Then liberals end up looking like this...
Posted on 03/22/2006 10:49:59 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
Whiny, insecure brats who cowered with fear of being bullied on the playground grow up to be conservatives, while smooth self-confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grow up to be liberals, according to a new study conducted in the sheltered confines of Berkeley, Calif., the very heart of rabid liberalism.
From the 1960s onward, a husband-and-wife team at the University of California-Berkeley spent 20 years keeping an eye on children from their nursery school days to young adulthood.
According to the Toronto Star, Berkeley professor Jack Block and his now late wife and fellow professor, Jeanne Block, began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality.
The kids' personalities were evaluated and described at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months and were apparently agile in spotting the whiners among them.
With 95 of the subjects grown to young adulthood, Block took another look, checking on their personalities and their political leanings. In the study published in the Journal of Research Into Personality, he says that he discovered that the kids described as whiners when at nursery school age tended to grow up to be conservatives, becoming rigid young adults who adhered to traditional gender roles - you know, the idea that men are men and women are women and there's nothing in between, and were uncomfortable with ambiguity, a trait that is one of the hallmarks of liberalism.
The kids seen as confident during their nursery school days however, turned out to be liberals, becoming easygoing bright, nonconforming adults with wide interests.
Block admits in his paper that liberal Berkeley is not representative of the whole country, a rather obvious conclusion given that Berkeley is about as far-out leftist as any community in the United States. But he insists that the results within his sample are valid, reasoning that insecure kids look for the reassurance provided by tradition and authority, and find it in conservative politics. The more confident kids are eager to explore alternatives to the way things are, and find liberal politics more congenial.
Writing for Tribune Media Services, Jonah Goldberg observed that the single best predictor of partisan affiliation is the political orientation of your parents. "In Berkeley, the most liberal majority-white city in America, most kids are going to be liberal because their parents are liberal. If one or two of the whinier kids turn out to be conservative, it might have more to do with the fact that their parents are whiny conservatives. Heck, if I lived in Berkeley, I might be whiny, too."
And Jeff Greenberg, a social psychologist at the University of Arizona told NPR that "I found (the study) to be biased, shoddy work, poor science at best."
The academics at Berkeley seem to have an obsession with the notion that there's something not quite right with people who don't share their prevailing liberal Marxist worldview. One study that was disgorged from the belly of the Berkeley beast was rightly called the "conservatives are crazy study." It linked Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini all, it now appears, once a bunch of whiny brats.
Goldberg notes that liberal and leftist social scientists have been trying to diagnose conservatism as a psychological defect or sickness and recalls another infamous study by Theodor Adorno that argued that conservatism was little more than a "pre-fascist personality type."
Conversely, according to the researchers, sympathy for communism "was an indication of openness and healthy idealism. Opposition to communism was a symptom of your more deep-seated pathologies and fascist tendencies."
Should I bother asking who funded this wondrous 'research'?
(whine) We do not! (/whine)
I was sure Helen Thomas was going to get a run then...
lol
Sorry but has anyone who has ever worked with a Liberal knows, they are THE Whiners. Always looking for someone to "fix" their miserable lives. Conservatives DO, Liberals Whine about it.
Yeah, hey maybe conservatives are whiney kids... but at least we grew out of it.
In my case it was more like beat out of it. :-)
WHINY KID, ADULT NEOCON? Free Market News Network
Whiny? Crazy? You Just Might Be A Conservative Washington Post
Do conservatives need psychological help? Town Hall
For leftists, junk science `R' us Canada Free Press
Anybody who doesnt see the obvious political swipe in that "study???"
Anybody who doesnt see the obvious political swipe in that "study???"
So how come these clowns took 40 years to do a 20-year study?
I was a bastard kid and was a bully type in school, voted Republican all my life. Guess that destroys their study.
Gotta be talking about neocons, here...
Or they were REALLY high when they wrote the paper. Libs tend to get picked-on more on the playground because they're, well, weird little whiny liberals. True conservatives tend to stand up to the bullies, and aren't afraid to take or administer a whoopin' based on principle.
Yeah, totally. The libs I know are whiny and miserable. I work hard and play hard, and have a smile on my face most of the time.
Liberals are ugly. If I lived in Berkeley I would be whining, too. Look at Bill's chose of women...if that's a liberals chose, then I might as well live next to a circus.
I could sit at any table I wanted at lunchtime after that.
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