[TigerLikesRooster]

So those fear-mongering Global Warming crowds are conservative?

[IGOTMINE]

BOO!

[Question Liberal Authority]

In the wild, animals who don’t react to danger quickly are called “dinner”.

[secret garden]

And they say liberals are the sensitive ones...

[cake_crumb]

...And it’s conservatives that are always running around metaphorically screaming “The sky is falling, we’re all gonna die!!!!!!”?

Horsefeathers.

[Right Wing Assault]

People who are less sensitive to potential threats tend to die from those threats.

I visited SF several times and noticed they seemed deaf. Loud noises didn't faze them! Now I know why.

[DB]

These people are pathetic.

Never ending slander of conservatives.

Tell conservatives, which are the majority, in the military that line... These “researches” are so blinding by their own bias that can’t see past their nose.

[libertylover]

People who are less sensitive to potential threats, by contrast, seem predisposed to hold more liberal positions on those issues.

Well, it's true that liberals never see the threats from communism, islamofacism, illegal immigration, nuclear Iran/Iraq, or "encouraging" lenders to give loans to people who can't pay for them. Maybe it's just that there brains have been fried on LSD and cocaine.

[Right Wing Assault]

"From an evolutionary point of view, an organism needs to respond to a threat or it won't be around for very long. We are not saying one response is more normal than another."

Sounds like he just DID say response to threat is more normal.

[itsthejourney]

Remind me again who it is who’s running around screeching over a PTA/hockey mom.

[cake_crumb]

Wait, I got it: people who DO NOT become desensitized to the murder of innocents have a "high startle response", and retreat into conservatism. Fits the 'facts' they present here, and we all know at least a bit about the benefits AND detrimental effects of desensitization.

[Yardstick]

Liberals are oblivious to the dangers of socialism but are as sensitive as cat whiskers to fascism, which they imagine is hiding around every corner and under their bed. Liberals are able to detect fascism in lapel pins, fireworks displays, tricolored buntings, pride in American athletics, literal interpretation of the Constitution, belief in free markets, dislike of the nannystate, racial colorblindness, going to church, having kids, owning a gun, pride in the military, disliking our enemies, living in states other than NY and CA, posting on FR, etc..

[paudio]

People who startle easily in response to threatening images or loud sounds seem to have a biological predisposition to adopt conservative political positions on many hot-button issues...

If this is true, that explains why liberals are more likely to have the boiling frog experience... Next thing they know, everything--including their lives--is gone.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Every election cycle there are “scientific” stories about how conservatives have less developed brains than liberals.

[Alia]

lol!~ This thread is a hoot; thank you for posting it.

What the authors of the study don't know, obviously, is that it is they who are sitting in the petri dish being studied. It's why they are always screaming: Let me out! Let me out!

[frithguild]

I am shocked! Shocked I tell you!

[stockpirate]

Total and complete Obamacrap!

[Rippin]

So liberals are more likely to be slow to respond, clueless, and insensitive?

[yazoo]

“People who startle easily in response to threatening images”

I definitely startle when I see images of Obama. Frightens the hell out of me.