Posted on 04/07/2015 6:19:47 AM PDT by MayorKoch
It is difficult to define a whole school of political ideology precisely, but one may reasonably define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) in the contemporary United States as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others. In the modern political and economic context, this willingness usually translates into paying higher proportions of individual incomes in taxes toward the government and its social welfare programs. Liberals usually support such social welfare programs and higher taxes to finance them, and conservatives usually oppose them.
Defined as such, liberalism is evolutionarily novel. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be altruistic toward their genetic kin, their friends and allies, and members of their deme (a group of intermarrying individuals) or ethnic group. They are not designed to be altruistic toward an indefinite number of complete strangers whom they are not likely ever to meet or interact with. This is largely because our ancestors lived in a small band of 50-150 genetically related individuals, and large cities and nations with thousands and millions of people are themselves evolutionarily novel...
Incidentally, this finding substantiates one of the persistent complaints among conservatives. Conservatives often complain that liberals control the media or the show business or the academia or some other social institutions. The Hypothesis explains why conservatives are correct in their complaints. Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions. They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.
(Excerpt) Read more at psychologytoday.com ...
That is all one big lie.
Conservatives give far more to charities than liberals.
Gee, and I guess it is not enough for these people to do psychological profiles on ones like Rush Limbaugh or Ronald Reagan and even compare them to Adolf Hitler (as I recall one so called study a number of years back did so). They are just now simply calling liberals more intelligent than conservatives. I’ve heard that one before that if you are not racist or sexist or homophobic or non-progressive, you are just plain stupid. And they need a forum like that to promote that sort of claptrap, sad.
Liberalism is a genetic birth defect:
Researchers find a ‘liberal gene’
Date:
October 28, 2010
Source:
University of California, San Diego
Summary:
Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4. The study’s authors say this is the first research to identify a specific gene that predisposes people to certain political views.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027161452.htm
I went to the link and it provided no proof for the hypothesis.
“in early adulthood”
Consistent with the Churchill adage. “...Show me an old Liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains.”
In the minds of liberals, since they’re always correct, they’re smarter than those who disagree with them. It’s rather elementary.
Yep. Those compassionate libs don’t put their money where their mouth is ......
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html?_r=0
“Researchers find a ‘liberal gene’”
Could be named, ‘The Social Lemming Gene’.
Man the waders it getting deep.
Absolutely no awareness that the money that pays for those institutions is generated by those who have the guts to engage in business despite all the slings and arrows aimed at them.
Am I right, Hobby Lobby? Chik-Fil-A? Up high!
I’ll take wisdom over intelligence any time.
Right.
Brought to us by the same community who is slowly pressing the narrative that pedophilia is really “not such a bad thing.”
Totalitarianism Tomorrow.
25 replies, and I’m IBTZ? Are the mods asleep at the wheel, or just being generous?
But the Left (a.k.a., Democrat-Socialists) no longer identify themselves as “liberals”. They prefer “progressives” which, in a sense is a more accurate descriptor (as in cancer is a “progressive” disease).
IBTZ!
Why is it that every time Leftist ideals are instituted in a revolutionary push, millions of people are slaughtered? Russia (twice), China (twice), Laos, Uganda, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Hungary, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, Korea, etc, etc, etc... more people have died in the last 100 years at the hands of their own new Liberal government than died in both World Wars combined. How does this happen, why is every economy in the aftermath utterly stagnant (or worse), and why do you consider mass murder, mass starvation, and mass purges of educated people to be "intelligent"? Just a thought from my pea brain.
And ALL are massive failures by any metric.
now you are getting it-
liberals are more “hip”
liberals are more welcoming
liberals care more about the world
liberals are just smarter- because they listen to
other liberals—
then there is this about liberals:
liberals mock Christians ,God, and Christ
liberals want you to pay (taxes) for anything “THEY” want
liberals will never- ever proclaim Christ is their Lord-
AND THAT THEY ARE A SINNER that NEEDS TO repent
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