I don't see that they did any better then the old fashioned BS pysch major.
Parents out there in FREEPer Land to me this is another faddish academic trap to get students to go into and end up with no job and gobs of debt! The only people who benefit from this are the Profs ! (I feel the same way about Forensic Science degrees! Fad degrees with very limited hiring prospects made popular by stupid TV cop shows!)
In some ways, I used to think like a Democrat. But then I grew up. I left Junior High behind.
This is such utter hogwash. Simple observation reveals that people change their viewpoints due to life experiences, personal observations, education, etc. throughout their lives.
If our brains were hard-wired in one ideological direction or another, people would rigidly maintain the same viewpoints they were born with. If the findings of this study were true, you wouldn't have any such thing as an ex-liberal Democrat.
I myself am living proof that this study is a bunch of ridiculous pseudo-science.
Democrats = takers; Republicans = makers
Democrats = glass half empty; Republicans = glass half full
The list could go on and on ...
What the ...? Do they really want to go there? Because they are in effect admitting that the brain and its cognitive functions can be affected by genetics-they can’t say it’s possible in one area and not in another. Do they understand that, or will they, as leftists do, ignore that inconvenient fact?
Republicans have working brains. Dimwits are brain dead.
Just as reasonable as believing that the bumps on your skull determine your intelligence and personality.
In seriousness, I would have to say that the main scientist involved in this research has his sun in Virgo 17 degrees square his moon in Scorpio 15 degrees, producing severe lapses in rationality, which is more pronounced with the Sun-Venus conjunction currently taking place in Sagittarius. Not to mention the man’s Pluto problem in Taurus.
republicans THINK, RATS feel...
