[jagusafr]

“Right now, we don’t know. To discover the links will require lengthy studies of the DNA of people with different political views. Scientists are having a hard time locating the specific genes that cause diseases; it will probably be much harder to find the complex array of genes that affects politics.”

...which, of course, will require government grant money so I can keep from getting a real job as long as humanly possible.

I call Bravo Sierra on the entire notion. Maybe just ‘cause it’s Friday.

Colonel, USAFR

[JOAT]

Perhaps more disturbing is the notion that they would like to catalog DNA and correlate that data with political affiliation.

Does anyone else feel uneasy with this government cataloging DNA?

[Twinkie]

I think you’re probably right about the BS of it all. My husband and I are both extremely conservative, but our son is 43 and still a Democrat. I think he may have to get a belly full of the Obamassiah to come to the same conclusion we did as a result of living through the Carter malaise (nothing like that to put a stop to voting Democrat).

[MrB]

Give me the money for the research.

I’ll show them that anyone that’s a lib after 30 probably hasn’t taken on any other adult duties in his or her life.

[Sudetenland]

No, lemme guess. They found that the more intelligent voters tend to vote Liberal and that degenerate trailer trash scum vote for Conservative values...because...they just don't understand.

More claptrap from academia. They may be less knowledgeable; less informed, but they're more intelligent because...for it to be otherwise would be unthinkable.:-D meh

[muawiyah]

If you have a 40-20-40 situation there's no “complex array” of genes ~ just a couple of genes ~ maybe just a different allele count.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I call Bravo Sierra on the entire notion.

He's not calling for more study. He is saying the evidence from studies supports his belief.

Two things he didn't point out is that the left adamantly supports evolution without Divine intervention. Genetic selection is a requirement to pass on traits. Yet they can't accept the notion that behavior is in part due to the nature of the individual. To them differences are formed purely by nurture which is the opposite to evolution.

The religious right won't accept evolution which pretty much means nature is meaningless. There is no need to determine any cause and effect with traits. It's purely a spiritual notion, nurture. To them for the last 6,000 years we bear original sin no matter how we behave or to any lineage we belong.

I'm inclined to believe nature and nurture both form the basis of our behavior. I read this is what he believes. I suppose if you are inclined to cite this as BS then you fall in the category of the loony left or crazed creationist.

[expatpat]

Hey, I was a liberal prior to Jimmy Carter, now a conservative. Did I change my genes?