"Draft beer straight from the bottle!"
"Brilliant!"
Posted on 03/20/2006 9:38:14 AM PST by Abathar
How to spot a liberal's baby: Look in the dumpster behind the clinic.
Owwwww, great comeback!
The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests.
They may not have started with political biases but they sure ended up with them. Conservatives may see a point to tradition. And what ambiguity are they uncomfortable with? Political correctness? Transgendered people? Saying one thing while doing another? We conservatives call that hypocrisy, not ambiguity.
And those confident, non-conforming liberals? Their wide interests can all be found in the Calendar section of any mainstream newspaper, and their nonconformity is as predictable as a sea of army uniforms. They are all "nontraditional" sheep. They are confident they are correct about everything because they are told so in all mainstream publications and shows.
The scientist admits to a flawed study.
But then it says:
For conservatives whose feelings are still hurt, there is a more flattering way for them to look at the results. Even if they really did tend to be insecure complainers as kids, they might simply have recognized that the world is a scary, unfair place.
Their grown-up conclusion that the safest thing is to stick to tradition could well be the right one. As for their "rigidity," maybe that's just moral certainty.
The grown-up liberal men, on the other hand, with their introspection and recognition of complexity in the world, could be seen as self-indulgent and ineffectual.
"Draft beer straight from the bottle!"
"Brilliant!"
Ultra Mega Projection Barf alert is more like it!!
Um, don't you think the fact that the kids grew up in Berkeley had anything to do with it? If the study had followed kids from Colorado Springs, might it not turn out differently?
Ping!
Here's a study on the personalities of conservatives. Wonder how it compares to our FR survey... We're mostly INTJs, if the test results are correct.
As a joke last Friday I put a drop of green food coloring in each of their evening bottles. Green formula.
Profiling is right on the mark. Can you imagine a study that would have access to individuals from early childhood to adulthood, just so you could compare sociological traits such as "whininess" and their eventual political leaning? Quite frankly, I'm not even sure it could be done with any sort of confidence. Where do they even track such data on students in a way that could be easily retrieved and compared? What happens after the child becomes an adult--how do these researchers inquire about their political side?
I'm raising the BS flag!
And I was a confident, popular teen girl who believed all the MSM lies so was by default a liberal. Wasn't I supposed to be? Then later I married a European and went to live in a socialist country. When our first baby came, my job had coincidentally become redundant, and I found myself being paid $5K a month by the state (for 2 years) as I stayed home with my baby. That's when I became a conservative!
They are the sweetest! I'd kiss 'em even if they WEREN'T Irish!
For conservatives whose feelings are still hurt, there is a more flattering way for them to look at the results. Even if they really did tend to be insecure complainers as kids, they might simply have recognized that the world is a scary, unfair place.
Their grown-up conclusion that the safest thing is to stick to tradition could well be the right one. As for their "rigidity," maybe that's just moral certainty.
The grown-up liberal men (oxymoron alert), on the other hand, with their introspection and recognition of complexity in the world, could be seen as self-indulgent and ineffectual.
He means the ones who bullied the other ones until they cried.
lol good one!
imagine that!
I would also wager quite a lot of denial figured in to the baby liberal mindset... and still does!
Yeah kid you look like you are starving. LOL!!!
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