Psychologist Thinks Political Preference Is Half Genetic [ Whether you prefer Rush Limbaugh or Keith

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[RightWhale]

The other half is genetic, as is revealed in studies of twins

This part might be interesting. Separated twins, which might be only a small sample, would be the test group.

[Gideon Reader]

Sounds like more bullshit from people who wasted their parents love and education dollars.
Sort of like the useless studies generated on wether premium toilet paper is preferred or better than corncobs in a nation so poor that they have neither corn nor paper.

This study will not replace Natalee in Greta’s heart as a subject for protracted discussion.

[miss marmelstein]

You make an excellent point! How many people change their political stripes (some more than once) before they give up the ghost? More junk science as far as I’m concerned.

[Continental Soldier]

Inclined to agree that political positions are largely genetically determined. But some restrictions and clarifications seem needed here. Young people (teen-agers and early 20’s) are, almost always, liberal, trusting and believing in the premise that people are always good and, left to their instincts, will always do good. For most folks, though, time and life experiences curtail that boundless optimism and teach some of the hard lessons that we are never eager to learn. Disorder and, even, chaos are atmospheres inwhich young people feel free to become what they dream of being. Of course, they are mistaken, but time and life experiences will be their only teachers in that. So, for the young at heart and in years, we can smile and even appreciate that remarkable optimism. But for the over 40 who still holds to his teen-age mind-set, who has failed to learn the lessons that life offers to all of us, who pushes onward wearing his profane T-shirt and his now-greying pony-tail, we can only conclude that he is a case of arrested development, a striver who cannot break out of his dreams and a bunptious and ill-mannered anachronism at his age — in other words, a liberal. :)

[Congressman Billybob]

One more example of an "academic" who issues a "study" that proves what he wants to prove. He claims that the conservatives want a closed structure and simplicity. Hasn't he ever read the Communist Manifesto? Or, if that's too much, how about a history book about Communism or National Socialism?

Correctly and honestly viewed, there is much more "creativity" required in an open, free market economy and political structure, than in any form of totalitarian structure. And yet, the free market is the conservative position.

Congressman Billybob

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[Our man in washington]

Let’s see, my hobbies are writing plays and playing the piano. I guess I could count as creative.

My entire family is liberal. Therefore, according to my creativity and genetics, I clearly am a...

Okay, I was a liberal. But then I started reading Thomas Sowell. Don’t know what gene accounted for that. Now I’m a conservative because conservatism is supported by the facts.

[Paco]

I agree 100%! Secondly, any man that is a liberal is mentally castrated...wait a sec...can you be castrated and nuts at the same time?

[LiteKeeper]

Hogwash!

[I still care]

My guess is it has more to do with birth order. Conservatives are the grownups, the ones who are responsible. They tend to be the older kids.

The younger ones are the babies, and tend to be more “me” oriented and expect others to take care of their mistakes. They are the libs.

That’s at least the way it worked out in my family. I won’t say the youngest is spoiled, because she’s a hard worker, but she did have it easier in many ways and she is also the lib.

[dforest]

Stupid comes in all forms! It is a proven that people can be indoctrinated. It really is not genetic.

[muawiyah]

Something like that ~ what happens is that just before birth the enzymes that act to shut down half the DNA in half your genes turns off most of the brain cells.

This dooms them to become leftards (as they have become known on many websites).

They are elementally stupid, but it's not their fault, still that shouldn't be used as an excuse to not incarcerate them when necessary.

[rhinohunter]

Psychologist Thinks Political Preference Is Half Genetic

Well... we know that liberalism is a mental disorder ... but we still haven't determined whether or not that disorder is genetic.

[hophead]

“leftards”

I like that. Thats one to remember.

[Melas]

Funny how college graduates consider themselves “savvy” political since most of them don’t even know that we are a Deomcratic Republic, cannot name leadership systems in the Senate nor Congress.

Are you suggesting that non-grads are somehow more informed?

[Vietnam Vet From New Mexico]

So Liberalism is a birth defect?

[Sally II]

This is BS. I consider myself more creative and open to new things, rather than ordered, structured, and needing closure. But I also consider myself to be very conservative. I have an older brother who is really uptight and controlling, and he's a hard core Bay Area liberal. The portrayal of conservatives as being structured, etc, and liberals as being creative and more open-minded is nothing more than a pointless stereotype. I just went through some of my old journals, and to make a point here is some dialogue I recorded several years ago. I was invited to a "party" and didn't find out until I got to this place that it was really a tantric yoga workshop.

Person leading the workshop: "Feel the energy in your genitalia. Feel it rooting into the ground. Now step in, turn left, and massage the back of the person in front of you. You can ask the person behind you to massage your buttocks."

Man standing in front of me: "Can you massage my buttocks?"

Me: (laughing)"No."

Man: "Why not?"

Me: (politely) "I'm kind of new to this."

Man: (with air of superiority and aggitation) "So am I. But I like to try new things."

Me: "I like to try new things, too. But massaging your buttocks isn't one of those things."

I think you can get a bit of the core difference between liberal and conservative from this true story. Personally, I don't get the appeal of sitting in a room like that and being told what to do, and that anyone should expect me to rub their buttocks. I feel a little sorry for the liberals that get sucked into this. They do things that are so disrespectful to themselves, and call it being open-minded.

[lonevoice]

Good grief. Where do they get these guys?

[ThomasThomas]

Keith Who?